Kat Hagan

Hmm. Is it opening those links in an email client, or just asking you for an address to send them to? Have you tried emailing one to yourself to see if it gets sent as plain text or not?

Hi lolligag,

Sorry for the confusion. The “incoming” and “outgoing” terminology refers to the perspective of the mail server, not the client. So the “incoming” port is what you use to CHECK mail, whereas the “outgoing” port is the one you use to SEND mail (like, for example, when you configure Outlook to send messages via your company’s email service).

Adding to the confusion, there are different port numbers for the different protocols, as well as for whether or not you want a secure connection. You can think of this as analagous to having multiple service windows in a store, where people who prefer to speak English go to one window, while people who prefer Spanish go to another. The client is basically saying “I want to speak POP3 to you, server”, but if it mistakenly tries to do so at the IMAP window, the client and server will be unable to communicate.

Hope this makes sense. Were you able to get it working with the new settings?

Hi,

Are you sending the emails from an email address that belongs to someone other than the sysadmin? Does that email address belong to someone who has author permissions on the site?

The way the plugin works is, it compares the sending email address to the accounts on the WordPress site, and if there’s a match AND the user in question has posting rights, the author will get set to that person. If there’s not a match, it gets set to the admin (and set as “pending” instead of “published”). My first guess would be that the latter is happening — the email address you’re sending from isn’t getting matched as a WP user.

To double-check, go to the profile for the non-admin user and verify that their email address is the same one you’re sending FROM.

Hi,

What do you have to write in a post to make the syntax highlighting work? You should be able to write the same thing in an email. Let me know if it doesn’t work.

Oh, whoops, I misremembered — that PR (pull request) is for post *formats*, not post types. Apologies for the confusion, I was triaging a bunch of issues/support requests and confused myself.

So, it’s on the list for the upcoming version, but I haven’t gotten there yet. I would definitely appreciate beta testing once I do — I’m in the midst of something else at the moment, but I will answer your email within a couple of days and we can talk about the schedule. I can also give you instructions on how to install and test the beta version of the plugin.

Sorry you’re having trouble! “Error connecting to mail server” DOES in fact mean that the mail server isn’t accepting the connection on the given port — if the username/password was incorrect, it would say so (something like “authentication failure” IIRC).

(Though, I do believe that the mail server doesn’t distinguish between a general authentication failure — e.g., wrong password — and the account not existing.)

What port number are you using? It should be 995 for POP3 and 993 for IMAP, and SSL should always be enabled (Gmail requires it).

Have you tried connecting to your Gmail account from a standalone mail client?

Hi,

First, make sure you’ve enabled IMAP in Gmail. There are instructions here: https://support.google.com/mail/troubleshooter/1668960?hl=en#ts=1665018

Then, use the following settings:
Server: imap.gmail.com
Port: 993
SSL: Yes

For the username, make sure to use your full Gmail address, including the “@gmail.com” part.

Let me know if you still have problems!

Hmm. Do you happen to know what version of PHP you’re using? If you’re on 5.2, upgrading to at least 5.3 might fix this issue.