Economy Size Geek

One more thing…

Are you planning to add default category by user? So different users could have different default categories in the event that they do not specify it in the subject line?

thank you for that great plugin! i just have one question. when i send a picture its aligned to the left side in my blog but i would like to have it in the middle (centered). is there a possibility to change this in the code?

I am desperately trying to get Postie (0.9.8.4) working with the various email notifcation plugins (em-not 2.2 or subscribe2) . When I email the blog entry in(using postie plugin), it posts to the site, but it does not email users. If I post to the site from the blog, the notification plugins work great.

I understand this is because of a bug within Wordpress (the xml-rpc hook), but according to wordpress this has been “fixed”, http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/967

From what I have read it seems to be a problem with the publish_post, pinging, or $notify ???

help?

My service provider doesn’t offer Cron. I can’t/don’t want to get Cronless Postie to work. What else can I do?
There is a monitoring server called EasyMonitor

They are a FREE monitoring service. They will fetch a url on a regular basis and confirm that the site is up and working. Basically just put in the url to your Postie get_mail.php script and this site will automatically fetch it on an on going basis. Plus if for some reason your site goes down - you’ll get an update letting you know.

I haven’t had a chance to test this - please post a comment if you have any problems.

Reis: I don’t have the settings yet but I’m sure HeadGeek will post the solution when he has time to look at it. Trust 02 to be awkward!!

HeadGeek: Is it possible to get postie to ignore the email message body if the from address contains @mediamessaging.o2.co.uk ?

Hi. I installed this plug-in a few days ago and I must say it’s awesome. But, I have a couple of questions.

1) Is it possible to make the images move to the top of the post by default? At the moment, they always appear at the bottom unless I use the #img$# tag.

2) Is it possible to add a class to an emailed 3gp video by default?

3) Is it possible to add support for additional users posting under their own username? It kind of suggests that this is possible, but I haven’t figured out a way of doing it yet.

Anyway, thanks again for a great plugin. It’s very useful and MUCH more user-friendly than any of the other e-mail blogging plugins that I have tried. Hats off to you.

Tomkun.

Hi, love postie…
Question: I have posted via email with the subject line containing the category I want to post to ([cat1] or cat1: or 01:) this works fine if I manually run postie from configure page.

If I let cron with wp-cron do it’s job, all emails post to the default category, not the one specified in the subject line?

Any thoughts?

Sorry, another little thing: an email signature does not begin with
–\n
but with
– \n

There is a space after the dashes at the end of the line!

Regards.

Just wanted to confirm Aaron’s comment: that the config screen (Options/Configure Postie) is a little whacked out with version 0.9.8.5, using WP 1.5.2. Updates seem to work fine, but the layout and dropdown values are all messed up.

FWIW - I applied a ~10 line hack to Postie that handles SprintPCS Picture Mail emails by parsing them, finding the reference to the unique Picture Mail webpage, querying that page, and retrieving the correct URL for the image. It does NOT retrieve the image and store it locally on your WP site, it just refers to the image in the post with an tag. Does NOT handle audio clips. If anyone is interested in it, contact me via my blog and let me know.

Thanks for Postie!

Dig

i am running version 1.5.2 of wordpress, and the latest version of postie.
I have problems with clicking on a thumbnail to enlarge it
It works fine in Opera and WindowsCE but not in Internet Explorer CE
Any idea?

Thanks Louis

I’m not very familiar with PHP, but these urls may give some insight to the problem that I am having with this plugin (but was not with John Blade’s hack):

http://www.phpkitchen.com/index.php?/archives/698-Fix-Email-Line-Breaks.html

http://www.phpbuilder.com/annotate/message.php3?id=1004028

Thanks again for your time and effort on this plugin.

Trying to post a 3GPP and/or MP4 file via Postie and are experiencing som problems. As metioned i a earlier comment there are problems regarding the filename. The link in the Quicktime object only referes to the wp-files folder and not to the filename of the 3GPP/MP4 file.

I am posting from a Nokia N70 phone.

Anyone??

Great plugin, works like a charm. A couple of thing, though:
1.Would it be possible to have a user-definable keyword that, if used in a subject, would allow posting from ANY email account? There are times when you want to post but don´t have access to your own email. Maybe an option to set a default user/cat for this case would be useful, too.
2. I would really love to be able to set a time offset in the options. For some strange reason my host´s server is 6 hours behind and whenever I post by email I get the wrong time with the post.
That´s about it, keep up the great work!

Great plugin - I love it! One thing I sure wish I could do with it is add technorati tags. Any way to mod the plugin to allow me to tag my posts?

Thanks
XB90

Postie ver. 0.9.8.5 has solved my problem with nordic charsets. Thanks :) But line breaks are not removed from the emails and I still have problems with this character “. Could this perhaps be solved by changing function HTML2HTML and if, then how?

Can anyone help me with this ? It has got me stumped?

Hi,

I am loking for some help.

I am posting html rss feeds through email using postie. Postie is placing them on the page inside an iframe which is great as it gives it scrollbars etc. The problem I have is they are very small frames and I cant work out what file or whereabouts I can increase the size of the post???? Can someone help me with this. If you look on http://graeme.hopto.org and look at the news alerts you will see what I mean.

Thanks

Graeme

Hi thanks for the plugin,

i have the same problem as brian had, with posting an email via mms. the picture comes up but the text is not displayed in the post. it is visible in the HTML though. i have a nokia 6230. also i read about some problems with 3gp postings, i haven’t tried this yet but is there anything i should know before i do?

thanks
steve

Hi Justis,

Thanks for your reply I sincerely appreciate it.

