jeffreyt
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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: End of month front page clearing. Possible?I’m going to try to figure something out. Let me know if you find something.
Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: Permalinks, daylight savings, and email posting issues.Glad I could help!
Jeff
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Email newsletter plugins?Good question. I was looking for the same thing this morning.
I did find a New Subscription plugin developed by seriocomic, but have not tried it yet myself.
Jeff
Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: Permalinks, daylight savings, and email posting issues.Thanks lawtai! Any idea where WP would decide add a few extra spaces to incoming email posts?
Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: Permalinks, daylight savings, and email posting issues.Hey Frank,
It took a little trial and error (mostly error), but I managed to use cronjob on my web hosting site administration panel to get it done.
All you need to do is set up a cronjob to automatically run the wp-mail.php file to check for new incoming mail.The syntax of the cronjob command line can be a little cryptic looking, but some admin panels have standard and advanced setup modes to help newbies. The cronjob command format basically consists of 6 fields separated by any number of whitespaces (excluding newlines). The first five fields are the times that the job is to be executed in this order: 1. Minute [0,59], 2. Hour [0,23], 3. Day of the month [1,31], 4. Month of the Year [1,12], 5. Day of the week [0,7 (where 0 and 7 are Sunday)]. That last field is that path on your host server to the wp-mail.php file.
Here’s how you want to configure your cronjob command line for a simple 10 minute check for incoming POP3 email:
10 * * * * /usr/bin/lynx -source http://www.YOURDOMAIN.com/wp-mail.php
That should do it. You can change the first five fields if you only wish to check for mail by the hour, day, etc.
Hope this helps!
JeffForum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: Permalinks, daylight savings, and email posting issues.I managed to get cronjob working and POP3 emails are now posting. However, I’m getting fairly large gaps between the title of the post and the actual message.
How do I fix this?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Post by Email and Line Breaks…I managed to get cronjob working as well and POP3 emails are now posting, however, I’m getting fairly large gaps between the title of the post and the actual message.
Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: Permalinks, daylight savings, and email posting issues.Ok, thanks to nerdtech’s post, I was able to get the permalinks working. That leaves only the posting directly from a POP3 account problem. Not sure why, but the posts just stay on the server.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Permalink problemsI’m not sure why yours isn’t working, but thanks for posting the .htaccess setup. It helped me get mine up and running.
Thanks again!
Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: Permalinks, daylight savings, and email posting issues.Hey ruckus!
Thanks for the timezone help. That seems to have done the trick as far as showing the correct time goes.
I’m still having a problem with posting to the blog from a POP3 account and the permalinks still don’t work as well. Any ideas there?
Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: Permalinks, daylight savings, and email posting issues.Well, it’s been over 5 hours since my last post and the post that I sent via POP3 to be posted (too many ‘posts’?) on the blog never appeared. I thought it had to do with a timezone thing, but at this point I have no idea. I re-checked the ‘Writing by e-mail’ settings in Admin > Options > Writing and they all look fine.
Any ideas? What about the .htaccess issue with permalinks? Oh, BTW…when I originally tried to paste the permalink code given to me by WordPress into the .htaccess file and crashed the site, I had to delete and create another .htaccess file. The new file is blank and the site is working fine. Is this ok?
Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: Permalinks, daylight savings, and email posting issues.Hi Kim!
I can manually change the ‘Times in the weblog should differ by’ value under in Admin > Options to adjust for daylight savings and get the correct time. However, it won’t adjust automatically. The UTC time is 4 hours ahead of mine and I’m in EST. I tried to use the PHP time function, but couldn’t figure out how to make the ‘I’ work. Simply entering h:I doesn’t work. I get an output of something like 10:0 (with the last zero never changing).
When I activate the timezone plugin, under TimeZone, if the selected timezone (TZ) is left blank (default setting), my timezone reads PDT (which is a -7hr time difference; EST is -5hr). If I change the timezone (TZ) to EST, the timezone offset reads -0500 (which is correct), then when I go back to Options > General the time difference is correct (-5), but the output time is one hour slow because of the UTC time, I’m assuming, which is only 4hr difference.
So what do I do? How can I adjust for this? I tried sending a test message through POP3, but it still won’t post. I’ll leave it there for an hour and see if it appears. I’m assuming that when the time catches up with the sent time, it’ll post.
Thanks Kim!