[pmwiki-users] Re: Status of Posting to PmWiki Using Email

[John Feezell]

Patrick R. Michaud wrote:

>On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 03:06:02PM -0500, John Feezell wrote:
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>>I remember a discussion, many moons ago, about procedures that
>>could be used to post to PmWiki using a 'markup' in an email that
>>would be sent to a particular email address setup for just that
>>purpose.
>>
>>What's the current status of that process under v2.0beta?  Any
>>documentation available?
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>Tom Hoover had prototyped a system for this in PmWiki v1 and
>had it running on his system, but I don't know that it was
>ever made into a complete recipe.  And it would certainly need
>to be revised for v2 (although it shouldn't be any more difficult
>to do in v2, and could be easier).
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>It will be much easier when PmWiki adds an "insert" or "append"
>action for adding text to an existing page (because one doesn't have
>to worry about simultaneous edit conflicts).
>
>Pm
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Thanks for the reply Pm.  I'll keep a watch out for the new "insert" and 
"append" action items. 

I installed WordPress the other day to explore the blogging world and 
that brought my interest in the subject to the top again.. 

There are a number of different email posting approaches available 
there.  Some of
those might be worth reviewing for ideas that could be applied with PmWiki.

/JF