: glog is operational Sun Sep 18 21:54:58 UTC 2005 ok.. it looks like the first "production version" of the gopherlog package is up&running. it consists of * glog.sh, the main script which has a simple frontend similar to mail, and which can also be used in batchmode * mglog.sh, a wrapper for use with procmail, allowing for unauthentified answers to threads * mailcmd.pl in new version, which has now a glog command to allow authenticized creation of new threads via e-mail now this stuff needs to be tested! -Yargo (05-9-18 23:54 HBT) ----- Mon Sep 19 09:23:49 UTC 2005 there was a bug in the mailcmd.pl script; now it seems to work as well so i'll start playing around with it and then i need to write manuals... ----- Tue Sep 20 11:53:58 UTC 2005 i have added a short howto in this directory which should explain the way to reply to a message, and a disclaimer text (just in case...). in addition, the use via mailcmd.pl has been improved. the man pages still remain to be written/modified, though... ----- Tue Sep 20 14:56:35 UTC 2005 : by =?ISO-8859-1?Q?YCBonetti?= yargo@.org So far, everything seems to work fine. The problem is that I don't really feel like publishing a log, so this may just remain a programming experiment. However, I'll try to write manpages for the scripts and make them available on SDF, in case someone else would like to use them for a log. And who knows.. I may get the taste for it! I wonder whether the reply-by-mail is acceptable. Unfortunately, gopherscripts don't run on SDF. One could do a web-version with an entry form, but I prefer the gopher-only type. And, after all, it should be not *that* difficult to open a mailer, copy an id-string, and enter an address (which in addition is fixed). Another funny thing to try could be installation of an RSS feed for the log. This should be quite easy to implement in glog.sh, as it is simply filling a template with the new subject and timestamp. Either all threds would be kept with the id and the most recent entry, or just the id of the latter. However, I'd need to look up the RSS specification... I wonder whether I should add a fmt-pass into glog.sh. I have tendency to write superlong paragraphs, which may be annoying to read with certain gophers. OTH, one should not tamper with the layout chosen on purpose by somebody... ----- Tue Sep 20 15:04:14 UTC 2005 : by =?ISO-8859-1?Q?YCBonetti?= yargo@.org There's another potential problem: The yargo+glog@-procmail script takes the whole message body. Attachments will be appended whatever encoded. I may need to include an "attachment stripper", and (against vandalism) a size limit for glog messages passing through procmail. And I need to add a remark in the howto, that only plain text is acceptable. ----- Wed Sep 21 00:10:17 UTC 2005 the size limit is now implemented (fix at 10kB for the moment) and i added a note about it in the howto -Y. ----- Wed Sep 21 10:12:59 UTC 2005 : by "BONETTI Yargo" yargo.bonetti@.ch i added now 'fold -s -w 77' to glog.sh, so too long lines should be folded at white space. this is not implemented for the last (actual) message; but that is not persistent anyway, so it doesn't really matter, methinks let's check... ----- Wed Sep 21 10:14:09 UTC 2005 yep, that works now! in the meantime, i had a bug in the processing of the incoming mail (as subject and sender can be in whatever order), which is now corrected as well ----- Thu Sep 22 13:07:58 UTC 2005 : by "BONETTI Yargo" yargo.bonetti@.ch this is a test from uni neuch (using outlook web access) -- Yargo C. Bonetti ----- Thu Sep 22 18:01:03 UTC 2005 finally i managed to write some man pages! they are not yet complete, but at least acceptable for having glog.sh in /sys/sdf ----- Wed Jan 4 10:58:46 UTC 2006 : by =?ISO-8859-1?Q?YCB?= yargo@.org Just checking.. There was a small bug in the subject processing. ----- Wed Jan 4 11:08:47 UTC 2006 : by YCB and a check from another external address... -----