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add contrib plugin page for postal plugin

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Joey Hess 2009-05-21 14:59:21 -04:00
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[[!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]]

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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]]