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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/plugins/contrib/postal.mdwn | 39 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/todo/comment_by_mail.mdwn | 52 |
2 files changed, 40 insertions, 51 deletions
diff --git a/doc/plugins/contrib/postal.mdwn b/doc/plugins/contrib/postal.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..b14c80d3b --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/plugins/contrib/postal.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,39 @@ +[[!template id=plugin name=postal author="[[DavidBremner]]"]] +[[!tag type/useful]] + +The `postal` plugin allows users to send mail to +a special address to comment on a page. It uses the [[mailbox]] +plugin to display their comments in the wiki. + +This plugin is not in ikiwiki yet, but can be downloaded +from <http://pivot.cs.unb.ca/git/ikipostal.git> + +Details: + + * Adds 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). + [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]] + * 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) + +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]] diff --git a/doc/todo/comment_by_mail.mdwn b/doc/todo/comment_by_mail.mdwn index bf934176a..87e57417e 100644 --- a/doc/todo/comment_by_mail.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo/comment_by_mail.mdwn @@ -1,53 +1,3 @@ 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. 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]] - * 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) - - -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]] +> [[done]], see [[plugins/contrib/postal]] |