[pmwiki-users] Email notification on a page change

[Dominique Faure]

On 3/2/06, Patrick R. Michaud <pmichaud at pobox.com> wrote:
> Replying to myself here as I think further...
>
> First, the Site.NotifyList page contains lines that indicate the type
> of notifications people have indicated they want to receive.  The
> lines look like argument lists to pagelist (even though they're not),
> thus we end up with specifications such as
>
> 1.  Notify Alice of any changes to the site:
>
>         mailto=alice at example.com
>
> 2.  Notify Bob of any changes to pages in the "Books" group:
>
>         mailto=bob at example.com group=Books list=normal
>
> 3.  Notify Carol of changes to any of the pages listed on the
>     "Profiles.Carol" trail:
>
>         mailto=carol at example.com trail=Profiles.Carol
>
> 4.  Notify Dave of any changes to pages in the Skins category:
>
>         mailto=dave at example.com link=Category.Skins
>
> 5.  Notify Carol of changes to any pages that link to her Profiles
>     page, but don't send any messages more frequently than once per day:
>
>         mailto=carol at example.com link=Profiles.Carol squelch=86400
>

[...]

> Comments, thoughts, for anyone who managed to get this far...?
>

Some thoughts:

Providing this or similar features, enhanced with:
* multiple mailto recipient,
* a callback mecanism to allow a page commenting recipe to propagate
user notes into sent mails,
Won't you get something strangely looking as a mailing list manager,
no (cool...)?

Site.NotifyList may/should become another authentication group source.
Has it a meaning to be notified of forbidden/unreadeable page changes?

Dom