Jarrod Trainque

17Jul

Test post via email

Posted 3 years, 4 months ago - 2 comments

This is a test post to see if the PHP-based WP Cron will successfully grab an email from my POP3 account, parse it, and then post it to this site via XMLRPC.

If you can read this, then apparently it works!

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2 Comments

  1. Comment by jason — July 29, 2005 @ 10:44 am

    I am having a very tough time getting blog-by-email to work from HTML formatted emails, especially from Outlook 2003.

    Any help would be greatly appreciated!

    -j

  2. Comment by Jarrod — July 31, 2005 @ 7:02 pm

    Hey Jason,

    Happy to help, but I need more info:

    1. What cron script are you using?
    2. What engine powers your site?
    3. Does it work for plain text emails?

    When you say “HTML formatted” I assume you mean non-plain text emails and not emails containing HTML.

    I suspect that HTML formatted email posting to your blog is going to be complicated and messy. I suggest you send your emails in plain text mode (edit--> change mode --> plain text in Outlook 2003, if I recall) and mark up your emails with the HTML you want to appear on your site. (unless, of course, you are running Markdown or Textile, in which case you’d need to mark it up using the appropriate syntax).

    Question: If you are using Outlook 2003, I presume you are at a computer and not mobile? Why not log into your administration and post via HTTP?

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