Justis, when you say “Thats the address that you send your posts to.” do you mean it’s the address where all my posts are on my autoresponder, ie “autoresponder address”? Or is this something else? Sorry for my naievity.

And when you say:

(There shoud be a chart on the config page of what port to use for what type of email account - 110 is for POP3)
Mail Userid: youremail@yourdomain.com
Mail Password: ******

Where am I looking for the config page, userid and password?

Sorry about this.

Any help would dbe greatly appreciated.

Cheers,

Tony

Hi,
just a quick question. First of all thatks for developing Postie. By using my MMS with a finnish operator the email it’s like this. The body is not relevant at all, you just get operator news (or spam). You got 3 attached messages. 1 Text file where inside you can find your text message (the real body). The picture (if you posted it) and one file call press.smil that is nothing. So I banned the third one with wordpress but actually postie doesn’t open the text file in order to publish it’s content. How can I cope with this? So far I can publish just the picture… Thanks a lot for your help!!!

Is there a way to specify something in the subject field so that a category will be created if it doesn\’t already exist in the database? This would be perfect for a project I\’m working on. Any ideas?

Firstly, many thanks for the plugin. Works a treat at the website I’ve installed it on.

A feature request I wanted to enquire about: The website I’ve installed postie on is the public face of a mailing list. We want the main posts to be displayed for a wider audience, hence postie. However, a reply on the mailing list gets posted as a new entry.

I’d love to know if you’re considering a feature whereby replies could be posted as comments to the original post, rather than as a new post? It’s perhaps not something that would be useful unless a mailing list was involved as with us, but would make a big difference.

Thanks again.

Headgeek: when I hit the “Run Postie” button to check if it is working (after a clean install on wp2.0) it says: “#!/usr/bin/php -q Sorry but / is not a valid directory.” Can you assist?

Yes that could be considered a security issue. In a proper environment you would chown the directory to the web server user and then make sure that it is writable by that user. The plugin doesn’t actually expect that it will be 777 just that it can write to the directory.

I left it the 777 route in because it is the easiest to get set up.

That part of the documentation could be improved :)

Who owned the directory? in order for 775 or 755 to work the directory has to be owned (or in the group) by the same user that runs your web server - on debian this is www-data. On other linuxes it is often apache.

This looks like a great plugin. For the legality, I was wondering what kind of license came with John Blade’s original program. Thanks.

Tom - the original version of Blade’s code was released under the GPL. Postie is released as GPL for that reason.

Having much drama trying to get mails from a cell phone to post in Japanese correctly on a utf-8 encoded blog.

The mails are encoded ISO-2202-JP. If I do a postie test, it retrieves the mail fine. However in between retrieval and posting to the blog it does not get deciphered correctly.

I have changed the conversion code in the postie-functions.php file but unfortunately that didn’t resolve the issue.

Any suggestions or links to answers would be much appreciated!

(Wonderful plugin regardless of my drama)

Hi, i’m trying to get the Postie working on my website. I have installed and set up all the settings correctly. The test works and i can connect to the mailbox. However, when i manually Run Postie it comes up with this error:

#!/usr/bin/php -q

Connecting to mail.formfollowsfunction.co.uk:110 (pop3))
Mission complete, message 1 deleted.
“EMAIL” is authorized to post as the administrator
Invalid sender: “EMAIL”! Not adding email!
A copy of the message has been forwarded to the administrator.

Ignoring email - not authorized.

—

I have removed the actual email address used (from this post), but it is the email address of the administrator!!! I don’t understand why the post isn’t working. I have also set it so any email address is allowed to post. Any help would be much appreciated! Thanks!

I’m having the same issue as Markus and others have reported. The javascript stuff after the “#” in the link is getting stripped out unless I use the manual ‘Run Postie’ button/form on the config page. I’ve tried calling the get_mail script directly from a browser and also via curl (I don’t have lynx installed.)

Posting text via email seems to work fine regardless of the method used to invoke the get_mail script.

I’ve tried this with WP 2.0 and 2.0.1 alpha and Postie 0.9.9.2. I *am* running on a Mac server with PHP 5, if that helps. (I notice that a note in the postie.php file mentions ‘problems’ with PHP 5. Could this be related?)

BTW, the wp-mail.php script seems to work fine when called via curl, either via terminal or cron.

I didn’t saw this malfunction before, but I can confirm it… I run a cronjob too. Maybe related to some informations passed by a “post” instead a “get” ?

here is the solution for the “javascript part is stripped” problem. (if you read Hungarian, you can read it on my site too: http://lipilee.hu/2006/01/26/moblog-solution-mobile-video-blog/ )
the cause of the problem is that you need to be logged in in order to be able to post with the javascript and class part. you either do this in your browser or you go mobile big time and do it with curl and cron. here I will explain the latter.
on your server (or the computer you are pinging your postie from), run the following curl command:
curl -c [cookie file] -d log=[username] -d pwd=[password] http://your blog’s address]/wp-login.php
now you stored the cookie WP gives you upon login. let’s use it:
curl -s -b [cookie file] http://your blog’s address]/wp-content/plugins/postie/get_mail.php >>/dev/null
curl will use the cookie from the file and it will run the get_mail.php script just as if you logged in before.
the one line above is the line you need to put in your crontab and run it, say, every 5 minutes.
2 things to consider:
1. you should consider protecting the postie directory on the server e.g. via .htaccess (make it accessible only from your server or the computer you are pinging postie from) to prevent some jerk ruining your moblog by unauth’edly pinging get_mail.php.
2. for testing, you should remove ‘-s’ and ‘>>/dev/null’ from the curl command line so you see possible errror messages.

have fun moblogging!

hi there!

