I'm sure this is probably a "me" issue and not a program issue, but hopefully someone can figure it out.
Is there any way to know if I put all the e-mail configuration stuff into the plugin correctly? Will it give me an error if it can't access the account I'm sending it to?
Also, the plugin instructions say to use an e-mail address that is given on the "write entry" page. But that address isn't an address I've set up, it's the address but with a number attached to it, what do I do with that number? It isn't part of the address I set up so anything I send won't go anywhere.
And my last issue (I'm just full of problems today apparently) is that in the install instructions it says to make sure I have an API password selected in MT (my understanding is that it should be under preferences under user) but there is no such field. Clearly I am doing something wrong or don't have an option selected somewhere that I need, but I'm having a heck of a time finding it.
Anyway, I appreciate any help and I'm feeling very embarrassed for acting so noobie-ish! I've been using MT for years and I feel horrid when I have problems with it that I can't figure out myself!
The only user that has an API password on any of my blogs is myself, but I am also the only one with admin privileges.
I also have the plugin installed and once I managed to get the perl modules installed properly it quit throwing errors into my activity log but is not posting anything. It looks as if it may be logging into my mail server, I haven't checked the logs but the emails are showing as having been viewed when I log into webmail.
I have as yet to find any kind of troubleshooting docs or anything else that might help us out.
OK, good to know I'm not the only one!
I think I've figured out the API thing at any rate. On a different forum someone said it's the same thing as a "web services" password that I do have. I'm not sure why it's called two different things! That seems to be needlessly confusing.
Has anyone been able to get PostOffice to work? I've set it up against a gmail account (which allows the plus-style addressing postoffice requires), but nothing seems to be happening. There is a test mail in the gmail account, from an allowed-to-post email address, but it's not fetching it. Gmail requires the SSL to be turned on, yes?
My service provider tells me that all the requisite modules are loaded and functioning.
Any ideas?
How are you trying to grab the mail? Might be a factor.
During my testing, I was never able to get PO to fetch from GMail via IMAP. I don't know whether this is a problem with IMAP transfer itself, though, or the combination of it with GMail as all my own accounts are hosted with them right now. (Also note, though to be fair my very limited understanding is that IMAP is more complex than POP and probably no server gets it perfectly.) PO calls upon Mail::IMAPClient for retrieval, and given it's been around since 2001 I'd guess it's probably been put through its paces by now, so I'm leaning toward it being a GMail issue, though that obviously still needs confirmation.
Fetching from GMail via POP was fine.
Plus addressing isn't necessarily required, by the way. Only if you have multiple blogs that would all be fetching from the same e-mail address. You can set up multiple addresses to avoid that if you want; it'd also seem more intuitive to me to mail photoblog@example.com, tumble@example.com, etc. rather than postoffice+2@example.com.
But if there's only the one blog anyway, just leave it off.
How are you trying to grab the mail? Might be a factor.
During my testing, I was never able to get PO to fetch from GMail via IMAP. I don't know whether this is a problem with IMAP transfer itself, though, or the combination of it with GMail as all my own accounts are hosted with them right now. (Also note, though to be fair my very limited understanding is that IMAP is more complex than POP and probably no server gets it perfectly.) PO calls upon Mail::IMAPClient for retrieval, and given it's been around since 2001 I'd guess it's probably been put through its paces by now, so I'm leaning toward it being a GMail issue, though that obviously still needs confirmation.
Fetching from GMail via POP was fine.
Plus addressing isn't necessarily required, by the way. Only if you have multiple blogs that would all be fetching from the same e-mail address. You can set up multiple addresses to avoid that if you want; it'd also seem more intuitive to me to mail photoblog@example.com, tumble@example.com, etc. rather than postoffice+2@example.com.
But if there's only the one blog anyway, just leave it off.
Thanks for the time Su, but maybe my bad. Would appreciate it if you have a minute for this:
I am using PO with the Gmail POP3. What I entered was this:
Sent a mail to xyz+1@gmail and also xyz@gmail.com from myotheraccount@gmail.com.
Nothing happened! I'm guessing it's one of two things
Thanks for the time Su, but maybe my bad. Would appreciate it if you have a minute for this:
I am using PO with the Gmail POP3. What I entered was this:
Sent a mail to xyz+1@gmail and also xyz@gmail.com from myotheraccount@gmail.com.
Nothing happened! I'm guessing it's one of two things
eek! how did that get there twice? Sorry!
@Su:
Okay, got it going. Posts correctly.
Question: Do you by any chance know how to assign a post sent by email to a category?
Thanks.
Hi Gautam, you mentioned above that you got PO to work. Could you share what you did? Greatly appreciated.
R
Hi Gautam, you mentioned above that you got PO to work. Could you share what you did? Greatly appreciated.
R
What's the frequency of checking? I see it is set to 1. Does that mean ever minute or every second?
@Su: consolidating some questions (and answers)
In practical terms, this means that mail will be checked at the frequency of your run-periodic-tasks cron job. I'm not sure how that works out if you happen to be running it in daemon mode, but would guess the end result is pretty much immediate. The included documentation doesn't say very much at all right now. Use mine instead.
As far as a "right now" option? You'd have to hack PostOffice.pm. Probably wouldn't take much, though the change would apply to all blogs(relative to that blog's dir) unless you went further and hard-coded some blog_id checking or somesuch. This is definite feature request material, though eg. add blog-level option to specify filepath.
In practical terms, this means that mail will be checked at the frequency of your run-periodic-tasks cron job. I'm not sure how that works out if you happen to be running it in daemon mode, but would guess the end result is pretty much immediate. The included documentation doesn't say very much at all right now. Use mine instead.
As far as a "right now" option? You'd have to hack PostOffice.pm. Probably wouldn't take much, though the change would apply to all blogs(relative to that blog's dir) unless you went further and hard-coded some blog_id checking or somesuch. This is definite feature request material, though eg. add blog-level option to specify filepath.
Muchos gracias, Su. Noted your documentation link--very handy, lot of effort there, much appreciated!
Now, thanks to Markdown ...
I put all the required perl modules in all the required places, but nothing happens - no errors, nothing. I'm using a gmail address, set to archive when pop is accessed, but there's no evidence on he gmail side that it has been accessed.
The cron job is working (it's publishing in the background, running scheduled tasks, etc.)
I'm stumped.
@thegreenpages, Cindi:
Here's the set up, once you have it installed and showing up as a plugin. These are the config details:
That's all I did and it worked.