[Pmwiki-users] Email to PmWiki

Greg Morgan cybie
Mon Jun 7 21:55:37 CDT 2004


I don't think so...  the only time PmWiki is run is when someone visits the
site.  Really, the only way to get any kind of mail checking add-on to work
would be as a CRON job (AT on win32).  This is basically what the current
add on does.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Steven Leite" <steven_leite at kitimat.net>
To: "Patrick R. Michaud" <pmichaud at pobox.com>
Cc: <pmwiki-users at pmichaud.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2004 8:32 AM
Subject: [Pmwiki-users] Email to PmWiki


> I know with the aid of external software it's possible to send message
> to PmWiki (and other programs), but I'm not comfortable with that for a
> few reasons:
> a) may not work on all systems
> b) needs to be configured, not necessarily easy for non-programmers to
> do
> c) not very neat and tidy
>
> I wonder if it's possible to do something similar, but different.
> Similar in that the end result is the same, but different, in that
> PmWiki would (itself) manually check it's own mailbox (rather than
> having the mail forwarded to PmWiki).
>
> Is that possible?
>
> PmWiki (or some add-on) could then check email every hour, or once per
> day, or even every 5 minutes (triggered of course by a pageview).
>
> -S
>
>
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