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[Steven Champeon <schampeo AT hesketh.com>]

on Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 11:13:21AM -0400, zman wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Ian Meyer wrote:
> > >> email to a specified address and then it posts the body of that mail 
> > >> to a website? Or, if not, how hard would that be to make work, and 
> 
> Shouldn't be to hard. I would think most of it could be scripted. Though I 
> would think one of the Blogging Apps would have this sort of 
> functionality. 

Wouldn't be hard at all, actually. Completely, insanely, ridiculously,
insecure, sure. But not hard to do. Via sendmail's aliases file:

publishthis: "|/path/to/script/that/grabs/and/publishes/the/body"

/path/to/script/that/grabs/and/publishes/the/body
#!/usr/bin/perl

while(<>) {
  $str .= $_;
}
my ($head, $body) = split(/\n\n/, $str);
open(FILE, ">/some/file/on/site") or die "Nope. $!";
print FILE "$body";
close(FILE):

Or something like that, anyway. Make more complex as needed. But know
that this is insanely insecure. Greg Knauss had something like that on
metababy, IIRC.

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