Title: post with gmail problem
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# post with gmail problem

 *  [pyrrhus](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pyrrhus/)
 * (@pyrrhus)
 * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-with-gmail-problem/)
 * I love the new post by email feature and will use it if some kinks get worked
   out. I use gmail and when I try and post via rich text format the following three
   lines appear at the top of the post.
 * Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
    Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-
   Disposition: inline
 * Posting via plain text format removes these lines but forces a fixed line width.
 * If there are any easy fixes to one of these problems in gmail or wordpress, I’d
   love to hear it, and I’d love to see them resolved in the next version of wordpress.

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 *  [Saurus](https://wordpress.org/support/users/saurus/)
 * (@saurus)
 * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-with-gmail-problem/#post-936059)
 * WP expects email postings to come via a POP3 account. I don’t believe gmail uses
   POP3.
 *  Thread Starter [pyrrhus](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pyrrhus/)
 * (@pyrrhus)
 * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-with-gmail-problem/#post-936186)
 * Oh sorry, I haven’t explained properly.
 * The email account that the website uses as the post address is not a gmail account.
   But the email account that I am sending the emails from is a gmail account.
 * Hence my problem. This whole post by email thing isn’t convenient if I have to
   switch email services and addresses to use it.
 *  [Saurus](https://wordpress.org/support/users/saurus/)
 * (@saurus)
 * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-with-gmail-problem/#post-936249)
 * I understood what you meant:)
 *  [DianeV](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dianev/)
 * (@dianev)
 * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-with-gmail-problem/#post-936260)
 * If WP requires a POP 3 account, and you’re using gmail (which is essentially 
   webmail), you could always download Mozilla Thunderbird.
 *  [Saurus](https://wordpress.org/support/users/saurus/)
 * (@saurus)
 * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-with-gmail-problem/#post-936272)
 * Sure he could, but he says that he doesn’t want to switch email services:)
 *  [DianeV](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dianev/)
 * (@dianev)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-with-gmail-problem/#post-936346)
 * Understood, but then it doesn’t solve his problem. Oh well. 🙂
 *  [drbob-1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drbob-1/)
 * (@drbob-1)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-with-gmail-problem/#post-936416)
 * The problem is not POP3 … the post is getting through, it just contains extraneous
   information. I have the same problem posting from gmail. Could be something gmail
   sends that wp-mail doesn’t filter. Anyone know anyone who understands wp-mail?
 *  [csutoras](https://wordpress.org/support/users/csutoras/)
 * (@csutoras)
 * [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-with-gmail-problem/#post-936567)
 * Try selection to send your emails in Plain Text. Should be options to do so in
   all email services.

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