doc/todo/comment_by_mail.mdwn



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]]


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?


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 haldle updating the wiki to include those
posts as they come in. --[[Joey]]


work in progress can be


cloned, or
browsed

Any comments? Write them here or send them to [[DavidBremner]]