well, i have a question about using postie inside a modified version of wordpress (the joomla/wordpress-bridge JD-WordPress 2.0-1.0 RC 2, based on wordpress 2.0) inside joomla 1.0.7 - well, i could understand, if you reject my question, but nevertheless, maybe anyone could help me…

my problem:

when i try to save the options, i get the message “Direct Access to this location is not allowed.”

i am logged in as admin both frontend and backend.

does anyone have some suggestions or hints for me? i also posted this problem in the support-forum of the developer of the joomla/wordpress-bridge, but until now, i didn’t got a solution.

greetings,
asleif

Okay, I figured out the problem. needed to add ‘!’ to line 107. Now the real problem… It checks for email (via cron job) and instead of downloading the photo, all this ASCII garbage comes up. If I manually run postie, it’s fine, but somehow the cron jon (in this case wp-mail) somehow downloads the photo in ASCII instead of the photo itself…

I searched, and researched to no avail. Any help I’d greatly appreciate it!

cheers!
Andre’

Jack, you are right, that is what i meant…

when the cron job runs the get_mail.php somehow everything is stripped… for eg:

this is what is left after the cron job runs it: (in html)

Body of email

Whereas if I run it manually via configure postie this is what I get:

Bodddydyd

I don’t get why the data is stripped… This all happened after I uprgraded to WP 2.0…

Anyone have any ideas?

Thank you! ~Andre’

I thought I commented yesterday, but i guess something went wrong.

lipilee: If i understand correctly, that would only work best for a blog with one poster. This blog will have 4 posters with 4 phones.

So I guess you can consider this a feature request. If the ability to add extra email addresses for each user.

Connecting to mail.paddlersview.com:110 (pop3))
Mission complete, message 1 deleted.
is authorized to post as the administrator

Message Id is :

Email has following attachments:

Post Author: 1
Date: 2006-01-28 19:45:58
Date GMT: 2006-01-29 01:45:58
Ping Status: open
Comment Status: open
Subject: Hang ‘em High!
Postname: hang-em-high
Posted content:
This just in about the sick jackal that raped a 2 year old girl while the mother helps. What kind of a sicko gets off on 2 year old girls. These sick animals should be hung high in the town square and let the dogs have em. Death is to good for them. That would be to easy a way out. Hang em up and let their vermin cousins get to them, the crow, dogs and another animal that wants a piece of them. The native american had it right, tie them over an ant hole with honey smeared around their more sensitive private parts.

WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'em High!', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'hang-em-high', '', '', '2006-01-2' at line 4]
INSERT INTO wp_posts (post_author, post_date, post_date_gmt, post_content, post_content_filtered, post_title, post_excerpt, post_status, comment_status, ping_status, post_password, post_name, to_ping, pinged, post_modified, post_modified_gmt, post_parent, menu_order, post_mime_type) VALUES (’1′, ‘2006-01-28 19:45:58′, ‘2006-01-29 01:45:58′, ‘ This just in about the sick jackal that raped a 2 year old girl while the mother helps. What kind of a sicko gets off on 2 year old girls. These sick animals should be hung high in the town square and let the dogs have em. Death is to good for them. That would be to easy a way out. Hang em up and let their vermin cousins get to them, the crow, dogs and another animal that wants a piece of them. The native american had it right, tie them over an ant hole with honey smeared around their more sensitive private parts. ‘, ”, ‘Hang ‘em High!’, ”, ‘publish’, ‘open’, ‘open’, ”, ‘hang-em-high’, ”, ”, ‘2006-01-28 19:45:58′, ‘2006-01-29 01:45:58′, ‘0′, ‘0′, ”)

WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '' at line 3]
SELECT category_id FROM wp_post2cat WHERE post_id =

WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ' 6)' at line 2]
INSERT INTO wp_post2cat (post_id, category_id) VALUES (, 6)

I am not a programmer and could not find the solution. Thanks for taking the time.

Hello, and thanks for the plugin!

I couldn’t get it to work here yet, but you may want to change the get_settings(’home’) to get_settings(’siteurl’) inside config_handler.php, otherwise it will give a 404 if the blog and WP install are in different directories.

How does cronless postie work. I have configured postie and it will post my posts when I run the manual check.

However my server doesn’t allow cronjobs so I need to get cronless postie working - I’ve activated it but nothing seems to be happening. HOw often does cronless check?

For anyone who’s interested: I made a little alteration to have the post date set to the date the email was sent (or otherwise set in header) rather than the date of import…

Replace in postie-functions.php on line 46:
list($post_date,$post_date_gmt) = DeterminePostDate($content);
with:
list($post_date,$post_date_gmt) = DeterminePostDate($mimeDecodedEmail,$content);

Also replace the whole function DeterminePostDate (starting around line 1125) with:

function DeterminePostDate(&$mimeDecodedEmail,&$content) {
$config = GetConfig();
$delay = 0;
if (eregi(”delay:([0-9dhm]+)”,$content,$matches)
&& trim($matches[1])) {
if (eregi(”([0-9]+)d”,$matches[1],$dayMatches)) {
$days = $dayMatches[1];
}
if (eregi(”([0-9]+)h”,$matches[1],$hourMatches)) {
$hours = $hourMatches[1];
}
if (eregi(”([0-9]+)m”,$matches[1],$minuteMatches)) {
$minutes = $minuteMatches[1];
}
$delay = (($days * 24 + $hours) * 60 + $minutes) * 60;
$content = ereg_replace(”delay:$matches[1]“,”",$content);
}

// finding and setting the date defined in msg header
if ( $mimeDecodedEmail->headers['date'] == NULL ) {
$date_time = time();
} else {
$date = $mimeDecodedEmail->headers['date'];
HandleMessageEncoding($mimeDecodedEmail->headers["content-transfer-encoding"],
$mimeDecodedEmail->ctype_parameters["charset"],
$date);
$date_time = strtotime($date);
}

$dateInSeconds = $date_time + $delay;
$post_date = gmdate(’Y-m-d H:i:s’,$dateInSeconds + ($config["TIME_OFFSET"] * 3600));
$post_date_gmt = gmdate(’Y-m-d H:i:s’,$dateInSeconds);

return(array($post_date,$post_date_gmt));
}

Now you can do post by date and time of sending or set your own date in the email header. It might also be interesting to have a flag like :date to override post date in the body?

i want to change how postie’s posts look, where in the code could i add a css class or somthing like that.

