I would like to allow comments on ikiwiki pages without CGI.
-I have in mind something like
- * Use a pagetemplate hook
- in a plugin (DONE)
- * 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-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?
-
- * 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 handle updating the wiki to include those
- > posts as they come in. --[[Joey]]
- * work in progress can be
-
- - [cloned](http://pivot.cs.unb.ca/git/ikiperl.git), or
- - [browsed](http://pivot.cs.unb.ca/git/?p=ikipostal.git;a=summary)
-
-
-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. One thing it made me think about is
->> how to encode reference (threading) information. One can of
->> course encode this into local-part, but I wonder if it would be
->> better to use header features of mailto (this could also be an
->> alternative to tagged mail addresses for page references).
->> Various client handling of mailto always seemed a bit fragile to
->> me but maybe I am just behind the times. Most headers are ignored, but
->> pseudo-headers in the body might work. For example:
->>[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
->> world seems to want to add things to the front of it.
->> -- [[DavidBremner]]
->>> Although it is in python, just from reading the Debian ITP, it
->>> looks like
->>> [mnemosyne-blog](http://www.red-bean.com/~decklin/mnemosyne/)
->>> might be an interesting backend to use or at least steal ideas
->>> from :-) --[[DavidBremner]]
+> [[done]], see [[plugins/contrib/postal]]