Posting Via Email

I’ve read that one user had to download a wp-mail.php file… I think that’s the file name… anyway they had to download it, change it and upload it. But it their case the posts were simply not getting to the blog page. The posts were all ‘Pending’. In my case I’m just not seeing the posts showing up anywhere. Not on the blog page nor in the dashboard under “posts”

OK… I finally go my posts working from an email. Thanks to a couple other posts I found I was able to solve my problem.

My email posts were getting to my WordPress folder just not publishing.

Here’s how I checked to see if my mail was actually getting to my WordPress mail folder.
I pointed my browser at my domain name then put

/wp-mail.php

after the domain name.
So http://www.mydomain.org/wp-mail.php
That returned a page showing ALL of the posts I had made via email.
So this meant the email posts were getting to the WordPress mail folder just not publishing.

I downloaded a new wp-mail.php file from here. and modified it as Crazyoval had recommended.
There were two spots that state ‘post_status = pending’
Change ‘pending’ to ‘publish’
Saved the file then uploaded it via FTP to my wp folder

However… There’s a caveat to this whole method I believe.
Looking at the code in the wp-mail.php file it states that

//Author not found in DB, set status to pending. Author already set to admin. $poststatus = ‘pending’;

I need to check this out but it would appear that this line is a safe guard to keep anyone who discovers your secret email address from getting published to your blog. I believe that what I’ll need to do is setup an authorized user either in my PHPMYADMIN or somewhere in WordPress that has the permission to post to my blog.

I’m considering this thread closed but will post back here if I find that to be true.

WHOO HOOO! Just figured it out. When using this codex in my footer.php file I had to remove the highlighted section of the code.

<iframe src=”http://yourblogdomain/wordpressinstalldir/wp-mail.php” name=”mailiframe” width=”0″ height=”0″ frameborder=”0″ scrolling=”no” title=””></iframe>

So my code now looks like this:

<iframe src=”http://www.mydomain.org/wp-mail.php&#8221; name=”mailiframe” width=”0″ height=”0″ frameborder=”0″ scrolling=”no” title=””></iframe>

I’ve sent a few posts now and they’re working great. I think someone needs to write an article or post about this little hiccup in this Iframe code.

I see what you are saying now. I’m glad as well!