Posting via Email
Configure Weblog
Settings - Post From Email
Import Settings
- Enable posting from email - Select this to make sure your
weblog will check for new email posts.
- Import emails having subjects prefixed with - Only emails
with subjects prefixed with this value will be imported into the blog.
There must be a colon ':' between this value and the email subject
line. A valid email subject would be something like - "POST: This
is a subject."
- Check email every n minutes - Specify the interval
in minutes to check for new posts.
Email Server
Settings
- Protocol - The protocol to use to connect to the mail
server
- Port - The port to use when connecting to the mail server
- Server
- The email server.
- SSL - Specify whether to use SSL when connecting to the
mail server.
- Username and Password - Your login for your email
server.
- Save Password - If unchecked you will be prompted to enter
your username and password whenever Thingamablog connected to your mail
server.
Creating an email post
The subject line in the email must be prefixed with the value you
specify in the email import options E.g "POST". Your subject line
should look like this:
POST: This is the subject line.
You
can also specify which categories the email should be imported into by
supplying a comma separated list of category names after the POST, like
this:
POST in Current Events, Movie
Reviews, Cooking: An interesting documentary all about spatulas.
If
one of your category names contains a comma or a colon, you should
substitute them by using the comma (#&44;) and colon (#&58;)
character entities.
You can delineate the body of the email with parts of the entry. For
example...
$body_start$
Body optionally goes here
$body_end$
$extra1_start$
Text here will be inserted into extra 1
$extra1_end$
$extra2_start$
Text here will be inserted into extra 2
$extra2_end$
$description_start$
Text here will be inserted into the description field
$description_end$
$keywords_start$
Text here will be inserted into the keywords field
$keywords_end$