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A comment on the question "Can I submit content to my wiki by email?" in PBwiki:

Yes I'd be interested in being able to update pages in our wiki by e-mail – Sharon M, on May 23, 2008 14:09

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Okay, that was already installed on my PC. I will do some more development and come out with v0.21 that includes that dll in the program file. Sorry for the inconvenience and thank you for trying it out. I'll post back when I fix that problem. – Andrew, on May 14, 2008 17:31

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The tabs were misalligned so sorted that out....but I'm getting a new message now! 'PBwikiAutoUpdate+v0.2.exe - Unable to locate component .....The application has failed to start because LIBEAY32.dll was not found. Reinstalling the application may help fix the problem.' Reinstalled version 0.2 but to no avail! – Seanmac, on May 14, 2008 09:53

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The error message means it doesn't realize you have provided an e-mail address. My only thought would be to make sure you have downloaded the v0.2 program and make sure you have tabs in between each piece of data. – Andrew, on May 14, 2008 09:30

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Andrew, I changed the SSL config. No difference. I also tried my gmail account and I get the same message 'Can't open directory xxxxxxxxxx@googlemail.com xxxxxx pop.googlemail.com 1' – Seanmac, on May 14, 2008 07:43

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Try replacing the 1 with a 0 at the end of the email configuration line. It appears as though your e-mail provider doesn't use SSL: http://help.yahoo.com/l/uk/yahoo/mail/yahoomail/pop/pop-06.html Please let me know how you make out. I am not an expert on security, but with the exception of having a file on your computer containing your e-mail password, I don't think you are exposing yourself to any more risk than using MS Outlook. Someone more knowledgeable may need to comment. – Andrew, on May 13, 2008 17:06

Seanmac replied on May 13, 2008 16:45 to the question "Can I submit content to my wiki by email?" in PBwiki:

Andrew,

I'm liking this, I'm liking this a lot. But .....I can't get it to work. Here is the content of my config file (with some of the content occluded)

PBWiki Auto Update Configuration File
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Wiki Name: "oncallwikitest"
API key: "d2e4ee6eb8286de4a6494032115axxxxxxxxxxxx"
Wiki Content File Name = "wikiContent.txt"
Verbose Mode: "1"
Debug Mode: "0"
************************************************************************
C:\Documents and Settings\Admin\Desktop\Pbwiki\Autoupdate datedesc
XXXXXXXXXX@yahoo.co.uk XXXXXX pop.mail.yahoo.co.uk 1

I'n running XP here. By the way is this secure? I just thought I could be sending someone the password to my email address!! Are you planning to tweak it for 2.0?

Cheers,

Seanmac

A comment on the question "Can I submit content to my wiki by email?" in PBwiki:

I was under the impression that the v2.0 API was read-only, but that is not the case. I will work on updating the script to be able to work with v2.0 wikis. There are still important parts of the 2.0 API that are not yet implemented such as PutFile and DeleteFile, but the e-mail integration parts should be possible to write. – Andrew, on May 13, 2008 16:33

A comment on the question "Can I submit content to my wiki by email?" in PBwiki:

Thanks. I have a 2.0 so I'm out of luck. Nice work though! – thomasv, on May 13, 2008 16:24

Andrew replied on May 13, 2008 15:49 to the question "Can I submit content to my wiki by email?" in PBwiki:

I wrote a little program that will automatically create or update pbwiki pages via e-mail or local files. I wrote this because it was tedious to make changes to MS Word and Excel files and then have to upload the revised file to my wiki every time I made a small change. I also wanted to add e-mail integration to make it easier for people to add content.

You need to have a v1.0 pbwiki site and an API key from PBWiki to use this program. It seems to work okay with my private v1.0 wiki, but won't work with a 2.0 wiki. You can download a Windows program or a perl script if you want it to work with other operating systems.

See http://fredwiki2.pbwiki.com/pbwiki-Au... to get more information.

This is really just a first attempt. It works for me, but there may be bugs so please be cautious. If you find a problem, you can let me know and I will attempt to fix it.

