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[[!template id=plugin name=postal author="[[DavidBremner]]"]]
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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:
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Adds a mailto: url to each page matching some pagespec
(currently every page gets a comment footer)
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This mailto url goes to an address identifying the page (something like
user-iki-blog~I_hate_markdown@host.fqdn.tld).
more details
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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
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.
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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]]
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work in progress can be
The current version of this plugin is now running on my home page. See for example
a recent post in my blog.
Unfortunately although the [[mailbox|todo/mbox]] renderer supports threading, I haven't had
a chance to implement comments on comments yet. --[[DavidBremner]]
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