Troubleshooting the basic “post via email” feature

I’m trying to activate WordPress’ post by email feature (since yesterday), and have done the following:

– Created a standalone mailbox for this email with my ISP (unique name and password)
– Added the mailbox name, password and port number to WordPress in Settings/Writing/Post by Email
– set up an email address to put email in that mailbox
– waited 12+ hours for DNS propagation

I’ve sent a couple of emails to the address, but nothing is coming through as posts in WordPress. I’m left wondering:

– Is there any way to troubleshoot this function? Does it generate a log I can check?
– How frequently does the “post by email” service check the mailbox?
– Is there a way to adjust that frequency?

• This topic was modified 3 years, 1 month ago by mattshepherd. Reason: corrected a word (socket -> port)