Elecrronic Management And Information Line why not rss feed ? will only need to see its channel key in recieved mail and it will do the rest ex : {channel gang bang at the getto} More function like {invite email@address.ext} {tageule email@address.ext} {op email@adress.ext} {deop ...} list chanel? {channel ?} only admin can do {channel x}{invitw self} even when not in mailing list html most mail client do it transparently just let html go . so one with attachement ------------------------ many busines process use email as workflow the caveat is that it become hard du track discussion if more than two peer are replying at the same time. we need a bot who you trigger with email you can start a discution thread and invite people to it it backup discution you can reply on any recieved email, thing will correct themself possibility to make a pool/form/workflow simple python tool that are called with crontab everytime it check mail if mail then update database foreach discussion updated, send email to every one in mailing list of the thread support file attachment and backup em without duplicate, file are sent only once it should work with already on going discution it should work along all already supported email function header: From Date Message-ID In-Reply-To To Subject Bcc Cc Content-Type Precedence References Reply-To Sender Archived Subject: RE: reply FW: forward WAS: subject changed OT: off topic EOM: end of message in order to work seamlessly with outlook/gmail/thunderbird, it will use people you add in bcc/cc/to and add them to the chat pool , but the email the server send to you is only bcc it could use subject as chat id RE: mean reply, it is how you post message FW: you can forward server discution to someone but it doesnt allow him to reply but if you FW: an email to the bot, he will create a discution WAS: will change discution ID OT: i dont know how to use it EOM: tell to end discution it could handle admin/member/guest using To/Cc/Bcc admin can invite people member can reply guest can only view them