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-FE653b@host.fqdn.tld). (DONE)
I wonder if it would be more or less natural to put an encoded form
of the page name in the email address? I'm thinking about something
like wikiname+index@host or wikiname+todo+comment_by_mail@host.
The basic transformation would be to call titlepage($page) (in the
C locale), followed by replacing "/" with "+" (since "/" is not
valid in mails). --[[Joey]]
I guess you are right, there is no point being more obscure
than necessary. I am leaning towards something not
calling titlepage but in the same spirit. --[[DavidBremner]]
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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.
- 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?
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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
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. 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]]
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