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1. pramodd
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #
   

   Tasks completed:
   1] Under Options > Writing I have entered following:

   Mail server: pop.gmail.com
   Port: 995

   Login name: [Entered gmail username i.e username@gmail.com]
   Password: [Entered password here]

   2] I then sent an email to test "post by email" to my
   gmail a/c specified in #1 above.

   3] Browser Activation

   I went to http://sitename.com.au/wp-mail.php in Firefox
   [It's a .com.au site and wordpress is installed in root dir]

   Now for the Problem:

   I am getting this error:

   POP3 connect: Error []

   Please help.

   I have read http://codex.wordpress.org/Blog_by_Email and will set up a cron job after post by email starts working.

2. pramodd
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #
   

   It transpires that to use the "Post via E-mail" feature built in to WordPress you have to use a POP3 server that is not running over SSL. Gmail only supports access to POP via SSL.
   Hence, the error message ... POP3 connect: Error []

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