“This is pretty easy actually. Just create a user for the person you want to allow to post. Then give them a role that is allowed to post to Postie. That’s it.” (from: FAQ)

I installed postie as decribed in the readme but i get a blank configuration page.
Help ?!

Hey Dirk,

I just moved my Wordpress install into a subdirectory of my main site (Wordpress Address), but still use the main domain name (no subdirectory) as the Blog address. With this configuration, when I click the Update Options >> button on the Postie config page, instead of being returned to the config page I’m presented with a 404. The options are updated, I’m just not returned to the proper URL.

This seems to happen because the config_handler.php file uses get_settings(’home’) to preface the URL to the config page. This results in a URL off of the Blog address, without taking the subdirectory of the Wordpress address into account. Changing the config_handler.php to use get_settings(’siteurl’) seems to correct this issue.

I updated lines 20 and 35, changing this:

get_settings(’home’)

to this:

get_settings(’siteurl’)

Hi, How can images in the e-mail to be with the text by default without it being in the end or the beggining.

Same problem as Andre overhere, and the problem wasn’t there in WP1.5. I know the was a special mail.php file available, but that one got lost… Is there any sufficient solution yet?

Plug in installed perfect. It checks my email and pulls the picture back but then I look at my site and all the posts are gone… I think the html in the email that the tmobile phone sends screws up the postings… If I go in and edit the msg. and take out all the code prior to the picture it works. Any way around this?

Thanks

Cronless postie appears to be broken for me as well. Also, I’ve created users who’s email addresses are included in the Postie authorized user list, but all incoming emails are published as being authored by “admin” and not the user who sent it. Any ideas?

cronless-postie, what do I need to do in my Bloglines account to work with cronless-postie? wp-cron and cronless-postie are activated, but I don’t know what to do with RSS or a feed.

Charles, about your error:
#!/usr/bin/php -q The web server cannot write to / please correct the permissions

I got this after upgrading WP from 2.0 to 2.0.1 because I accidentally deleted my wp-filez folder. Check to make sure its there and permissioned correctly and see if that helps.

/thad

you can check it out here http://www.381.dk/blog

The middle post is posted by manually running Postie, The other two is cron..

Ok I’ve tried chaniging the code but now i get an error:

Not Found

The requested URL /blog/’ was not found on this server

Donutello - sent you a mail

What is GD? Why would I want it?

GD is a library that allows PHP to manipulate images. If you would like to have automatic thumbnails made then GD is required.

More Info at : PHP.net

From the FAQ on this page ;-)

Furious, did you get my email? Did it work?

Furious, you’ve got mail.

Check your junk mail folder if you don’t see it after a while.

Hmm. I’ve seemed to run in to another problem..

Postie won’t write the danish characters æøå. It pusts some weird “Æ” stuff instead. I’ve changed the encodin to ISO-8859-1 but that doesn’t help..

It works in the title of the post but not in the body.

Check blog.381.dk for example

Ok, so a lot of people have asked me about my fix for the thumbnail image problem. You can find it at: http://thejoshis.org/donutello/?p=4

I need to e-mail text and pictures to my blog.

I cannot get cronless postie to work at all. As instructed I modified wp-rss.php, wp-rss2.php, and wp-atom.php:

———CUT———

OK, I’ll try again.

I modified wp-rss.php, wp-rss2.php, and wp-atom.php:

if (empty($feed)) {
$blog = 1;
$feed = ‘rss’;
$doing_rss = 1;
require(’wp-blog-header.php’);

}

do_action(’check_postie’);

What am I doing wrong?

PS: Sorry to spam your blog., Didn’t guess it couldn’t handle OPEN BRACKET QUESTION MARK PHP

“Seems to me this should be a simple task”

If it’s so simple, feel free to start coding your own plugin.

“but not even Postie works out of the box”

Maybe not for you, but there are probably a lot of people that don’t have an issue with it. Remember, you generally only hear about people that have problems. The ones that have it working have no reason to come here and post about it. That makes it seem like the plugin doesn’t work, but I can assure you that it does work “out of the box.” I had it running on my site in about 5 minutes.

“if you are the same Rich who posted comment #1422…”

No, I am not the same Rich who posted comment #1422.

Although you make a couple of valid points (code, comment, etc.), I don’t agree with most of what you say (i.e. wp-cron is a separate package, therefore it should not be included with Postie). Maybe that’s just the (commercial) software developer in me. I’m just going to ignore your remaining comments and move on. I’m not looking to continue an argument on someone else’s site.

I had emailed Dirk almost immediately after my earlier comment was made, asking him to remove it (I was mad for other reasons when I posted it). I guess it doesn’t matter now, but he can still remove it (along with this one) if he wishes.

Has anybody managed to get Ravan’s code running (#comment-1463) for seting post date to same as mail sent date? … I just seem to get Parse errors…

Hey i am using subscribe2. i am using postie 0.9.9.2. but it dosen\’t seem to send a notification everytime i post thru postie..

