1 [[!template id=plugin name=postal author="[[DavidBremner]]"]]
4 The `postal` plugin allows users to send mail to
5 a special address to comment on a page. It uses the [[mailbox]]
6 plugin to display their comments in the wiki.
8 This plugin is not in ikiwiki yet, but can be downloaded
9 from <http://pivot.cs.unb.ca/git/ikipostal.git>
13 * Adds a mailto: url to each page matching some pagespec
14 (currently every page gets a comment footer)
16 * This mailto url goes to an address identifying the page (something like
17 user-iki-blog~I\_hate\_markdown@host.fqdn.tld).
18 [more details](http://www.cs.unb.ca/~bremner/blog/posts/encoding)
20 * on the mail receiving end, these messages are either deleted, or ran through
21 a filter to be turned into blog posts. I have
22 [written](http://pivot.cs.unb.ca/git/?p=ikipostal.git;a=blob_plain;f=filters/postal-accept.pl;hb=HEAD)
23 a filter that decodes the address and writes the message into an appropriate
24 mailbox. The changes are then checked into version control; typically a hook then updates the html version of the wiki.
25 * work in progress can be
27 - [cloned](http://pivot.cs.unb.ca/git/ikipostal.git), or
28 - [browsed](http://pivot.cs.unb.ca/git/?p=ikipostal.git;a=summary)
30 * I would be interested in any ideas people have about security.
32 The current version of this plugin is now running on my home page. See for example
33 [a recent post in my blog](http://www.cs.unb.ca/~bremner/blog/posts/can-i-haz-a-distributed-rss/).
34 Unfortunately although the [[mailbox|todo/mbox]] renderer supports threading, I haven't had
35 a chance to implement comments on comments yet. --[[DavidBremner]]