I would like to get some feedback on my new Radio tool project before I
unleash it on non-developers.

It is a tool that goes beyond the simple "mail to weblog" that Radio
supports.

In the simple case, an email to a special address with a special subject
gets turned directly into a post to your Radio weblog. Only in this
case it will send a reply email telling you that the post has been
completed, along with some other helpful information.

If, at the top of your message you include a directive that looks like:

#title The title of my Post

your post will have that title.

In addition to the #title directive you can use:

#link (works like providing a link url in the Radio weblog post form)
#id (specifies the id of a post you wish to replace)

When you post a new entry, you will get a reply that tells you what the
post id is. If you specify an #id directive, that post will be replaced
with the contents of the new email. If that id is unknown, it will act
as a new post (I should probably throw an error, but I'm not currently),

If you want to edit a post, but don't want to retype the whole thing
just to fix a typo or provide a title or link, sending a message with
the body:

#get

to the special address (with the special subject, of course), will
return the contents of the latest posting, which you can then edit and
send back.

If you know that the id of the post you want to fetch is 219, a message
of the form

#get 219

will fetch that post, in a form suitable for editing.

If you are interested, the tool is available at:

http://radio.weblogs.com/0100039/gems/mailEdit.tool

Dowload it, put it in the tools directory. There is no prefs UI yet, so
you have to open the tool window, and edit the settings in
mailEditData.prefs.mailPosting directly. It is the same format as
weblogData.prefs.mailPosting, so it should be familiar:

mailEditData.prefs.mailPosting.account is the email account to poll
mailEditData.prefs.mailPosting.ctSecondsBetweenChecks controls how often
the account gets polled
mailEditData.prefs.mailPosting.enabled turns the checking on or off
mailEditData.prefs.mailPosting.password is the password for the email
account
mailEditData.prefs.mailPosting.secretSubject is the subject you need to
use to post
mailEditData.prefs.mailPosting.server is the name of the mail server to
check.

The same warnings given in the mail-to-weblog prefs apply -- all
messages to this account will be eaten, whether they are acted on or
not, so use a throwaway account.

Currently it checks to see if weblogData.prefs.mailPosting.enabled is
true, and if so it will disable itself, because I don't want it to
interfere with normal mail-to-weblog operation, so be sure to turn off
Radio's built in mail-to-weblog function before turning this one one.
If the mailEdit tool turns itself off, this is the reason.

I plan to add category routing and a preferences UI to this tool, but
for right now I'd like to know that it works correctly.

Thanks in advance...

dave