Post by email problem! Help!!

First of all..i love the plug in. It is exactly what i am looking for and works wonderfully..

..except for one little problem, that is a big one for me!

I post by email often, which is great, because i simply email <img src=”image.jpg”> into the body of the mail, and your plug in takes care of the rest. The problem is, unless I either open the post in my wp-admin, or have it emailed as a draft, and then manually switch it to “published”… the image in the body shows up fine, but the featured image does not.

like i said..if i just simply open the post in admin and update, it becomes the featured image.

is there a way that this can work without having to open the posts?

thanks!

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/auto-save-remote-images/