Huh? I’ve just received a couple of “Unauthorized Post Attempt from…” emails to my Gmail account. Am I supposed to set up a specific email account, just for Postie posts? (For example, I’d create a brand new Gmail account with an obscure address – righ8gt7ioru9@gmail.com or something – and anything that gets sent there automatically appears as a post on my site?) Is that how it works?
If so, wouldn’t any spam or other random emails sent to righ8gt7ioru9@gmail.com then get posted to my site?
Some kind of basic setup instructions would be greatly appreciated, please!
– Paul
OK – from searching around various random Youtube tutorials, etc, I’ve got it figured out.
– Paul
You are correct that there isn’t a basic walkthrough on the site, I need to do that.
I did reorganize postieplugin.com site, but the FAQ has the topic “Can I use postie to check a Gmail account?” (http://postieplugin.com/faq/can-use-postie-check-gmail-account/)
The default settings should be a good place to start.
The way it works is that Postie will check the Gmail account from time to time and any emails it finds it tries to turn into a post.
For new sites the issue typically is that WordPress needs traffic to start scheduled tasks like Postie. You can manually check for mail by clicking the “Run Postie” button on the Postie settings page.
If you’re still having difficulties click the “Run Postie (Debug)” button and send the output to help@postieplugin.com
>If so, wouldn’t any spam or other random emails sent to righ8gt7ioru9@gmail.com then get posted to my site?
By default Postie requires the “from” address to match a WordPress user with permissions to post. If you’re really concerned about this you can make the default post status “draft” so nothing gets published automatically.
