Pasi Savolainen

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Writeback/comment notification for blosxom

Got tired with missing all the comments coming into less obvious/fresh parts of this site and made a small plugin.

Here comes... *Fanfares* wbnotify. :) You need working writeback plugin from Rael Dornfest. (And, of course, you must be using blosxom blogging software, as this plugin plugin is for it only)

So, adjust the 'wbaddr' variable to the email address you want receive notifications into, and off you go.

Download wbnotify here: wbnotify.

November 2003 (4¾ years ago) | /code/misc/wbnotify | Comments 8

Comments:

d.w. Nice, thanks...

I've been waiting for someone to make this plugin. :)

Feb 2004 Mike $wbaddr

Don't forget to escape the @ in the $wbaddr variable from perl..

Feb 2004 Pasi Savolainen good catch.

I changed it to the uninterpreted string type.

Aug 2004 K. Marvy!

Thanks for a simple and elegant solution. It just drops in and starts working -- yay!

Jan 2005 Uncle Roger Thanks!

I've added this to my site and it's great!

Oct 2005 Yenya Subject security hole

The plug-in is probably insecure - you are using the writeback's subject before any special characters could be replaced by the writeback plugin itself. So if an attacker adds something with the newline (like the following example) as a writeback title, it can trick wbnotify to send an e-mail anywhere he wants: "something\nCc: somewhere@else.com". The quick fix is to remove the writeback title from the Subject of the mail wbnotify sends.

Nov 2005 Pasi Savolainen version misunderstanding

Previous comment is about version that is no longer distributed, hasn't been in two years, current is safe as far as I know.

Nov 2005 Yenya Sorry for the noise

I had an old version - sorry for the noise (and thanks for the nice plug-in!).