Blogging via e-mail – can’t get it to work

  • hgpuke

    (@hgpuke)


    19 years, 8 months ago

    Hi!
    I was very happy to see that I could blog via e-mail with WordPress. My old weblog engine (Movable Type) didn’t support it, so it came as a welcome surprise. So I followed the instructions and put up a “secret” mail account on the server and told wp about it. However, nothing is published when I mail this address. I have looked at the mailbox using Mozilla Mail and can see that the posts actually get to the mailbox, but wp doesnt seem to recognize it, or otherwise is not able to get at it.
    How can I troubleshoot this?
    Brgds,
    Hans-Göran Puke, Sweden

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  • Anonymous

    19 years, 8 months ago

    Make sure the email address you’re “posting” from is the same as one of your registered authors…
    Example: bilbobaggins is one of my users. Has an email address of frodo@blahdeeblah.com in the profile.
    I have to be sure to send an email from the frodo@blahdeeblah.com email address before it’s processed and posted by WP.

    Thread Starter hgpuke

    (@hgpuke)

    19 years, 8 months ago

    Hmm, I didn’t think about that at first. But now I have added all my possible e-mail addresses as authors. At least that is what I think I have done. I suppose that if I add a new user and then click the little plus-mark to move the new user up to the top of the page, then the new user is authorized to write to the blog, isn’t he?
    I’ve sent a couple of test postings after I did this. However, it still does not work. What am I doing wrong? Isn’t there any log to look into to see if wp actually is successfully logging in to the e-mail account? What are the time-intervals that it is logging in?
    Thanks,
    Hans-Göran Puke

    Thread Starter hgpuke

    (@hgpuke)

    19 years, 8 months ago

    One thought just struck me (did it hurt?):
    Obviously if wp is going to be able to check on new e-mail, there has to be a process doing that. But wp is a web-application, right? So how do I go about setting up a daemon that kicks in every now and then? I suppose there should be a crontab entry or something.
    //Hans-Göran Puke

    Thread Starter hgpuke

    (@hgpuke)

    19 years, 8 months ago

    Sorry, I found the documentation. It is working now. Sorry for causing you unnecessary work.

    marksw

    (@marksw)

    19 years, 8 months ago

    So what was the problem? Would be useful to know the mistake in case others have a similar problem 🙂

    Thread Starter hgpuke

    (@hgpuke)

    19 years, 8 months ago

    My mistake was not reading the documentation 😉
    What I missed was that I needed to set up a crontab entry to poll the mailbox every 10-20 minutes or so. If something should be learned from this, it should be that this information should be already in the user-interface where you set up the mailbox details.

    marksw

    (@marksw)

    19 years, 8 months ago

    Cheers.

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