- Andrew

Andrew replied on May 13, 2008 14:22 to the idea "pbwiki Auto Update Program" in PBwiki:

I just added the ability to automatically check an e-mail account and create or update pages. The subject line is used as the page name and the body of the e-mail is the content. The script looks for a user-definable wiki tag in the subject line, strips off the the wiki tag and looks to see if the page exists on the wiki. For example, if "[wiki]" is the special tag, a subject line of "[wiki] Project X Status" would correspond to the "Project X Status" page. If the page doesn't already exist, it creates a new page and uploads the text of the e-mail to the page. If the page exists, the body of the e-mail is appended to the bottom of the page. After a page is updated, the e-mail is deleted.

You could set up the script to run every hour to scan directories and e-mail accounts for updates to the wiki.

The code works for me, but is not extensively tested yet, so I would use it with caution.

You can get it the script or a Windows executable at: http://fredwiki2.pbwiki.com/pbwiki-Au...

I'd be interested in feedback if it works for you.

- Andrew

P.S. David - I'd love to work at PBWiki!

David E. Weekly replied on May 07, 2008 19:48 to the idea "pbwiki Auto Update Program" in PBwiki:

That is totally awesome. Say, you wouldn't be interested in working at PBwiki, would you? :)

Joel Franusic replied on May 05, 2008 21:27 to the idea "pbwiki Auto Update Program" in PBwiki:

Sweet! Thanks for sharing!

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Rachel Pennig replied on May 05, 2008 20:00 to the idea "pbwiki Auto Update Program" in PBwiki:

This is really cool! Thanks for sharing!

Andrew shared an idea in PBwiki on May 05, 2008 19:18:

pbwiki Auto Update Program

I wrote a little program that automatically updates a wiki by synchronizing it with files on your computer. You tell the program which directories you want to upload and then the program uploads all the files in that directory, and creates (or updates) a wiki page with the same name as the directory with links to all the files.

This is useful to me because I want to keep some Word and Excel files updated on the wiki, but I don't like having to go through the extra step of uploading them each time I make a small change.

Limitations: v1.0 developer API enabled pbwikis only.

It is really hacked together, so there are probably lots of bugs, but it seems to work for me okay. If you are a perl programmer, I would be happy for any help or improvements.

You can download the program at: http://fredwiki2.pbwiki.com/pbwiki+Au...

- Andrew

c4rsten replied on February 23, 2008 12:26 to the problem "PBwiki!: administrator login? Guest (administrator)21 mins ago : 'No contact info for this administrator from 79.223.25.202.'" in PBwiki:

Thanx for the help. But that is not an option.
Since your PBWiki is entirely in english none of the coworkers speaks good english and thereby cannot fill out the signup process.
Changing the key doesn't help either, since it seems someone might have given it away. This eventually will/might happen again.
I'll set up my own mediawiki on some free webspace. But really thanx for explaining it all.
It could be such an easy measurement at PBWiki to name guests as guest only and not add the term "admin" or not to allow to signin with an adminkey without a valid emailadress, but it seems PBWiki simply wants more people signing up and not to make those that sign up happy with the functions. I never thought such an advanced system as PBWiki would have a more thoughtthrough securitysystem.

Casey Greene replied on February 22, 2008 20:15 to the problem "PBwiki!: administrator login? Guest (administrator)21 mins ago : 'No contact info for this administrator from 79.223.25.202.'" in PBwiki:

What I meant by that was how you had said it appeared on your wiki - "Guest (administrator)21 mins ago"

Also, anyone who has the Administrator Invite Key (and if you're using a free wiki, that's the only invite key you currently have available) can enter the wiki, as an Administrator, and they don't have to enter their name or email address.

If you think the Invite Key has somehow been compromised, I recommend you change it immediately.

See this conversation on why having your coworkers sign up for a PBwiki Account is the best way to ensure security and accountability: http://getsatisfaction.com/pbwiki/top...

c4rsten replied on February 21, 2008 22:58 to the problem "PBwiki!: administrator login? Guest (administrator)21 mins ago : 'No contact info for this administrator from 79.223.25.202.'" in PBwiki:

"nd if one of your coworkers used that but did not also enter a name/email, they may show up as a guest. "

this is exactly what is NOT happening. They show up as admin.

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