blog by email without cron

  • eoin

    22 years, 3 months ago

    I haven’t tried this yet with WordPress, but have used it for other content management software: If you don’t have cron, setup a small “submit-this.php” script and forward your emails to that script. On a unix server you can enter say "|/path/to/submit-this.php" into your <i>.forward</i> file as you would put say myrealemail@host.com to have your emails forwarded to the email account you regularly check. Note the “|”, which means you’re piping the email to that file (to be processed and submitted as a blog post if the right conditions are met). If your host uses cPanel you can use “forwarders”, which is under “Mail” in the main config page.

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  • Thread Starter Anonymous

    22 years, 3 months ago

    Oh, I forgot to say why this might be a good idea (obviously if you don’t have cron, but there’s more)… For a start it means you don’t need to store your email username and password in WordPress. It’s only invoked when you actually receive an email in that particular account, not every x minutes/hours/days as set in a cronjob. If you can setup an address (just an alias will do, no need for an “inbox”) for only receiving blog entries – say, blogthis@yourdomain.com – you will only bother the server when there’s actually work to be done. Finally, if I understand the current setup correctly, then it relies on WordPress checking your inbox for new blog-entry emails every so often. My guess is that this might interfere with important stats kept by your email server which tell your email client and people who finger your account “when emails were last checked” and “new emails since last check”.

    uberwald

    (@uberwald)

    22 years, 3 months ago

    i don’t have cron, but I do have an always on home network connection. so I let my home computer hit the php script on a pre-scheduled basis. 🙂

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