Are there any features so admins can reply/post back to the site by email ie so they can do it by email without logging into Umbraco?
If not, do you think this would be possible, perhaps using a dedicated email address for the purpose? I may look into extending the system to allow for this feature.
If email isn't specifically a requirement you could probably use Umbraco's content channel feature to use MSWord or LiveWriter. Here is a helpful (though old) post on the subject: http://www.nibble.be/?p=13
It wouldnt be hard to add a couple of lines of code to email the admin. The problem is that you need to write a service for the server which listens for emails. From there, you need to tell umbraco to publish or reply etc.
Alternatively, you could also add a link to the email which will shoot off to a url which will do the approving and commenting.
Haha, good man Anthony let me know if you do get round to this, it would be awesome. I chatted with Matt Brailsford as he had worked on a similar feature (post via email) - however he integrated with a service called MailBee:
This way you could post a comment, simply by replaying to a mail with a special replay address (similar to how Basecamp works).
Anyway keep me posted, I may look at implementing something similar down the line - Matt's uses a commercial component so he cannot release the code as open source. I am going to research other potential options and I will let you know if I come up with anyhting. Your link embedding GUID solution sounds pretty fucking awesome too!
Feature Request: Post/Approve comments via email
Are there any features so admins can reply/post back to the site by email ie so they can do it by email without logging into Umbraco?
If not, do you think this would be possible, perhaps using a dedicated email address for the purpose? I may look into extending the system to allow for this feature.
If email isn't specifically a requirement you could probably use Umbraco's content channel feature to use MSWord or LiveWriter. Here is a helpful (though old) post on the subject: http://www.nibble.be/?p=13
Hey Barry
I remember talking to you about this last week.
It wouldnt be hard to add a couple of lines of code to email the admin. The problem is that you need to write a service for the server which listens for emails. From there, you need to tell umbraco to publish or reply etc.
Alternatively, you could also add a link to the email which will shoot off to a url which will do the approving and commenting.
I would do something like this:
eg.
to approve:
http://www.mydomain.com/blog/2011/test-post/comments/?action=approve&guid=someguid&commentId=theCommentId
to comment:
http://www.mydomain.com/blog/2011/test-post/?action=reply&guid=someguid&author=name&webiste=mydomain.com
In fact this sounds like a fucking awesome idea and I think I'll implement it myself :)
Haha, good man Anthony let me know if you do get round to this, it would be awesome. I chatted with Matt Brailsford as he had worked on a similar feature (post via email) - however he integrated with a service called MailBee:
http://www.afterlogic.com/mailbee-net/email-components
This way you could post a comment, simply by replaying to a mail with a special replay address (similar to how Basecamp works).
Anyway keep me posted, I may look at implementing something similar down the line - Matt's uses a commercial component so he cannot release the code as open source. I am going to research other potential options and I will let you know if I come up with anyhting. Your link embedding GUID solution sounds pretty fucking awesome too!
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