blob: 2b32f9d02e634d3f972a057225b2b38326c3fc44 (
plain)
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
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]]
|