David Raynes

I've been reminded and reminded over the last couple weeks that I have not yet released my MovableType email script. So, here is the first part.

Requirements:

• MIME::Parser
• MIME::Entity
• MIME::Head

Download:

• mt-email.tar.gz
• mt-email.zip

Installation:

• Unpack the archive
• Edit mt-email.pl: change the address on line 70 to the email address where you woud like your blog to receive mail
• Place mt-email.pl in your base MT directory
• Create an email forwarder/alias that redirects to the script (e.g. on my CPanel site, I created an Email Forwarder, blog@mt.rayners.org, that forwards mail to "|/home/rayners/www/mt/mt-email.pl")

How It Works:

• Takes the Subject of the email and searches for an entry on your site with that title (exact, case-sensitive match at the moment)
• Uses the mail headers to generate the comment author, email, and URL (for URL, it currently uses a non-standard header X-URL)
• Posts the contents of the email as the comment

Future Plans:

• Email => Entry
• Various forms of authentication (PGP/GPG signatures, Password, other?)

Update (2003-3-31 14:27)

• Added Email => Entry

  To use, send an email to the address you chose, with the subject in the following form

  New Entry: Entry Title

  And add some combination of the following headers to the email you are sending

  X-MT-Pass: password X-MT-Blog-Id: blog_id X-MT-Blog-Name: blog name X-MT-Category: Primary Category|Secondary Category|Other Secondary Category|...

  X-MT-Pass must be there, as well as either X-MT-Blog-Id or X-MT-Blog-Name. Everything else is optional.

  I would like to stress right now that this is not secure. You are sending your MT password in cleartext over email. Admittedly, you are effectively doing the same thing right now when you login to MT via the web. Most likely, this won't be an issue, but I want to be sure everyone is aware of it. I am currently working on adding in digital signatures (via GnuPG/PGP) to the email to verify identities instead of passwords.