[Moin-user] Import Mails without Need for a Wiki-User

[R.Bauer]

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Mela Eckenfels schrieb:
> Hello,
> 
> I would like to put an archive of a small mailinglist into a
> moinmoin-wiki by using the moin mailimport. Since the list is closed,
> there will be no problems with spam, and so on. 
> 
> After struggeling for a while with the mailimport-setup (The
> documentation which explains that you have to include least an empty 
> "actions_exclude"-Directive to make xmlrpc work, is missing. Or is
> this a 1.7.1 bug?)  I've discovered, only Wiki-Users are allowed to
> send mail to the wiki.
> 
> Now I'm searching for a configuration option to disable the need of an
> wiki-user, for mailimport. 
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Mela
> 

Hi Mela

you can create a user which isn't a normal user e.g. "mailimport" user
and set acl rights write only for this user on the page you want to
import mails.

Enabling xmlrpc and not protecting your wiki for anonymous attacks by
xmlrpc isn't a good idea.

cheers
Reimar





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