[pmwiki-users] RFC -- POP3 to PmWiki

[Mark Trumpold]

I¹m new so its probably worth a grain of salt but it sounds good to me


On 4/10/06 2:28 PM, "Crisses" <crisses at kinhost.org> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I want to request comments on doing POP3->PmWiki.
> 
> Would everyone agree with subject->pagename?
> 
> 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.
> 
> It can be:
> Subject: This is the Group.This Would Become The Page Name
> 
> 
> What other in-email directives would be needed?
> 
> 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.
> 
> What about allowing a separate "post by email" password?
> 
> How would one encode the password in the body of the email?
> 
> 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.
> 
> Subject: This is the Group.This Would Become The Page Name
> 
> Body:
> (:postcode IWantMyMTV:)
> (:postauthor XES:)
> !Fire Sale
> Everything on sale!  PmWiki '''''100% off'''''!
> 
>  
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 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.
> 
> 
> 
> 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.
> 
> 
> 
> 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.
> 
> 
> 
> (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).
> 
> 
> 
> Crisses
> 
> 
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