[pmwiki-devel] MailForm -> EMailForm

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 01:34:36PM -0400, Ben Wilson wrote:
> On 8/9/07, Martin Kerz <martin at kerz.org> wrote:
> > I packed all the cluttered additions to MailForm together and put it
> > in a new package, thus giving up the two seperate recipes MailForm
> > _and_ EMailForm and merged it into one.
> >
> > If there is consent, it would be nice if EMailForm could be linked to
> > from the cookbook page.

The password for most things on pmwiki.org is "quick".  Feel free to
add the recipe.

> > In the meantime I made the MailForm redirect to EMailForm.
> 
> I noticed there was a redirect there before. I prefer that you not
> redirect. 

I agree.  Redirecting (and eliminating the existing content) isn't very 
friendly to those who may continue to choose MailForm for one reason
or another -- instead, put a link on MailForm to EMailForm to indicate
that a newer version is available.

> What I proposed some time back (and ran out of time to support) was
> that PmWiki recipe authors create a unified recipe for mailing, then
> overlay individual recipes (e.g. MailForm and TellAFriend). Then,
> recipes using the unified mailing routine would share. The only push
> back I received on this was "what if the shared recipe changes?"

I should note that the version of mail forms that I'll be
supporting for PmWiki is given by the PmForm recipe, as
demonstrated at

    http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/PmForm
    http://www.pmwiki.org/pmform/PmForm/MailForm

The PmForm system is flexible enough that we could easily 
provide TellAFriend-like address verification capabilities 
on top of the existing mailform capabilities.

This isn't to say there can't be other mailform recipes available,
but PmForm is the one I expect to be using and supporting myself.

Pm