Wordpress post via email
Posted on 18. Aug, 2008 by Sajith M.R in php
If you know this feature already , skip this article. But i have to ask a single question at the end of this section .
For wordpress version less than 2.3 , Go to Options > writing, and for greater than 2.3, Go to settings > writing
What you have to do is create an email account with pop3 support
You can see the heading “Post via e-mail” there.
Enter your email server (by replacing mail.example.com)
Enter your pop3 port. (110 by default)
Enter your email login and password.
Choose a category to for the email entry posts
Finally Press update option Button
What you have done above is only the settings. For grabbing or pulling the content from email, you need to call/trigger an url.
That url is: http://yourblogdomain/wordpressinstalldir/wp-mail.php
Either you can call it manually. Or you can set up a cron job for that url by call the url using wget or like functions
Another simple mechanism to call this email trigger is use a hidden iframe in your blog template. (anywhere)
<iframe width=”0″ height=”0″ style=”display:none” src=”http://yourblogdomain/wordpressinstalldir/wp-mail.php“></iframe>
The problem with this email posting is , it strips all the html tags before entering into wordpress database.
The is no way to find the attachments from an email.
So I decided to start a wordpress plugin which does the above missing properties. If there is any ‘working’ plugin available, please let me know, so that I can avoid the re-inventing of wheel .
Thanks
Sajith M.R
TheAnand
Aug 19th, 2008
I am sure that will be a nice plugin. I used to have a plugin which automated posting on my blogs, but I needed a few more features on that plugin, will tell you more latr.
WillS
Sep 16th, 2008
Maybe a modification of this plugin meant for emailing picture and movie files:
http://blog.xforward.com/?page_id=65
Modify to allow a broader range of file types? If you get this working please let me know…
Devilish Southern Belle
Oct 23rd, 2008
I can not get post via email to work no matter what I do, and I have tried everything to the letter. It’s frustrating. If you get a new plugin working, I’d love to come try it. I can’t get postie to work, either.
terry
Nov 19th, 2008
I believe this does what you want
http://blog.xforward.com/?page_id=65#download
I am running 2.6.3 and it works perfectly well with plain text emails sent from outlook. I don’t have it working with my mobile yet as the subject line disaplyes errors. However the picture and main content are still displayed correctly. I wrote a help post about this today, hopefully someone will point out a way to correct this.
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/218754?replies=1
rob felty
May 5th, 2009
have you looked at postie?
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/postie
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custom joomla development guy
May 30th, 2009
hoah this will save alot of time
Kai
Nov 12th, 2009
I’m a newb, but perhaps someone can help me. I want to set up my blog to do post via email. I’ve gone to settings > writing and set up post@mydomainname.com
But when I go to http://yourblogdomain/wordpressinstalldir/wp-mail.php though I get:
404 Not Found
The requested URL /wordpressinstalldir/wp-mail.php does not exist.
How should I try troubleshooting? Also I have my blog set up to mydomainname.com/blog Does that mean I should enter in http://mydomainname.com/blog/wordpressinstalldir/wp-mail.php ? THANKS!
Gaby
Mar 4th, 2010
Does anyone know if its possible and how to set up a POST to receive all emails from an address? So that the post itself builds content rather than having a new post each time. Or perhaps this can be done on a page? I am thinking maybe there is a way to tag a category which always posts any content sent to it to the same post? Any ideas appreciated.
Thanks.