On 2025-06-29 17:39 ICT, Frank Seifferth wrote:
Another alternative would be to use email. You could write a script
Yes, that's an appealing idea!
either via sieve rules or via a cron job – to add those comments to your
Oh, I hadn't considered cron. Or incron perhaps, to avoid polling. About sieve, I vaguely knew that in principle sieve rules can invoke programs. But how to set it up... I found
https://doc.dovecot.org/main/core/plugins/sieve_extprograms.html
which I have to confess looks daunting to me. Deepend (I guess) would have to do the configuring and I'd be useless for help.
Furthermore, by relying on email as the transport medium, the "comment" script mentioned above would automatically work for all tilde.club users.
Users that don't would simply receive comments in their email inbox.
A good feature.
One last note: Commenting in this way would also work just as well for gopherholes and gemini capsules. You would simply change "https" to whatever protocol is used to serve the page in question.
Another good feature! Email has nice features for this, for sure.
Thank you for your thoughts.