[geeklog-modules] Sendmail hack demonstratable

[Wayne Johns]

On Wednesday 12 Feb 2003 11:40 am +8, Tony Bibbs wrote:

Tony 

For our point of view using aliases is by far the easiest approach to 
posting. Our partner the Philippines government Presidents press office 
post to a number of sites. Whilst your method _is_ perhaps the simplest 
for a one site with limited postings if you are to post to 3 or four 
sites each with numerous topics there needs to be a simpler way and less 
top heavy. From our side posting is not always made by a computer 
literate person.

Note: All sites are on the same server but each running under its own 
domain.

Currently we use a program which takes the output from the news database 
and key words within the database decide which site and which category 
each item goes to. 

Site a: may have topics Education, Health and Ecology
Site b: Business, Metro, Political, Health, Education

Yes there is some overlap ....

therefore with an alias and email address it is easier to direct an 
article to the two example sites with:

- email address being unique for the site and topic
- subject being the subject of the story
- text of the email being the story with somesort of setting to  
     automatically decide on the split.

Your approach being generic would make the posting address public and 
available to all registered members and stack the items in the 
submission list. 

I think it is an admirable approach and will work very well - sadly our 
use is different and I am not sure if it would be possible to doctor 
your application to fit our rather customised needs. (I am told php-nuke 
can handle what we need with little alteration - but I am not very 
impressed with php-nuke hence we chose GL as a better tool).

In our case all postings will come from trusted inputers and therefore 
would not require to be approved being safeguarded by origin of poster.

We will install and examine your approach but feel the various lines of 
input at the beginning of the email is open to error, especially by 
those who are not computer literate.

Wayne

> > Topic: Wouldn't this be better just taken from the address and
> > Sendmail alias.
>
> Could. Again managing multiple aliases is a pain.  Instead the command
> "help <submitstory>" should return a list of available topics for you
>
> > I presume the command, username, mode and story would appear in the
> > email body with the first three being on the first three lines.