1 I am moving some of the "settled" discussion here, I hope that is
2 appropriate. --[[DavidBremner]]
4 > I wonder if it would be more or less natural to put an encoded form
5 > of the page name in the email address? I'm thinking about something
6 > like `wikiname+index@host` or `wikiname+todo+comment_by_mail@host`.
7 > The basic transformation would be to call `titlepage($page)` (in the
8 > C locale), followed by replacing "/" with "+" (since "/" is not
9 > valid in mails). --[[Joey]]
10 >> I guess you are right, there is no point being more obscure
11 >> than necessary. I am leaning towards [something](http://www.cs.unb.ca/~bremner/blog/posts/encoding) not
12 >> calling titlepage but in the same spirit. --[[DavidBremner]]
14 In response to the suggestion by Joey to process mailboxes into blogs
15 >> One thing it made me think about is
16 >> how to encode reference (threading) information. One can of
17 >> course encode this into local-part, but I wonder if it would be
18 >> better to use header features of mailto (this could also be an
19 >> alternative to tagged mail addresses for page references).
20 >> Various client handling of mailto always seemed a bit fragile to
21 >> me but maybe I am just behind the times. Most headers are ignored, but
22 >> pseudo-headers in the body might work. For example:
23 >>[test](mailto:bremner@somewhere.ca?body=X-Iki-Page:%20test%0AX-Iki-thread:%20foobar). I hesitate to use the subject because every mail admin in the
24 >> world seems to want to add things to the front of it.
25 >> -- [[DavidBremner]]