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Plone email gateway proposal

To encourage people to blog more with plone/quills what I think we need is an email gateway, to at least get the content to the site. I've tried to research what other blogging agents do, and it basically appears that a special email account per blog is set up. My proposal is as follows:
  1. Set up a single blog email address for each plone instance (research, verg, dart, hpc,...)
  2. Have each instance check its box at a given periodicy
  3. Each user on the site can set preferences specifying the default blog and categories for email blogs
  4. When an email arrives it is mapped, using the From address to a user, then to a blog and category. Overrides should be allowed, perhaps in the body?
    1. If the message is not signed (PGP, S/MIME) then the blog sits in the drafts to be published. (normal quills interface) Send a reply email with a link to the drafts folder.
    2. If the email is sigend it is published immediately.
  5. If it doesn't map to a user drop the email


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Posted by nigel on 2006-10-15 17:36

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Posted by jc136727 at 2006-10-23 22:13

What about if we use a simple syntax at the end of the email to specify the categories like.

categroies: general, hpc


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