Just a quick note to say thanks for Postie. Dropped it into my site and it works like a charm. Very nice work, and thanks for sharing it!

Thanks for being the Postie Player! It’s works great and was easy to install.

Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!

Attaching a PDF file.
What file type has to specified to Postie for a PDF attachment?
I tried “pdf” “application pdf” and “application/pdf” but every time the attached PDF just gets stripped away, instead of being uploaded to wp-filez.
Running Postie manually recognizes the attachment as “application pdf”
Running WP 2.01 with Postie 0.9.9.2
I would appreciate any help!

Im trying to attach a .kml (google earth file) file to an email, when I run postie I get the output shown below..

On the blog i get a link to the file but when i click on it it tries to open it as an XML file

Anybody know how I can fix this?

********************************************
Email has following attachments:multipart alternative
application vnd.google-earth.kml+xml
Working on FW

Post Author: 1
Date: 2006-03-07 15:51:00
Date GMT: 2006-03-07 15:51:00
Ping Status: closed
Comment Status: open
Subject: kmltest
Postname: kmltest
Posted content:

——————————————————————————–
kml attach 2 MyTrack2.kml

Gabi

I tried making changes to the supported file types for the .kml file but it didnt make a difference…. I just tried mailing a .pdf file without making any changes to postie and it worked fine (uploaded file and created link)… but im manually running postie not using cron.

Anyone know of a Moveable Type plugin that does the same thing…?

Dirk, I found a small bug in Postie.
It is about window.open() used to link thumbs with their full-size image.
As you well know, the syntax is window.open(’url’,'window_name’[,'window_characteristics']).
According to my tests, IE requires that window_name to be a single word, without spaces or dots.
That is, window.open(’server.com’,'my image.jpg’) will open a window under mozilla, but not under IE.
window.open(’server.com’,'my_image_jpg’) will open a window under both mozilla and IE.
Also, regarding the window_charcteristics string: “statusbar” should be “status”, “scrollbar” should be “scrollbars” for compatibility with IE. This is a minor thing, since a window opens in any case, but IE will simply ignore the window_characteristics string.

Scrath the above code, it is improperly formatted/changed by WordPress. Seems that I cannot post it here :-(

Hi, and thanks for making this script avail. I’ve installed it on WP 2.0.1 and that side is set up correctly. I can’t get my cron job to run right. My host uses cpanel, so I’m controlling the job through a web interface. I’ve tried your script as well as what my host recommends, and either have worked. I did a web search for cron jobs and didn’t come up with anything helpful. Can you help me figure out what I’m supposed to put in that line?

Thanks in advance.

With the help of my webhost support staff I was able to get the cron job to run. Thanks again for making this script avail, it really is cool.

Nik,
Seems that Postie has just been upgraded to 0.9.9.3 and Donutello’s suggestions as well as mine have been included (and improved!). Just upgrade Postie!
Good work, Dirk!

Ok I fixed the subject problem - I accidentally left in debug code from last night.

Can you explain the problem you are having with the popup code?

I\’ve also not been able to get 0.9.9.3 pop up windows to work. Same problem as before: when running Postie via the admin panel it works fine. That is, an image has a link with the Javascript code to create a pop up window when the image is clicked. Posting the exact same message and invoking Postie via \’curl\’, either via a terminal call or via cron, creates a link that opens the full size image in a regular browser window, not a pop up window.

curl is an equivalent to Lynx; on my Macs I can use it from a terminal window to fetch a URL. For example ‘curl -s http://www.whatever.com‘. I’ve used it fine in crontab files, too, with no issues. The ‘-s’ switch merely shuts off the self-reporting features of curl.

When I call the Postie file via curl in the terminal (’/path/to/Postie/get_mail.php’) I see the proper Javascript formatting for the popup window echoed in the Terminal but it never makes it into the WP database. But if I call Postie from the admin page all’s well - the Javascript makes it into the database.

I have just been running link to get_mail.php from a browser.

I’m still having the problems that are listed at the top comment of this page. Here’s a new one, though. It doesn’t seem to be escaping the apostrophe properly in titles. I had a post called “Joe’s New Cingular 8125 Pocket PC.” Postie said this:

Thanks again for the plugin.

-Aaron

…. Since updating to the latest version - Ravans date fix dosnt seem to be working …. dont know if this somthing else that only works if you use the button on the config page .. i never use it…

Oncemore about the Tag for splitting mails with allot of pictures:
It works when I write the mail in plaintext and put a htmlf-ormated more-tag in the body (after 3 or 4 picture-tags). But it would be nicer if I could allow htmlformated emails by default.

Then one more question:
Would it be easy to manage if the pictures could be copied in an extra folder per email. My wp-photos is full - Its getting very hard to delete the pictures from deleted articles. The photozip plugin works like this - maybe its possible to implement?

Regards,
Marc

Quick and dirty fix for the “apostrophe in subject” bug:

in postie-functions.php:

search for: $subject = GetSubject($mimeDecodedEmail,$content);
afterwards add: $subject = addslashes($subject);

Hi there, great work on the plug-in :)
I have a strange tale to tell though, when it comes to 3gp-files.
When I email a 3gpfile from phone or outlook, it shows up as only a link, UNLESS I use the run postie button from inside the options/admin-page for postie - If I check for new mails there, the video is embeded in the post - if I let the cron-job do it’s business, the 3gpfile is not embedded - anyone else experienced anything similar?
running WP2.0.1 and the latest postieversion on a bluehostserver.
any help would be appreciated since this is like the final hurdle for a perforct blog-site ;)

best regards,
andré

Hi there, is it possible to get postie to accept any emails from a certain domain, i.e ‘*@gmail.com’?

