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(aran, after discussion, would you please bid for a wiki extension to receive email to an existing article or to create article from it?)
 
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there is an interesting thread [http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/84268?do=post_view_threaded#84268 here] that i would like to reference. I would like to resurrect my email to wiki-article request, and put a bounty on it. I have a big need for this for project management; but i want it to be well-thought out (no spam, users only, etc) aran, would you care to bid for a wiki extension to receive email to an existing article or to create it? --[[User:Phalseid|Phalseid]] 09:15, 25 May 2007 (NZST)
#Overview
 
This [[mailer.php]] transform allows articles to be sent to mailing lists. This page has been set up as an example mail list. The addresses and names are set up in a table as below. For mailer.php to extract the information to send to, the table must use '''<<nowiki>th</nowiki>>''' tags to specify an email and optionally a name column (it detects the columns by the presence of the word "email" and "name" in the '''<<nowiki>th</nowiki>>''' tag).
 
##NOTES:
 
*There is currently a bug which makes articles with outline numbering render incorrectly when emailed.
 
*Ensure that there is only one mail-list table in the article (only the first will be used)
 
*Ensure that there are no other '''<<nowiki>th</nowiki>>''' tags prior to the mail-list table.
 
  
#Articles often sent to the mail-list
 
''Put links to articles often sent to this mail-list somewhere on the page with the list. Edit this page to see the syntax used to generate these links, you can change the email addresses and test for yourself if you like :-)''
 
*[[*code.php|linkmail.php]]
 
*[[*document.php.info|linkmail.php]]
 
*[[*mailer.php.info|linkmail.php]]
 
  
#An example mail-list
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;This needs to be re-written since email-article.php has ben upgraded and changed.
<table border cellpadding=5 cellspacing=0>
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<tr><th>Name<th>Phone<th>Email<th>Notes
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Decided I hadn't quite done enough productivity, so I've extended the email-article to handle mailing to the contact lists.
<tr><td>WICC2<td>845679325<td>me@somewhere.tld<td>Hello World!
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</table>
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There's a few differences to note:
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firstly its not done from the contact list article, but from the email-article link.
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If you're in the postmasters group, then a dropdown of all the items in the "Contact Lists" cat show up.
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Those articles used to be the articles with embeded table, but now that "Contact Lists" cat contains the contact sub-cats - go and have a look and you'll see what I mean.
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If you make up a test mail list like you were asking me to get from div0 you'll be able to test mailing an article to it.
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It's much better this way because all the mailing is now handled by emal-article.php whether its just one address or a list.
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Also for convenience, you can use the , or ; separated list of addresses directly in the email-address field instead of selecting a list (or if you're not a postmaster - might have to limit that)

Latest revision as of 21:15, 24 May 2007

there is an interesting thread here that i would like to reference. I would like to resurrect my email to wiki-article request, and put a bounty on it. I have a big need for this for project management; but i want it to be well-thought out (no spam, users only, etc) aran, would you care to bid for a wiki extension to receive email to an existing article or to create it? --Phalseid 09:15, 25 May 2007 (NZST)


This needs to be re-written since email-article.php has ben upgraded and changed.

Decided I hadn't quite done enough productivity, so I've extended the email-article to handle mailing to the contact lists.

There's a few differences to note: firstly its not done from the contact list article, but from the email-article link. If you're in the postmasters group, then a dropdown of all the items in the "Contact Lists" cat show up.

Those articles used to be the articles with embeded table, but now that "Contact Lists" cat contains the contact sub-cats - go and have a look and you'll see what I mean. If you make up a test mail list like you were asking me to get from div0 you'll be able to test mailing an article to it.

It's much better this way because all the mailing is now handled by emal-article.php whether its just one address or a list.

Also for convenience, you can use the , or ; separated list of addresses directly in the email-address field instead of selecting a list (or if you're not a postmaster - might have to limit that)