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?

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:

1. Account to check: xyz@gmail.com
2. Type: POP3
3. Server: gmail.com (should it be pop.gmail.com?)
4. Require SSL? Check, yes
5. Account name: xyz@gmail.com
6. Password: XpwDxpWD
7. Use API Key in address off
8. Allow all authors to post off
9. Default status: draft
10. Default author: gautam
11. Authorised sender: myotheraccount@gmail.com

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

1. Either my settings are wrong; or
2. Some required module is missing ... but shouldn't that return an error when I try and set all these variables?

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:

1. Account to check: xyz@gmail.com
2. Type: POP3
3. Server: gmail.com (should it be pop.gmail.com?)
4. Require SSL? Check, yes
5. Account name: xyz@gmail.com
6. Password: XpwDxpWD
7. Use API Key in address off
8. Allow all authors to post off
9. Default status: draft
10. Default author: gautam
11. Authorised sender: myotheraccount@gmail.com

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

1. Either my settings are wrong; or
2. Some required module is missing ... but shouldn't that return an error when I try and set all these variables?

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.

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)

1. It assigns a category from the subject line, if the category is placed in []. So:[mycat] My subject line, will assign it to category:mycat (does this have to exist? Can a default category be specified?) It doesn't however strip the [mycat] from the post title, so your post title is the full subject line, including [mycat]. Is this correct?
2. It doesn't seem to handle HTML formatted mail--formatting is lost. Is this to do with the default text-formatting set for that blog?
3. Attachments to HTML formatted mail show up; but the body text is stripped, leaving only the attachment.
4. Frequency=1 seems to mean every 15 minutes. Is this correct? Or is this to do with my periodic-tasks.pl frequency? The documentation doesn't say anything about setting up the cron job for periodic tasks.
5. For some reason, it seems not to deliver mails from alternative addresses.
6. Is there any way to get it to upload the images to a default folder rather than the site root?

Muchos gracias, Su. Noted your documentation link--very handy, lot of effort there, much appreciated!

Now, thanks to Markdown ...

1. noted; only means I have to set it to post into draft and then manually publish after correcting the basename and the title; or leave the posts without categories and add those in later (better I think than tinkering with basenames).
2. ok
3. ok; 2 & 3 only mean I post in plain-text mode, which I prefer anyway.
4. ok, and thanks again for the doc link.
5. Weird thing here. Say I have three email ids: Email(1) is associated with my profile. No problem, can always post from that (ticking on "let all authors post" option). Additional email field I specified both Email(2) and Email(3), comma separated. Sent to the same catching box. Only posts from Email(2) worked. I reversed the order. It caught only those from Email(3). I tried separating with a line-feed. Same result. Total and complete nitpicking on my part. Why would I want to post from, at best, more than two email ids anyway? Just that if it don't work, somebody ought to know, yes?
6. Unlcear about your last para, especially the "right now" option. What's that?

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:

1. Account to check: xyz@gmail.com
2. Type: POP3
3. Server: pop.gmail.com (should it be pop.gmail.com?)
4. Require SSL? Check, yes
5. Account name: xyz@gmail.com
6. Password: XpwDxpWD
7. Use API Key in address off
8. Allow all authors to post off
9. Default status: draft
10. Default author: YourName
11. Authorised sender: myotheraccount@gmail.com

That's all I did and it worked.