Dear CentOS, I have a user group that would like to be able to routinely post (easily) emails to a web site. Must be usable without special training. I have no experience with this. Anyone have a suggestion? LAMP stack installed. Dave -- When a respected information source covers something where you have on-the- ground experience, the result is often to make you wonder how much fecal matter you've swallowed in areas outside your own expertise. -- Rusty Russell
on 14:41 Mon 07 Mar, Dave Stevens (geek at uniserve.com) wrote:> Dear CentOS, > > I have a user group that would like to be able to routinely post (easily) > emails to a web site. Must be usable without special training. I have no > experience with this. Anyone have a suggestion? LAMP stack installed.https://posterous.com/ -- Dr. Ed Morbius, Chief Scientist / | Robot Wrangler / Staff Psychologist | When you seek unlimited power Krell Power Systems Unlimited | Go to Krell!
On 03/07/11 2:41 PM, Dave Stevens wrote:> Dear CentOS, > > I have a user group that would like to be able to routinely post (easily) > emails to a web site. Must be usable without special training. I have no > experience with this. Anyone have a suggestion? LAMP stack installed.you mean, like a web archive of the mails sent to a specific address? you might look at hypermail. this is a hypermail archive of the current month of a discussion list. http://observers.org/tac.mailing.list/2011/Mar/
On Mon, 07 Mar 2011 14:41:03 -0800 Dave Stevens wrote:> I have a user group that would like to be able to routinely post (easily) > emails to a web site. Must be usable without special training. I have no > experience with this. Anyone have a suggestion? LAMP stack installed.I did this a while back (and will probably be doing it again on another project shortly). I just wrote a little program that reads whatever is sent to its email address. It checks for a "password" in the subject line and then formats and embeds the email content on a webpage. While it's not the most secure way of doing things, it's the most painless way I can think of to provide (very) non-technical users with a method to post the local swim meet schedule or whatever. Some of the users who need to be able to update these kinds of web pages don't have their own computers or anything, so this way all they need is access to any webmail service and they can still do it from anywhere. The program is as it exists right now is pretty special-purpose as it has the webpage template and passwords built-in so it's not of much general interest at the moment. Perhaps re-implementing it for this new project is a good reason to break some of that stuff out into config files instead. I also just woke up to the fact that I could simplify it a lot by using procmail to feed the email to it and crank up the program. At the moment I read the mail spool directly and invoke the program with cron, which isn't the best way to do it. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ www.melvilletheatre.com www.creekfm.com - FIFTY THOUSAND WATTS of POW WOW POWER!
On Monday, March 07, 2011 02:41:03 pm Dave Stevens wrote:> Dear CentOS, > > I have a user group that would like to be able to routinely post (easily) > emails to a web site. Must be usable without special training. I have no > experience with this. Anyone have a suggestion? LAMP stack installed. > > DaveThanks. I'll need to sort through this a bit. Frank if you do generalize your work so others can use it will you let us know please? dave -- When a respected information source covers something where you have on-the- ground experience, the result is often to make you wonder how much fecal matter you've swallowed in areas outside your own expertise. -- Rusty Russell