Markmail.org has been shut down
It seems that the markmail.org open source email archiver&#x2F;indexer has been shut down. Recently all web connection requests to markmail.org have failed. I can&#x27;t find any public notice of this anywhere. The MarkLogic developer page for it is still up, but all the links to markmail.org are dead:<p>https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.marklogic.com&#x2F;code&#x2F;markmail&#x2F;<p>One of my colleagues sent MarkLogic an email asking about its status, and he received this reply:<p>&gt; I’m sorry to inform you, but with the acquisition of MarkLogic by Progress, it was decided to shut down MarkMail.<p>(Sorry there&#x27;s no attribution, but this was private email, and I didn&#x27;t want to post names without an official public announcement.)<p>The last time the Wayback Machine successfully indexed markmail.org (at least its home page) was Aug 1, 2023, so this seems to have happened sometime during the past few weeks.<p>I don&#x27;t think there&#x27;s anything to be done about this, but I figured I should let people know. This feels like a great loss to me. I suspect a bunch of open source projects were relying on public email indexers. I also note that quite a number of links in the HN archives -- and probably a lot of other places around the web -- point to markmail.org, and these links are now broken. I don&#x27;t know whether these can be resolved through the Wayback Machine.<p>(Sigh.)