Jabber
Posting from Jabber. Which works. :-)
I added preliminary support for filters to Hep. You can copy and/or redirect incoming messages to other places besides your Inbox, based on criteria you specify.
I was hoping to finish the configuration UI for filters and protocols, and get a new alpha release of Hep out today. But I ran into some issues last night. First, I learned that the default Jabber server configuration doesn’t like it when a connection sends too many messages in a short period of time (it gives you a bad ‘karma’ rating and stops accepting messages for a few seconds), which was a problem since I had set up a filter to copy all incoming messages to a jabber address. Then I found that Jabber (with the default server configuration) also doesn’t like it when you have more that 5 connections open at a time from a single IP address, which breaks my one-connection-per-destination setup. So I’m going to have to rethink the way the Jabber bot will work.
Also I’m occasionally getting some kind of race condition where Hep uses 100% CPU, which definitely wasn’t happening before.
I’ve been adding a lot of new code to Hep over the past few days, and I think soon it will be time to step back and think about the design a bit before I get sloppy in my rush to add cool new features. I’ll release a new alpha version with all my latest changes early next week. Then I might pause for a week or two, let people do some testing, collect feedback and bug reports and suggestions, get outside and enjoy the fall weather instead of spending so much time coding.