Thanks, Alex

Tom:

If you’re not using cron yet, make yourself a file called “crontab.txt” to hold your various cron jobs. If you want to have Postie run every five minutes, use a line like this:

*/5 * * * * /usr/bin/lynx –source http://YOURSITE.com/wp-content/plugins/postie/get_mail.php >/dev/null 2>&1

(remove any CRs the post wrapping puts in, if there are any)

Then activate it from the shell like this:

crontab crontab.txt

Confirm that it “took” by typing:

crontab -l

You should see your cron file again.

Before you automate it, you should make sure it works by running it manually from the command line (the “/usr/bin/lynx –source http://YOURSITE.com/wp-content/plugins/postie/get_mail.php” part) - if there are any errors, go into further troubleshooting until it runs cleanly.

Tom try http://www.cronjob4you.at/serve/index.php?lang=en

It makes setting cron a doddle.

Some of the site is in German so Firefox with the Translate extension would be handy.

I’ve written a fairly large patch for postie-functions in version 0.9.9.3.2 that fixes a couple of bugs and adds some new directives, mostly oriented around posting code and handling word-wrap correctly, and fixing some issues with URLs being broken and so forth. There’s actually a fair bit of functionality there, so rather than recap it all here, I’ll just link to my own summary with the patch:

http://frobnosticate.com/?p=146

Please use with caution - there may still be bugs, but I’ve been pounding on it pretty hard and it’s working ok so far for me. To install, patch against postie-functions.php; if you’re not comfortable with the process to do this, you might want to wait and see if Dirk approves and integrates it. :)

Dirk, you’re welcome to include any or all of this code in your next release (of course), and thanks again for Postie.

Buzzkill, glad you like the patch and that it’s working for you. :)

If anybody’s interested in procmail for running Postie rather than cron, I just got my setup working and documented it here:

http://frobnosticate.com/?p=147

I use vpopmail and qmail on a Linux server. It took a little trial and error to get it going, but it seems to be working now, and procmail is enough of a pain (but awesome once you get it going) that I thought I should jot down what I did. :) Posting it just in case it helps anybody here.

Hi guys this seems like a great plugin but i’m getting this error using gmail

Unable to connect. The server said - POP3 connect: Error [] []

any ideas? could you please reply to my email if possible :)

Just a follow up, here is everything thats printed when i run get_mail.php

#!/usr/bin/php -q

Connecting to mail.ihug.com.au:110 (pop3))
Mail Connection Time Out

Common Reasons:

Server Down

Network Issue

Port/Protocol MisMatch

The Server Said POP3 connect: Error [] []

Thanks :)

Equals signs.
When I post from my mobile I almost always get equals signs at the end of each line in my posts:

The Real Estate agency said the usual sale time is 30 to 60 days so I will =
be moving out soon.

I am running the latest version of Postie (great hack) and WP 2.0.2. It’s working my issues are one of formatting.

I am currently using a free, dedicated POP3 email account via Yahoo international to retrieve my email that I want to post to a blog.

1st off client wise I’m a Mac user.

Using the MS Entourage email client (which I am stuck using) I can’t post without special characters turning to garbley gook. Carriage returns seem to be ignored so I end up with one GIANT paragraph. I have turned off HTML in sending my emails in Entourage, so I’m not sure what the issue is. I’ve also played with a number of different Postie settings to no avail. Attachments appear with no problem.

I also tried sending using Mail.app. This sent out emails that looked good but the attachments didn’t appear. Unfortuantely, I can’t use Mail.app because I am on an Exchange server at work…

Any help/tips are greatly appreciated. Thanks!!

Just an FYI thing for anybody new using Postie. This drove me nuts for about a half a day. If you send an email and attach a picture and only write a subject with no text in the body, Postie will create the post, but drop the image. It won’t recognize the image file unless you write something in the body of the email too.

Feature Request:translating wiki formatting elements

For example, when editing a wiki, I can say:
!!!Heading
and it would produce
Heading
or, especially useful, is
*blah
to:
blah

It would be cool, eh? For the first example, I could think of replacing “\n!!!” with “” using preg_replace(), but the ending tag would involve some trickery.I don’t know php very well, so I’m tempted to write something that, after replacing the above with preg_replace(), searches through and replaces every instance of the tag with it’s closing tag at the next new line, but I bet someone with more php experience could do it using built-in functions (rather than writing all of the search-replace function yourself).Any ideas?

dang it. I even screwed with the tags. Oh well, you get the idea.

I’m trying to configure postie to work with gmail using pop3 ssl.

When configuring postie it says under mail protocol that IMAP/IMAP-SSL/POP3-SSL is unavailable.

How come? What am I doing wrong?

I have installed and configured postie. It was a breeze and the plugin seems really great. But I’m having a small issue. I sent an email to the correct address. But everytime I click “Run Postie” the script connects to the mail server but says, “There does not seem to be any new mail.” Any ideas on why that might be? I’m using Dreamhost. Does the e-mail need special formatting? Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

TomatoMan:Nice job. Posts wrap their text much better now (I had to put in two carriage returns before to do the trick and now I don’t). I’m still getting some funky text posting and I suspect it’s a character thing I can control. Help getting to the bottom of this would be greatly appreciated!

For example: I’m
Turns into: I=B9m

I have trouble uploading 3gpp videos direct from Nokia 6670 cell phone,
using the email client builtin to the phone (TeliaSonera network).
(Images+text work ok, only video parts fail)

When I run the get-mail manually, it recognizes the content ok,
but the video file never appears in the directory. Needless to say,
the video fails to load, and the links point to the directory.
If I post the same video file from gmail or other, everythng works ok.

Raw mail that fails: http://mutsis-on.com/mail-fails

(And yes, Postie 0.9.9.3.2, Wordpress 2.0.2)

Any ideas?

