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Re: Mail Notification
by on Tuesday October 24, 07:49PM, 2000
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Hmm...well, one could also set up some mailing list software, then tell squishdot to email all new posts to this mailing list so that they get rebroadcast to subscribers. One could even set up a MailHost script that would allow subscription/unsubscription via a web form; we at Thibsdot track users by their email addresses, so this isn't a big problem. I don't think that part would be too difficult...
But reading stuff in might be a tad more difficult. I guess you could set up a procmail script to automatically invoke some program which would parse the incoming message then simulate the POST to thibsdot. I would, of course, verify that the post is coming from a real Thibsdot user or change the name to "Anonymous Coward" before hand...which means that I'd have to figure out how to generate the user login cookies. I'm not that familiar with the internal workings of majordomo et. al., so I have no clue whether or not this makes sense or is pure rubbish.
Guess I'll go hack around with that and stuff squishdot.org with another posting later.
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Re: Mail Notification
by on Tuesday October 24, 08:34PM, 2000
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See my post below -- I think we're both saying more or less the same thing as far as email notification is concerned -- me under NT (at work, anyway), and you (it seems) under UNIX.
As for receiving, I'm running small Intranet sites behind a firewall, and don't have to worry so much about authentication. If people could initiate a post just by sending me an email with a particular word in the Subject line, I think more people would use the system (my real agenda here). After all, they'd be getting a return notification with a clickable link.
If I want to manufacture postings from incoming emails, than, as you suggest, I just have to parse the data and get it POSTED. I can see already that the Python code (Squishdot.py) has data structures for each of the message parts (title, author, body, etc.), so this can't be that hard to do. I just gotta find the entry point for POST (which can't be that hard either once I find the time).
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