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diff --git a/doc/todo/comment_by_mail/discussion.mdwn b/doc/todo/comment_by_mail/discussion.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..2b32f9d02 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/todo/comment_by_mail/discussion.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +I am moving some of the "settled" discussion here, I hope that is +appropriate. --[[DavidBremner]] + + > 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](http://www.cs.unb.ca/~bremner/blog/posts/encoding) not + >> calling titlepage but in the same spirit. --[[DavidBremner]] + +In response to the suggestion by Joey to process mailboxes into blogs +>> 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](mailto:bremner@somewhere.ca?body=X-Iki-Page:%20test%0AX-Iki-thread:%20foobar). 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]] |