Re: Multi-Blog Alternative?

[Brock Nanson <bnanson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Harshal and Lasar;

Thanks very much for your comments.  You both suggest that I sort the 
messages at the email stage, then let MhonArc do the rest, so I suppose 
that's the way I should look to go.  Movable Type looks like a good 
alternative as well, although a commercial license looks to be 
necessary.  I suppose I should talk to my users and determine which is 
deemed to be the easier method of adding the information.  I like that 
the email method would allow thoughts 'from the road' to be added from 
anywhere.  But the instant gratification of the web interface has its 
benefits too.

Thanks people, I now know that MhonArc is a possible - that was my 
biggest question!

Brock

Harshal Chhaya wrote:

> Brock,
>
> First off, let me say that MovableType (http://www.movabletype.org/)
> handles multiple blogs without requiring multiple installs. There
> may be other packages that can manage multiple blogs too but I have
> used MT to do this and can say that it works.
>
> Now to your question of if MhonArc can do it, It can definitely
> do this with the help of some external scripts. 
>
> If I had to use MhonArc to manage multiple blogs, I would do it
> this way:
>
>
>  
>
> > - email to 'blog@xxxxxxxxxxxx', subject: <jobnumber><actual subject>, 
> > content: <Actual Content>
> > - we use IMAP and maildir's, so this would end up in blog's maildir 
> > folder as a single file.
> >    
>
> I would actually use a script to receive all the email for the 'blog'
> address and then place the incoming email in different dirs based on
> the subject. 
>
> The remaining steps become easier since each blog has its own mail
> store. You can run mhonarc to check all the maildirs and update
> the blogs.
>
> Either of these methods will work. If updating-by-email is preferable
> go with MhonArc. If you prefer updating-through-GUI, MT is the way.
>
> Regards,
> Harshal
>