[[!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. 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 a chance to implement comments on comments yet. --[[DavidBremner]]