Speaking of the WordPress post-by-email support (see yesterday’s post), this is apparently an area of WordPress that is fertile ground for enhancement. Currently (I’m using WP 1.5 beta nightly builds), there doesn’t appear to be any support for multiple or per-post categories. All items submitted via e-mail are assigned the administrator as an author. Author could be determined by looking at the e-mail address in the from box. If the e-mail matches a current user, publish it. If not, put it in “draft” mode. Author could also be set in the body/subject of the message.
Also, the submission is completely un-authenticated. It would seem like it should be possible to incorporate some sort of public/private key encryption (optionally) to allow people to add some security to the process.
Maybe if I just implemented these things and submitted a patch, they’d accept it. Or maybe not. It’s worth a shot.
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