Sunday, October 29, 2006

Posting by email

If what the Blogger documentation says is true then this message should get published as a blog article automatically. It's a neat idea, and I think it could be quite convenient being able to post from anywhere you can get webmail or wahtever without having to remember your Google account details.

It should (in theory) be possible to implement something like this on Daizu, but it wouldn't be trivial. I'd have to have some program (run from procmail or whatever) which creates a new article and commits it to the Subversion repository. I suppose as long as it had some way of picking an appropriate filename to use, and making sure that it wouldn't clash with anything else, there's no reason why it wouldn't work.

1 comment:

Geoff Richards said...

Well, it worked, but the formatting wasn't great. I editted this in the Blogger UI to get rid of the excess <br> elements. It was a plain text email, but Blogger treats all the newline characters as hard line breaks, so to get something that looks reasonable you have to use a single line for each paragraph.