Wow, sounds great. Are you interested in sharing what you have got so far?
I know what you mean about the archiving. I was thinking about starting small and say only allowing 20 msgs on the front page, move everything else to a sub folder? How are you authenticating the user? Perhaps you are using addresses such as [EMAIL PROTECTED]? You could put some sort of expire flag in the destination address as well, eg username+password+30 for 30 days expiration... This seems to be an easy system to implement, but makes the password somewhat more visible than if we put it in the message body... Also have you considered using IMAP folders? I am thinking of simply letting the user send messages to themselves and then simply dragging them into a subfolder of their IMAP mailbox. Then you simply need mhonarc to scan for new mail every now and then. Archiving simply becomes a case of moving from the "main" subfolder into the "archive" sub-folder and so you can use normal file copy operations... Good idea? Please feel free to contact me off-list if we are able to work together on this. Thanks all (especially for the links to other systems in a previous post) Ed -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Jym Dyer Sent: 28 April 2002 17:34 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Qn about a interesting but slight mis-use of mhonarc > What I have in mind is basically to modify the "index" page so > that it contains all or some of the content from the email. > This way running mhonarc on an inbox will create just an index > page listing the mails and the contents of each mail, and we > should end up with something that looks quite like a weblog =v= Funny, I'm working on exactly the same thing. MHONARC really is ideal for this application. In fact, it makes it an email-updated blog really easy, allows you to do things like add *old* messages to a blog (I've got stuff posted to Usenet in the early 1990s, for example), and of course you get to use any mail application you want, which tend to be far more developed than blogger software. =v= MHONARC doesn't have a means to make an index page, but you can use Perl to do this sort of thing: (1) Parse out the "header" information. You can grab this from <!--X-Subject: ... --> and <!--X-Date: ... --> comments (I cheat and just assume it's all "From: Jym"). Then make a blog-style header. (2) Grab everything from <!--X-Body-of-Message-> through <!--X-Body-of-Message-End--> and put it in the index. =v= I was able to whip together a proto-blog in a few hours. I haven't gone live with it, because I've raised the bar for myself a little higher: I want to make a distinction for my blog that I've seen on no other, between entries that are worthy of archiving and those that are not. That'll take a few more hours, I think. <_Jym_>
