I would like to allow comments on ikiwiki pages without CGI. I have in mind something like * Use a pagetemplate hook in a plugin (DONE) * add a mailto: url to each page matching some pagespec (currently every page gets a comment footer) * this mailto url goes to an address identifying the page (something like user-iki-blog~I\_hate\_markdown@host.fqdn.tld). (DONE) [more details](http://www.cs.unb.ca/~bremner/blog/posts/encoding) * on the mail receiving end, these messages are either deleted, or ran through a filter to be turned into blog posts. As a first step, I have [written](http://pivot.cs.unb.ca/git/?p=ikipostal.git;a=blob_plain;f=filters/postal-filer.pl;hb=010357a08e9) a filter that decodes the address and writes the message into an appropriate mailbox. I would be interested in any ideas people have about security. * the same plugin can check for comments on a particular page next time the wiki is generated, and add a link. (more or less done) > If the filter just checks in the posts into revision control, the > post-commit hook would handle updating the wiki to include those > posts as they come in. --[[Joey]] * work in progress can be - [cloned](http://pivot.cs.unb.ca/git/ikiperl.git), or - [browsed](http://pivot.cs.unb.ca/git/?p=ikipostal.git;a=summary) Any comments? Write them here or send them to [[DavidBremner]] > I don't want to derail this with too much blue-skying, but I was thinking > earlier that it would be nice if ikiwiki could do something sensible with > mailbox files, such as turning them into a (threaded?) blog display. > > One reason I was thinking about that was just that it would be nice to > be able to use ikiwiki for mailing list archives. But another reason was > that it would be nice to solve the problem described in > [[discussion_page_as_blog]]. For that you really want a threaded system, > and mailbox file formats already have threading. > > If that were done, it would tie into what you're working on in an > interesting way, since the incoming mail would only need to be committed to > the appropriate mailbox file, with ikiwiki then running to process it. > --[[Joey]] >> It is an interesting idea. I like that it uses an arbitrary MUA >> as a "moderation" interface. After I killed a debian BTS entry with >> clumsy pseudoheader editing I think any >> reference info should also be encoded into the address. The current version of this plugin is now running on my home page. See for example [a recent post in my blog](http://www.cs.unb.ca/~bremner/blog/posts/can-i-haz-a-distributed-rss/). Unfortunately although the [[mailbox|todo/mbox]] renderer supports threading, I haven't had a chance to implement comments on comments yet. [[DavidBremner]]