I was quite interested in the concept of mailing tiddlers from tiddlyweb to e-mail addresses. I could imagine several use cases for this - one allowing notifications. For instance I might want to get an email of all the most recent comments added to my blog.

I'm also interested in the idea of emailing/texting my tiddlyweb instance in some format (mahemoff talks about the same concept here albeit he's not necessarily thinking TiddlyWeb) and for it to know what to do with the email it receives and transform it into a tiddler. I'd then need a reply from tiddlyweb saying "yum yum thanks for that tasty tiddler click here to confirm you are who you say you are". When I click that link my tiddler appears. Quite useful if you are away from home -something that Twitter has taught me. I'm not sure if it's just me but since I never have a pen or paper on me and always have a mobile phone, I find myself writing draft text messages with ideas I've just had or things I want to look up when I get home. It would be much better if I could mail/txt that to a location that I've hooked an rss reader into to remind me of things to do.

To create this very tiddler - I would send an email to my tiddlyweb with a subject of "/posts/tiddlers/Mail me a tiddler" (where 'posts' is the bag it goes to) and the body of that email would be the very same as you see when you visit this link. Nice and easy.

Anyway I digress, I've not done the receiving aspect yet, but it turns out sending emails from TiddlyWeb is quite easy - if you have sendmail installed on your server you can try this sendmail.py twanager script for tiddlyweb simply run
twanager <> <> <>
like this:


and it will send you the tiddler from the bag to your email in text format.


Hope this is a good starting point for something even cooler! :)