From 3bd4592326b6e68e046ea2b1195839914868b988 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joey Hess Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 06:12:48 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] web commit by bremner: response to Joey, segue into musing about replacing tagged addresses with pseudoheaders --- doc/todo/comment_by_mail.mdwn | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/todo/comment_by_mail.mdwn b/doc/todo/comment_by_mail.mdwn index 4ed08e929..a1d364f11 100644 --- a/doc/todo/comment_by_mail.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo/comment_by_mail.mdwn @@ -50,3 +50,15 @@ Any comments? Write them here or send them to [[DavidBremner]] > 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. One thing it made me think about is +>> how to encode reference (threading) information. One can of +>> course encode this into local-part, but I wonder if it would be +>> better to use header features of mailto (this could also be an +>> alternative to tagged mail addresses for page references). +>> Various client handling of mailto always seemed a bit fragile to +>> me but maybe I am just behind the times. Most headers are ignored, but +>> pseudo-headers in the body might work. For example: +>>[test](mailto:bremner@somewhere.ca?body=X-Iki-Page:%20test%0AX-Iki-thread:%20foobar). I hesitate to use the subject because every mail admin in the +>> world seems to want to add things to the front of it. +>> -- [[DavidBremner]] -- 2.26.2