WikiMail

WebMail that follows Wiki rules (SmartAscii instead of HTML, auto-link Wiki Name occurences)

Interesting issues: which Wiki NameSpace to use (sender's? receiver's? other?), and which markup style to recognize (since there are variations among servers)...

Hmm, reframe it: how about a WikiProxy?

Two non-web approaches:

• if everyone uses the same SmartAscii standard, the sender could author in that, and the EMail Rich Client (e.g. Mozilla) could (a) render to HTML and link Wiki Names, then (b) view the HTML.

  • how should replies work?

    • body becomes the original SmartAscii again

    • how distinguish original lines from reply lines? Make that part of the SmartAscii standard?

• have an SMTP proxy for your EMail Rich Client, which would do the Wiki Name linking and (maybe less important) HTML generation, before sending the message.

  • see Ben Hammersley interest in Mail Bot work.

More along the lines of what I'd call WikiMail would be an IMAP Interface to your wiki. Wouldn't it be cool to have a folder in your mail client which was your wiki page database?

Anyway thanks for the thoughts, on how to integrate wiki into things, I've been thinking about (but not coding) this for a year or two and am excited to see other people working on it as well. --AdamShand (http://www.spack.org)