[pmwiki-users] RFC -- POP3 to PmWiki

[Joachim Durchholz]

Patrick R. Michaud schrieb:
> So, for example, using (using "(:post:)" and "(:postend:)"
> as sample delimiters until I come up with something better):

Maybe tear lines.
Possibly saying what page the text should go to, on the tear line. 
Someting like

   Hi,
   some new text:
   -- Group.SomePage
   blah blah blah...
   -- Group.OtherPage
   Blah blah blah...
   --
   This isn't added anywhere (no page name on previous tear line).
   Regards, Contributor

This might be a tad too primitive. E.g. tear line commands for setting 
user name and password might be useful.

> One thing that I know would bother me about a POP3 (pull) approach
> would be the delay between the time I send the message and the
> resulting content being posted to the page.  This is especially true
> if the squelch is set fairly high, such as once per hour or so.
> And if the squelch is set low, then that could generate quite a few
> POP sessions (and I don't know how admins would feel about this).

Take a look what the typical mail client does, and duplicate that 
behaviour. If PmWiki does that, it will be seen as just a single 
additional mail client, which might be enough to shoot for initially.

Regards,
Jo