[[!template id=plugin name=postal author="[[DavidBremner]]"]]
-[[!tag type/useful]]
+[[!tag type/special-purpose]]
The `postal` plugin allows users to send mail to
a special address to comment on a page. It uses the [[mailbox]]
[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. 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 handle updating the wiki to include those
- > posts as they come in. --[[Joey]]
+ a filter to be turned into blog posts. I have
+[written](http://pivot.cs.unb.ca/git/?p=ikipostal.git;a=blob_plain;f=filters/postal-accept.pl;hb=HEAD)
+ a filter that decodes the address and writes the message into an appropriate
+mailbox. The changes are then checked into version control; typically a hook then updates the html version of the wiki.
* work in progress can be
- [cloned](http://pivot.cs.unb.ca/git/ikipostal.git), or
- [browsed](http://pivot.cs.unb.ca/git/?p=ikipostal.git;a=summary)
+ * I would be interested in any ideas people have about security.
+
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