On the two admin pages “Post By Email : Blog Level Options” and “Post By Email : User Level options”, when it refers to the categories that one can post to, it displays their slugs (“nicenames”). This led me to think that I should include those slugs in the email after “wppbm-categories:”. However, after some investigating found that one needs to type the category names rather than slugs to get it to work.

I went ahead and changed my copies to display the formal category names (rather than slugs) on the 2 admin pages. To avoid confusion, I’m thinking you might want to do the same in future releases. That or change the “post_to_email.php” file to where it works with the slugs rather than the category names.

Thanks again, everything else works well.

Thanks for all your work on this plugin!

-Joe

You are using the right POP3 port for your server aren’t you?

Does your hosting company use Cpanel and if so does it have an “Outgoing Connections Manager”? If it does you might need to configure that to allow POP3 connections to be made.

I’ve been working on this for a couple days now and still can’t get it to work. When I visit to http://www.my-domain.com/post_by-email.php all I get is “POP3 quit: connection does not exist”.

I’ve checked the POP settings over and over and w/ different accounts (incl. external like Gmail), but it’s all the same.

I’m wondering if the Postfix part (instruction #2) is crucial to the POP connection? Due to my hosting, I wasn’t able to implement that. But in my thinking, that shouldn’t matter because the email account is set up just fine w/out it.

I’m not sure if perhaps there is a way to print a more detailed error message that would give me some direction as to where the problem lies?

Any help would be much appreciated!!

I know that Just The Name (a DNS registry company in the UK) support mail forwarding which features a catch all account. Which is basically what we’re doing here – creating a single account that catches anyaddress@your.domain.here and parks it into a single account. That pop3 account doesn’t have to be on your server, it could be anywhere.

WordPress MU (the multi-user/multi-blog version of WordPress) supports a basic post by email feature but it involves each user setting up their account to go out to an external email address and picking up the email. This seems rather “backwards” as it…