Cheers,
Takku

I fixed a couple of bugs in the postie-functions.php file I’ve been working on - a procmail one that’s actually not connected, but was causing posts to sometimes appear twice, and added a couple of additional minor functions. A changelog and download is at the same place:

http://frobnosticate.com/?page_id=177

Let me know if anything breaks, as usual.

I still get the 404 error. I’ve checked the config_handler.php file, it is there and it is siteurl not home. What else can be causing this problem?

Try it with an image that’s over 1mb and see if it’s an issue with file size; if very large images work, then there’s probably an issue with the 3gp processing.

I’m supposing that perhaps I did not include enough information in my post in order for someone to assist me. I will try to provide more information this time. I have installed Postie following the directions in the ReadMe. I go into the plugins section of the Admin page, activate the plugin, then go to Options and choose Configure Postie. Once there, after I fill in the requested information, if I hit Run Postie, Update Options, or Test Config they each return a 404 (Page not found error). I did check the config_handler.php file to ensure it had “siteurl” listed and not home. It is accurate to what I have read on the board.

Is there another problem or issue that can be creating this error mesage? I have confirmed the file does exist in the path indicated. The URL returned is: http://www.mysite.com/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/postie/config_handler.php

Any help, information, or suggestions would be appreciated. Thank you.

hi @all!
i’m a newbie, so please be a little bit patient ;-)

i’ve installed wordpress 2.0.2 yesterday and added the postie-plugin. it work’s realy fine but i don’t know how to configure the features right.
mailing and posting is ok, but there is imagemagick and ffmpeg, too
i’m using a windows 2003 server with ii6.
already installed is a gallery, which already uses ImageMagick and ffmpeg.
But If I try to use the same path under convert binary location or identify… or location ffmpeg
anyone who has already such a configuration?
thank’s

Hi, I just installed postie a couple weeks ago (on WP 2.0.2) and have yet to get it to post any mails I send. If I send mail and then click ‘run postie’ it always says there is no new mail even though there are several mails in the account from approved to post addresses. I’ve tried sending the email from my gmail account and also tried from the email account I have setup for my site (for that I tried both from OE and from the webmail client). It doesn’t post any of them. I copied the headers as it says to do so above and put them in a text file: http://www.aahhh.org/temp/mail.txt.

Any ideas what’s wrong? I really want to get this working so I can post updates while on my trip.

I just got Postie 0.9.9.3.2 running on Wordpress 2.02. It works great. However strange is that when I manually add the mail to the page (by pressing the ‘run Postie’ button in the Postie options), all the styles are applied. But when the mail is added by a cronjob, the message appears without styles.

E.G I have styles added to the Postie options in ‘Image CSS Style’ to centre and border the images. But the images are not centred or bordered. In the final page source I see that the style rule is missing.

How can I resolve this?

OK problem solved - since i m too dumb to understand how to make cron works or my server or something, using 3rd party was how i did get away from it.
Recomment to use this: http://www.cronjob4you.at, which gives you up to 10 mins duration for your fast pacing blogger(s). Other such as webcron.org only provide minimum to 1 hr duration..
Once reg and put in your link to exe the job, the link page url should be same as the page lauched after submitting “Run Posite” (ie blah../get_mail.php).
Yep, ignore how to do cron if you dunno how, when you ok to run postie, just get to do what i mentioned. Hope this helps, this plugin is great, look forward more and more people enjoying it!

Hello — I’m working on two things. I cannot get the ‘Default Subject’ to work. I’d like to override every time, so that the title of the blog will be ‘Live from the field’ and not the begining of my message.

Is there any way to do this? I’d also like the spam filter to remove the text verizon adds to every pix message sent. Any way to force remove huge chuncks of text?

Can i use subject : [1][2]some subject

to put the category id=1 and category id=2 ?

thanks

My version of wordpress is the 2.0.2 and i have the same error that Charles:

The web server cannot write to / please correct the permissions

Can somebody tell me something about this.

Recently upgraded to 0.9.9.3.2 from 0.9.9.2. Two notes:

The problem with the assorted line breaks that weren’t supposed to be there seems almost fixed. Instead of a hard return it is now just a space. Almost just as annoying though to edit… but coming along. I’m glad that you’re tackling this issue which is very serious for me and other users. I do appreciate it.

The problem with an apostrophe in the subject line allowing arbitrary SQL commands to be sent is a very nasty bug that’s still there and needs to be squashed. I reported it in March 2006 and IMHO you shouldn’t be releasing this version with this exploit still unresolved. Not only because of the exploit itself but also because there’s apostrophes in my titles sometimes and if I forget, it will upload the jpegs to my server and completely forget about them causing me to FTP back in and prune them out.

Still enjoying this plugin and you’re getting closer to v1.0. I’ll continue to use and test it. :-)

Cheers,
-Aaron

Hi there!
Great work. Absolut brilliant! I can post MMS-E-Mails to my Blog now without any Problem! :) Thanx!

… but: I would love to change the style of the Pictures, but unfortunately the Image CSS Class: and Image Div CSS: are not working. There is only a empty div created.
So I tried to modify the source of postie-functions.php. At 387 I changed

attachmentshtml .= mimeTag.div class= . configIMAGEDIX.

to

attachmentshtml .= mimeTag.div class=myclass

but still I got an empty div

so I changed it to

attachmentshtml.= mimeTag.diXXXX class=myclass

just to see if I am editing at the correct line - and now the div was completely gone. I than edited the a-Tag to a rel=lightbox - thistime it worked out. So I am at the correct line, but somehow all div-Tags are post-processed and cleaned. How? Why? Where? Help! :(
Also the window.open is not in the Page-Source, I fist read about it in the postie-functions.php. Confusing.

