WordPress updates via email (and sending a link from bloglines to wordpress)

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    (@josepo)


    19 years, 2 months ago

    Oh the joy of explaining convoluted things by someone who is not particularly gifted at streamlining. Here goes:

    (1) I setup wordpress 1.5 and got a big smile everyone must get when they start using it and discovering how sweet it is.
    (2) I enabled the option to update the blog thru email — so now I got that working and a cronjob running periodically – — another smile.
    (3) Now here is where I get sad. I logged into my bloglines account and sent an email to the blog to the ‘secret’ email address. The blog posts the content of the email but strips out some components causting the URLs in the original email to appear incorrectly in the post on the blog. What should be a long URL to an external site ends up getting stripped down to http://mydomain.com/wordpress/?p=# — when I click on that link it’s goes to a full page devoted to that post but again the URL schema is all messed up referencing something on my domain.

    I have tried a few things, including activating/deactiving the AutoHyperlink plugin. That doesn’t seem to make a difference. I am not sure if this is some permalink thing (I haven’t messed with that at all)

    Any ideas what the problem is? Or ideas/solutions? Many, many thanks.

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  • horusprim

    (@horusprim)

    18 years, 2 months ago

    I have the same problem using WP 1.52. No one responded to my post either.

    Did you ever find a solution?

    ladysham

    (@ladysham)

    18 years, 2 months ago

    I am having problems with this also. When I run the file wp-mail.php via the browser, I have no problem getting the emails to post to the blog.

    However, when I set up a cron to run the file, I get this:

    /home/sitename/public_html/wp-mail.php: line 1: ?php: No such file or directory
    /home/sitename/public_html/wp-mail.php: line 2: syntax error near unexpected token dirname'
    /home/sitename/public_html/wp-mail.php: line 2:     require(dirname(__FILE__) . ‘/wp-config.php’);’

    Any ideas? This is a very important feature that I need for a particular site.

    ladysham

    (@ladysham)

    18 years, 2 months ago

    I was able to solve my own problem and through I would post the fix.

    After I had set up the email account that will be used to post to the blog, I logged into my server to set up a cron job.

    When you set up a cron job using cpanel, you have to use the absolute path to the wp-mail.php file. Also, (and this is what I didn’t do at first), if you don’t use another program like wget, etc., you have to use the syntax:

    php /full/path/to/wp-mail.php

    Now it works great! Only thing is, my client’s email appends a disclaimer to the end of the emails, so we have to work on that. 😀

    Kelly Ling

    horusprim

    (@horusprim)

    18 years, 2 months ago

    LadySham
    Thanks for the PHP cronjob tip! Every little bit of the puzzle helps.

    Were you able to solve the long url problem discribed by Josepo?:

    “”””(3) Now here is where I get sad. I logged into my bloglines account and sent an email to the blog to the ‘secret’ email address. The blog posts the content of the email but strips out some components causting the URLs in the original email to appear incorrectly in the post on the blog. What should be a long URL to an external site ends up getting stripped down to http://mydomain.com/wordpress/?p=# — when I click on that link it’s goes to a full page devoted to that post but again the URL schema is all messed up referencing something on my domain.””””

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