WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Email post to blog http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/email-post-to-blog WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Email post to blog en Tue, 21 May 2013 23:00:14 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 experi3nc3 on "Email post to blog" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/email-post-to-blog#post-264872 Wed, 29 Oct 2008 03:47:31 +0000 experi3nc3 264872@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Thanks to all who pointed to Posterous!!

Cheers, Alex.

]]> vivianpaige on "Email post to blog" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/email-post-to-blog#post-259258 Mon, 13 Oct 2008 19:33:28 +0000 vivianpaige 259258@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ And that won't work here. Notice all the references to wordpress.ORG? This is wordpress.COM http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/please-read-me-first-before-posting?replies=1

]]> grafgone on "Email post to blog" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/email-post-to-blog#post-259252 Mon, 13 Oct 2008 19:07:45 +0000 grafgone 259252@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I found this...

http://codex.wordpress.org/Blog_by_Email

Post to your blog using email
Contents
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* 1 Setting Up Post via E-mail
o 1.1 Step 1 - Create an e-mail account
o 1.2 Step 2 - Configure WordPress to access your new account
o 1.3 Step 3 - Publish Your E-mail Posts
+ 1.3.1 Manual Browser Activation
+ 1.3.2 Automated Browser Activation
+ 1.3.3 WP-Cron Plugin Activation
+ 1.3.4 Cron Job Activation
+ 1.3.5 Procmail Activation
+ 1.3.6 .qmail Activation
* 2 Email Format
* 3 Testing
* 4 Troubleshooting
* 5 Extensions and Add-ons
o 5.1 Enhanced Functionality Hack
o 5.2 Hack E-mail Format

WordPress can be configured to use e-mail to post to a blog. To enable this functionality, you need to:

1. Create a dedicated e-mail account to be used solely for posting to your blog,
2. Configure WordPress to access that account, and
3. Configure WordPress to publish messages from the e-mail account

You can blog by e-mail using most standard e-mail software programs or a Weblog Client -- a program specifically designed to send posts via email.
Setting Up Post via E-mail
Step 1 - Create an e-mail account

1. Log in to WordPress with the administration login you use to administer your WordPress blog.
2. Go to Options > Writing.
3. Read the instructions under Post via e-mail at the bottom of the page. At the end of these instructions, WordPress will suggest three random strings of numbers you may want to use for the login name of the new e-mail account you'll create.
4. Create a new e-mail account on your web host's mail server or a separate e-mail server, using one of the suggested numeric strings (or your own secret word) for the username (also called a "login name"). A mail server receives e-mails on your behalf and stores them for retrieval. Do not use public, free e-mail servers like Yahoo, Hotmail, etc., for this account.
Note: It is strongly recommended that you use a "secret" address - that is, an e-mail account name that is very difficult to guess and known only to you, such as those suggested by WordPress. Any e-mail sent to this address will automatically be posted to your blog. Be aware, however, that some e-mail servers do not allow numbers-only e-mail accounts or....

http://codex.wordpress.org/Blog_by_Email

]]> justjennifer on "Email post to blog" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/email-post-to-blog#post-245619 Sun, 07 Sep 2008 18:56:42 +0000 justjennifer 245619@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ And thank you Nick for pointing us to Posterous!

]]> thesacredpath on "Email post to blog" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/email-post-to-blog#post-245618 Sun, 07 Sep 2008 18:54:55 +0000 thesacredpath 245618@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ @ a4agarwal

Thanks so much for posting the answer here. I know there are a lot of people who are going to be very happy about this.

]]> a4agarwal on "Email post to blog" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/email-post-to-blog#post-245614 Sun, 07 Sep 2008 18:46:33 +0000 a4agarwal 245614@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Hi. I'm Sachin, one of the founders of Posterous. yes, you can use posterous to post to wordpress, both hosted and self hosted. Please email [email redacted] if you have any questions.

]]> justjennifer on "Email post to blog" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/email-post-to-blog#post-245613 Sun, 07 Sep 2008 18:45:28 +0000 justjennifer 245613@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I just emailed them. Hope to have a reply when I wake up tomorrow. Or maybe they'll stop by and answer here. Cheers!

]]> nickmomrik on "Email post to blog" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/email-post-to-blog#post-245574 Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:43:35 +0000 nickmomrik 245574@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ There does seem to be a new service at http://posterous.com/ that uses email and then XML-RPC to post.

]]> flashkube on "Email post to blog" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/email-post-to-blog#post-245571 Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:40:54 +0000 flashkube 245571@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Does WP.com maintain a list of all services that use their API? If not, is there another site that might maintain such a list?

]]> raincoaster on "Email post to blog" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/email-post-to-blog#post-245464 Sun, 07 Sep 2008 07:54:33 +0000 raincoaster 245464@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ None of which I'm aware.

]]> flashkube on "Email post to blog" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/email-post-to-blog#post-245418 Sun, 07 Sep 2008 04:03:38 +0000 flashkube 245418@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I realize there is no built-in mechanism to post via email. But...

Is there a service out there that will do this? There is obviously an API because I can post via flickr. In fact I can even post via email to flickr and they will automatically post that to my blog (but this only works if I'm posting an image).

I currently use twittermail.com to twitter via email. Is there any similar service that will allow me to blog via email to WP.com?

Thanks in advance!

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