* add a mailto: url to each page matching some pagespec
(currently every page gets a comment footer)
* this mailto url goes to an address identifying the page (something like
- user-iki-FE653b@host.fqdn.tld). (DONE)
- > I wonder if it would be more or less natural to put an encoded form
- > of the page name in the email address? I'm thinking about something
- > like `wikiname+index@host` or `wikiname+todo+comment_by_mail@host`.
- > The basic transformation would be to call `titlepage($page)` (in the
- > C locale), followed by replacing "/" with "+" (since "/" is not
- > valid in mails). --[[Joey]]
+ user-iki-blog~I\_hate\_markdown@host.fqdn.tld). (DONE)
+ [more details](http://www.cs.unb.ca/~bremner/blog/posts/encoding)
+
* on the mail receiving end, these messages are either deleted, or ran through
- a filter to be turned into blog posts.
-
- - I'm thinking about how the filter should work. Within a
- mail client, or as a batch tool to scan a mailbox? How to interact with version control, if at all?
+ a filter to be turned into blog posts. As a first step, I have
+[written](http://pivot.cs.unb.ca/git/?p=ikipostal.git;a=blob_plain;f=filters/postal-filer.pl;hb=010357a08e9)
+a filter that decodes the address and writes the message into an appropriate
+mailbox. I would be interested in any ideas people have about security.
* the same plugin can check for comments on a particular page next time the wiki
is generated, and add a link. (more or less done)
> If the filter just checks in the posts into revision control, the
- > post-commit hook would haldle updating the wiki to include those
+ > post-commit hook would handle updating the wiki to include those
> posts as they come in. --[[Joey]]
* work in progress can be
Any comments? Write them here or send them to [[DavidBremner]]
+> I don't want to derail this with too much blue-skying, but I was thinking
+> earlier that it would be nice if ikiwiki could do something sensible with
+> mailbox files, such as turning them into a (threaded?) blog display.
+>
+> One reason I was thinking about that was just that it would be nice to
+> be able to use ikiwiki for mailing list archives. But another reason was
+> that it would be nice to solve the problem described in
+> [[discussion_page_as_blog]]. For that you really want a threaded system,
+> and mailbox file formats already have threading.
+>
+> If that were done, it would tie into what you're working on in an
+> interesting way, since the incoming mail would only need to be committed to
+> the appropriate mailbox file, with ikiwiki then running to process it.
+> --[[Joey]]
+>> It is an interesting idea. I like that it uses an arbitrary MUA
+>> as a "moderation" interface. After I killed a debian BTS entry with
+>> clumsy pseudoheader editing I think any
+>> reference info should also be encoded into the address.
+
+The current version of this plugin is now running on my home page. See for example
+[a recent post in my blog](http://www.cs.unb.ca/~bremner/blog/posts/can-i-haz-a-distributed-rss/).
+Unfortunately although the [[mailbox|todo/mbox]] renderer supports threading, I haven't had
+a chance to implement comments on comments yet. [[DavidBremner]]