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1. Anonymous
   Unregistered
   Posted 4 years ago #

   I was wondering if anyone could help me figure out why my write via email is not working. I have setup a new email account for this, made sure I could login via outlook express, I have sent messages to this email account but it never shows up as a new post. Is there some default time delay or something I am missing? My configuration for this appears to match the email account settings perfectly.
   Thanks
   Bernard

2. jaya
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   you have to execute
   wp-mail.php
   only then will it post the entries you made
   you can set a cron job for this.

3. Anonymous
   Unregistered
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Thanks! I will give it a try!
   Bernard

4. silverbear
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Ok....How do I execute a wp-mail.php file and what, exactly, is a cron job?
   I know that my host allows and provides a pgm for cron jobs, I just don't know what it is. Sorry, but I'm a 'duh!' about a lot of this. It's all new to me.

5. podz
   Support Maven
   Posted 4 years ago #

   The wp-mail.php is executed simply by putting that address into your browser, and going there.
   A 'cron job' is a program that sits on the server and carries out certain tasks at certain times, or it checks for certain conditions and then carries out specified tasks.
   So if you were going on holiday, you could set a cron job for each morning that would check wp-mail.php, and if you had mailed an entry, it would post it to your page.
   Equally, you could set it to check every few hours.

6. Anonymous
   Unregistered
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Ok, I got the wp-mail.php to "say" it has found an email and posted it, but it never really posted it to the web. I can go into wordpress and edit the document and save it, but once again it won't post.
   Suggestions?
   Thanks
   Bernard

7. silverbear
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Podz...did that. I get this error message: Login Failed: POP3 pass: authentication failed [-ERR Username/Password Mismatch perhaps silverbear@yourdomain.com ?]
   Suggestions?

8. podz
   Support Maven
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Silverbear - did you follow the format for posting your entry ? There may have been some sort of error as what you have there is not a wp failure, it's a mail error.
   Bernard - I've not experienced that..

9. Anonymous
   Unregistered
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Podz,
   Thanks for the info, the system is still doing the same thing. What a bummer!

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