[pmwiki-users] is there a mail-archiving script?

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 11:32:25AM -0500, Neil Herber wrote:
> At 2005-02-01  10:10 AM -0600, Patrick R. Michaud is rumored to have said:
> >On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 10:03:52AM -0500, Neil Herber wrote:
> >> Has anyone written a mail-archiving script for PmWiki? Is such a thing
> >> possible? (Anything is possible according to John Rankin. ;-)
> >
> >There was a cookbook recipe for this (written for v1) at
> >http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook-V1/AppendWikiPage .
> >But I suspect it's a little out of date.  We could certainly
> >see about resurrecting it.
> 
> This does exactly what I was looking for, but it has too much Unix "crunchy 
> goodness" (TM) to work on my Windoze box. Not a high priority right now, 
> but would be "nice to have" at some point.

Well, the nice thing about the script is that it doesn't have to be
on the same server as the wiki; i.e.,  you could run it on an external
Unix box somewhere.

> Is it possible to do "command line" access to PmWiki functions? I am 
> thinking about something like calling the Edit action directly and 
> appending a blob of text (an email, say) to the end of a particular page. 
> Use a macro?

This is what the "pmwe" and other scripts have traditionally done--
allow access to page editing from a commandline.

And in order to support comments/discussions in pages there's likely to 
be an ?action=append (or maybe ?action=add) that exists strictly 
for adding content to a page.  A script could make good use of this.

Others have also discussed the possibility of creating an interface to
PmWiki using SOAP/XML-RPC calls, but it hasn't jumped up on my priority
that much (and appears only peripherally in PITS -- I forgot the number).

Pm