[geeklog-modules] Email Submission of Stories

[geeklog-modules-admin at lists.geeklog.net]

On Wednesday 02 Jul 2003 8:23 am +8,

Our site news.balita.ph uses  'email2gl'  which we had custom written in 
Perl but it does need complete access to Sendmail as it requires an 
entry for each topic in the Sendmail alias file. It is not a plug-in as 
it was built to service a number of sites.

It only accepts input from Admin basically or any user we nominate with 
such access. It does split the story consistantly, check for duplicates, 
truncates the title and if too long writes it as the first line on the 
article and logs each input.

I currently use it on 6 sites, www.balita.org has pictures but I perfer 
to add these after posting the story so the application does not 
currently support pictures or graphics.

Tony's is perhaps more suitable to users who don't have Sendmail access 
as it write items to the submission queue.

Not sure if the author of our would allow it into the public domain as he 
said when I asked I just don't have time to answer problems of other 
users. As I say it was custom writen solely for Balita sites - it works 
for us and the way we want to use it - but may not for others. We have 
posted some 7000 plus articles through it without problem.

Wayne

 geeklog-modules-admin at lists.geeklog.net wrote:
> Bill wrote:
> >Has anyone done, or thought about how to submit new stories via
> > email?
>
> Tony developed something like this a while ago. See "Sendmail hack
> demonstratable" here:
> <http://lists.geeklog.net/pipermail/geeklog-devtalk/2003-February/0000
>82.html>
>
> >In particular I'm interested in being able to email picture shares
> > from my Sprint camera phone and have a server side script parse the
> > email, grab the image and text and create a story out of it.
>
> Okay, images were not included in this hack, but that shouldn't be to
> hard to do.
>
> bye, Dirk