Title: Posts by Email Problem Last modified: August 18, 2016 --- # Posts by Email Problem * [neumannu47](https://wordpress.org/support/users/neumannu47/) * (@neumannu47) * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-by-email-problem/) * When an email message posts to the blog, it has broken lines from misplaced hard returns. If I look at the message in WP admin interface, tags have been added by WP. The message was sent to the secret POP account in plain text, so I don’t know where the hard returns are coming from. They were sent from Outlook 2000. Is there any way to correct this problem? Viewing 8 replies - 1 through 8 (of 8 total) * Thread Starter [neumannu47](https://wordpress.org/support/users/neumannu47/) * (@neumannu47) * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-by-email-problem/#post-323802) * Does anyone have a solution to this problem? If I post by email, I have to go into the web interface to remove the unwanted tags, which means that I might as well post from the web. That problem makes post by email worthless. I assume that many people are using post by email successfully. Could someone please explain what I may be doing wrong? * [makemead](https://wordpress.org/support/users/makemead/) * (@makemead) * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-by-email-problem/#post-323803) * I never got it to work in the first place. You’re way ahead of me. 🙂 * [ttech5593](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ttech5593/) * (@ttech5593) * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-by-email-problem/#post-323805) * Yeah me too. Never got it working. My problem is that it only asks for the “mail sever” but with most e-mail systems it’s a POP3 server and SMTP (or what ever it is) server and again it only asks for 1… But that may be just me… * Thread Starter [neumannu47](https://wordpress.org/support/users/neumannu47/) * (@neumannu47) * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-by-email-problem/#post-323815) * If you go to Options | Writing and under Writing by email, enter the domain name of your server where the POP account is hosted, just as if you are setting up an email account in Outlook or Outlook Express. (mail.mydomain.com, or pop.mindspring. com). The login name is the name that allows you to retrieve email. Remember that on a shared server, the login is probably the entire email address, [user@mydomain.com](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-by-email-problem/user@mydomain.com?output_format=md), not just user. The password is the same password that you use to get mail. I use a POP box on the same server, for what it’s worth. There may be problems popping out of Gmail or one of the online webmail services. (Make sure you set up the POP account before starting this process.) That’s all the setup that is necessary. However, email will not be posted to the web unless you do one of three things listed in the documentation. There is a file installed with WP that when you run it, the mail is transferred from the POP box to WP. Unfortunately I cannot find the post at the moment, but I’ll keep looking. * Thread Starter [neumannu47](https://wordpress.org/support/users/neumannu47/) * (@neumannu47) * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-by-email-problem/#post-323816) * The article is at [http://codex.wordpress.org/Blog_by_Email](http://codex.wordpress.org/Blog_by_Email). Look particularly at Step 3. * [ttech5593](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ttech5593/) * (@ttech5593) * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-by-email-problem/#post-323868) * Yeah I tried that but it does not work. What I mean is all I get when I go to wp-mail.php is “There doesn’t seem to be any new mail.” but could the problem be that it needs a name and the e-mail (mail server) ? Thanks… * [tanster](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tanster/) * (@tanster) * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-by-email-problem/#post-323869) * Here are some sample settings. * **First**, set in WordPress > Dashboard > Options > Writing: * Mail server = mail.mysite.com Port = 110 Login name = [abcdef@mysite.com](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-by-email-problem/abcdef@mysite.com?output_format=md) Password = wordpress * **Second**, if it isn’t yet created, create the email account. For me, I do this through cPanel: * 1. Log into cPanel 2. Click the Mail icon 3. Click Manage/Add/Remove Accounts 4. Click Add Account 5. Enter Email = [abcdef@mysite.com](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-by-email-problem/abcdef@mysite.com?output_format=md) 6. Enter Password = wordpress 7. Click Create * **Third**, send an email to [abcdef@mysite.com](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-by-email-problem/abcdef@mysite.com?output_format=md) * **Finally**, run wp-mail.php by viewing it in your browser or via cron. * [ttech5593](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ttech5593/) * (@ttech5593) * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-by-email-problem/#post-323882) * Hmm, nope did that (My host’s 1and1) didn’t work I think it may require a name… Anyone ? Viewing 8 replies - 1 through 8 (of 8 total) The topic ‘Posts by Email Problem’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [email](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/email/) * 8 replies * 4 participants * Last reply from: [ttech5593](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ttech5593/) * Last activity: [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-by-email-problem/#post-323882) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics