hopefully i haven’t annoyed anyone with the appearing-and-disappearing moblog entries this afternoon, as i worked on customizing Brandt Kurowski’s moblog.pl a little. it worked fine out of the box, but there were some tweaks to make it do things the way i wanted.

i made the following modifications:

• It can optionally strip a string from the Subject: line of incoming messages — so that one may do something such as mail oneself blog entries, identifying them with a Subject: line tag, which forces procmail to send it off to moblog.pl,
• It allows you to change what end-of-line tag you use, so if you are picky like me you can use

  instead of
  , for example,

• It allows you to trivially change the order of message body and image in the published story,
• It supplies an entry-specific ALT attribute for the IMG tag, using the text of the entry title, and
• It allows you to specify the blosxom story filename suffix, in case you use something other than txt.

nothing was particularly interesting or complex really, but i thought it was possibly worth sharing.

diffs are at http://ziggurat.org/sabrina/perl/moblog.pl.diff; the full script is at http://ziggurat.org/sabrina/perl/moblog.pl.