<!DOCTYPE html> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title>postal (third party plugin)</title> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /> <link rel="stylesheet" href="../../style.css" type="text/css" /> <link rel="stylesheet" href="../../local.css" type="text/css" /> </head> <body> <div class="page"> <div class="pageheader"> <div class="header"> <span> <span class="parentlinks"> <a href="../../index.html">ikiwiki</a>/ <a href="../../plugins.html">plugins</a>/ <a href="../contrib.html">contrib</a>/ </span> <span class="title"> postal (third party plugin) </span> </span> </div> </div> <div id="pagebody"> <div id="content" role="main"> <p><span class="infobox"> Plugin: postal<br /> Author: <span class="createlink">DavidBremner</span><br /> Included in ikiwiki: no<br /> Enabled by default: no<br /> Included in <a href="../goodstuff.html">goodstuff</a>: no<br /> Currently enabled: no<br /> </span></p> <p>The <code>postal</code> plugin allows users to send mail to a special address to comment on a page. It uses the <a href="./mailbox.html">mailbox</a> plugin to display their comments in the wiki.</p> <p>This plugin is not in ikiwiki yet, but can be downloaded from <a href="http://pivot.cs.unb.ca/git/ikipostal.git">http://pivot.cs.unb.ca/git/ikipostal.git</a></p> <p>Details:</p> <ul> <li><p>Adds a mailto: url to each page matching some pagespec (currently every page gets a comment footer)</p></li> <li><p>This mailto url goes to an address identifying the page (something like user-iki-blog~I_hate_markdown@host.fqdn.tld). <a href="http://www.cs.unb.ca/~bremner/blog/posts/encoding">more details</a> </p></li> <li><p>on the mail receiving end, these messages are either deleted, or ran through a filter to be turned into blog posts. I have <a href="http://pivot.cs.unb.ca/git/?p=ikipostal.git;a=blob_plain;f=filters/postal-accept.pl;hb=HEAD">written</a> 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.</p></li> <li><p>work in progress can be </p> <ul> <li><a href="http://pivot.cs.unb.ca/git/ikipostal.git">cloned</a>, or </li> <li><p><a href="http://pivot.cs.unb.ca/git/?p=ikipostal.git;a=summary">browsed</a></p></li> <li><p>I would be interested in any ideas people have about security.</p></li> </ul></li> </ul> <p>The current version of this plugin is now running on my home page. See for example <a href="http://www.cs.unb.ca/~bremner/blog/posts/can-i-haz-a-distributed-rss/">a recent post in my blog</a>. <br /> Unfortunately although the <span class="createlink">mailbox</span> renderer supports threading, I haven't had a chance to implement comments on comments yet. --<span class="createlink">DavidBremner</span></p> </div> </div> <div id="footer" class="pagefooter" role="contentinfo"> <div id="pageinfo"> <div class="tags"> Tags: <a href="../type/special-purpose.html" rel="tag">type/special-purpose</a> </div> <div class="pagedate"> Last edited <span class="date">Tue Feb 26 23:01:54 2019</span> <!-- Created <span class="date">Tue Feb 26 23:01:54 2019</span> --> </div> </div> <!-- from ikiwiki --> </div> </div> </body> </html>