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On 4/10/06 2:28 PM, "Crisses" <crisses@kinhost.org> wrote:<BR>
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I want to request comments on doing POP3->PmWiki.<BR>
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Would everyone agree with subject->pagename?<BR>
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How would one specify what group to put the email in? I would probably have to make it so the admin can override and force all emails into a group -- but also allow the group to be specified by email.<BR>
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It can be:<BR>
Subject: This is the Group.This Would Become The Page Name<BR>
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What other in-email directives would be needed?<BR>
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I can set it up to auto-recognize username from the email when email addresses are AVAILABLE (such as in the AuthUserDbase extension I wrote). But then what about password? no one wants their password floating around in a plain-text email.<BR>
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What about allowing a separate "post by email" password?<BR>
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How would one encode the password in the body of the email?<BR>
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I would recommend that the email address that posts go to NEVER be put on a web page. Otherwise you'll have a lot of spam in the wiki from spammail. However, it could require a posting code in the email as well.<BR>
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Subject: This is the Group.This Would Become The Page Name<BR>
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Body:<BR>
(:postcode IWantMyMTV:)<BR>
(:postauthor XES:)<BR>
!Fire Sale<BR>
Everything on sale! PmWiki '''''100% off'''''!<BR>
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The plan is that if I do this, I will be using a PHP pop3 module for PmWiki. At most, it can be called every time PmWiki is run. I can have it "squelch" checking POP3 so that you can have a minimum time between email calls. I can't rely on people having PHP CLI access, cron, procmail, fetchmail, etc. so I will probably limit the max number of emails it can process each time PmWiki is run.<BR>
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If someone has a better idea, or a way of forking the process to be separate from the HTTP browser-called PmWiki process, I would appreciate knowing, but I'm trying to see if it's feasible to do this in a way that is system-agnostic.<BR>
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It's possible I can make this able to be run both PHP-CLI and via config.php in PmWiki, so that people have that choice. In fact, that would probably be best.<BR>
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(anyone who does not know -- PHP-CLI means command line interface -- that makes PHP a system scripting language, and can process code without a browser. It means that you can set up a scheduled call to the script to pull down emails, rather than needing a user with a browser, along with the delay associated with waiting for the POP3 check waiting for the next Wiki page to load).<BR>
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