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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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