Yes - I’m alive. Yes Postie has some problems. The good news is that I managed to carve out some time to fix some of them. Some of the problems were also sorted out by other users (Big round of applause to all the people who contributed code to the project.)
I’m hoping to do another round of improvements - but it’s late and I would prefer to push this out and make sure that it works for most people before I make any more serious modifications.
The new version can be found Here (< - Now you can always go to http://postie.economysizegeek.com if you want to get to postie.)
Here's the change log:
Version 0.9.9.3
BUGFIX: If your email address matches an existing user - then it will post as that user - even if you allow anyone to post.
BUGFIX: Replaced get_settings('home') with get_settings('siteurl')
BUGFIX: Better handling for Japanese charactersets - Thanks to http://www.souzouzone.jp/blog/archives/009531.html
BUGFIX: Better thumbnail window opening code - thanks to Gabi & Duntello!
FEATURE: Added an option to set the MAX Height of an image - idea from Duntello
BUGFIX: Modified the FilterNewLines for better flowed text handling - You now HAVE TO PUT TWO NEW LINES to end a paragraph.
FEATURE: Added new CSS tags to support positioning images/attachments/3gp videos
BUGFIX: Tries to use the date in the message (Thanks Ravan) I tried this once before and it never worked - hopefully this time it will.
BUGFIX: Added a workaround to fix the problem with Subscribe2 - it will now notify on posts that are not set to show up in the future.
There are still a number of open issues and some features left in the bag. Assuming I manage to find some more time in the next week I'll hope to roll out some more improvements.
March 13th, 2006 at 7:37 am
Hiya.
I see that one of the changes in 0.9.9.3 is that you now need two line breaks to make a paragraph. I don’t think that’s a bad change overall, rather than trusting the wrapping of the client’s mailer; I found I had to go into the editor and do a load/save of a post to “re-wrap” the lines and remove the hard breaks, which somewhat diminished the fabulous utility of Postie (although it was still easier than using WP’s editor on a slow machine).
However, one of the things I *liked* about this behavior was that I could easily post code snippets or blocks of configuration text or other text-based techie things without having them annoyingly wrapped, which the editor does and I haven’t figured out a way around yet. I can put a blank line between each line, but that’s an ugly workaround.
Have you thought about providing a way to mark a block as “do not wrap”? I’m probably going to have to hack this in somehow if I upgrade, which I probably will because overall I do like the two lines rule for making a paragraph, but I do need some way to indicate “trust the line breaks in this section and don’t alter them”. What immediately leaps to mind is to set them off with some kind of #nobreak_start -> #nobreak_end tags and process/removed them the way #img1# and so forth are done, but if you have any better ideas or suggestions, I’m all ears.
And thanks again for a great plugin.
March 26th, 2006 at 5:14 pm
Works great with images & text, however from my Treo I can’t seem to get video to take - not sure why - anyone else had any luck mailing video from a Treo using Versamail?
June 5th, 2006 at 2:35 pm (subscribed to comments)
Hi
Can I get some advice of you need to get postie script to save photos outside of wordpress directory (as want it to save them to gallery2).
So any tips would be useful
Regards
Russell