I am running WordPress 2.0.2 and K2 Beta Two r167. Thanks for any hint! :)

I found a wrong variable in postie-functions.php around line 400. there is $config["IMAGEDIX"] used twice - must be $config["IMAGEDIV"]

Hey, would like to say that this appears to be a fantastic plug-in, just having some problems to get it working.

Previously tried post-by-email, but had troubles getting the system to automatically check for new posts.

I have postie installed, and Configure Postie is visible under Options.

All mail settings are correct, as are user settings for those accounts from which I’d like to allow posts.

On Test Config I get the following:
————————————–

GD Library Test

1
Iconv Library Test

Only required if you want to support ISO-2022-JP

Missing iconv

————————————

* Is “Missing iconv” a big issue?

On Run Postie I get the following error:
——————————————-

CCGI encountered an error while attempting to execute this script:

Error Message: No such file or directory
Error Number: 2

This message usually indicates there is a problem with the script itself. Often this indicates either that the #! line of the script is incorrect, or the script was uploaded in binary mode instead of ascii mode. Check to make sure that the script does not have control-M’s at the end of every line. That will prevent it from executing. An easy fix that takes care of this most of the time is to put ‘#!/…/perl –’ instead of ‘#!/…/perl’ on the first line of the script. This is typically a problem if the script was edited or uploaded from a DOS/Windows/Macintosh station to a unix based server.

If you are not the owner of this script, please forward this error and the URL that caused it to the script owner. That is often the component in the URL right after /cgiwrap/.

==============================================

Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I’m sorry I am new to PHP and SQL but reasonably quick at learning. I’m hoping I have just missed something blatently obvious.

For your information WordPress is installed in /blog of my server, but all settings are set accordingly.

Regards,

Phil

Tre: I had the same problem.

In fact, after figuring out why, I have no idea how anybody else even got the thing working. It looks like config_form tries to use hardcoded links to /wp-content/plugins/postie which won’t work because of the .htaccess file in /plugins/ which restricts all access there.

I tried changing them to use /wp-admin/options-general.php?page=postie/ but that’s not working either.

Anybody else have any ideas?

I made this change to PostEmail in postie-functions.php
Changed:
‘post_title’ => $subject,
To:
‘post_title’ => preg_replace(”/’/”,”\\’”,$subject),

Stopped a SQL error I was getting.

I have an issue where I have isntalled postie but get error when the get_mail.php rns

Undefined Index: SCRIPT_NAME in d:\path\path\wp-settings.php on line 30

Undefined Index: SCRIPT_NAME in d:\path\path\wp-settings.php on line 43

After some time spent changing various settings, I solved my “no new mail” problem. The docs for WordPress say to fill in the full account name for the “Writing” configuration. Since Postie is based on wp-mail.php, I used the same settings for both pages. Turns out that for some reason, sendmail doesn’t accept the full address blogaddress@domain.com, but apparently doesn’t return a proper error, so the script returns that you have no new mail. When I changed the setting to just use “blogaddress,” both the wp-mail script and Postie worked fine.

I posted this to the WordPress Support board as well, where I fully expect to be flamed for not just knowing to ignore the documentation to begin with. :)

hey, whan i sende more than one artikel to my postie email and open the get_mail.php there are only one artikel that are postet the other are not postet they are dell ?
i hope someon can help me

This may be a silly question, but how do you get Postie to automatically process the mail/posting? I’ve got it all setup and working, but have to login and hit “Run Postie” button. I’ve got wp-cron and wp-cron-mail installed, and it happens to work fine with the default WP Mail Post feature. (Which doesn’t work when Postie is setup and configured - it sees and grabs the mail, but unable to post it.) But doesn’t trigger Postie

So, is there a postie config? Should I tweak cron-mail?? Or, are posts by email always supposed to be manually processed? (Which kind of defeats the whole purpose of post by email functionality, IMO)

In my Options -> Writing -> Update Services, we all have the default pinging service http://rpc.pingomatic.com/

My question is whether this gets automatically executed too, when the cron job does its rounds to run get_mail.php? i.e. does does the pingomatic service still get informed when it retreive a mail and post it? Or do we have to do the pinging do it manually?

As per my post above a few hours ago; I’ve got postie to work by putting “return true;” instead of “return();” as indicated by the FAQ. Not sure if I’ve stuffed anything up by doing this but at least postie now collects and process’ the email.
Unfortunately I’m having the same problem I posted back on Dec 1 with the text in my posts not being posted from my nokia phone (only image is posted). I had hoped this would be resolved with later versions of postie but appears not. Must be a problem with my specific phone which will soon be replaced.

If you have quotes in your mail subject (eg: spectacle de fin d’année ), postie fails to create the post ( the sql query made by postie is broken because of the quotes)

anyway, thanks for your plugin

THE FIX for the apostrophe problem was mentioned earlier in these comments. I just tried it and it worked on 0.9.9.3.2! Thanks divinity. Here it is..

Quick and dirty fix for the “apostrophe in subject” bug:

in postie-functions.php:

search for: $subject = GetSubject($mimeDecodedEmail,$content);
in next line add: $subject = addslashes($subject);

Hello,
I get
#!/usr/bin/php -q
Missing Configuration For Mail Server

Can anyone help with taht one???
Thanks
Andy

I setup postie and activating the get_mail.php file through the dashboard which works fine. I’ve setup a cron job “lynx -dump http://www.domain.com/wp-content/plugins/postie/wp-mail.php” and I receive an e-mail that says “/bin/sh: /usr/bin/lynx: Permission denied”.

Does anyone have a suggestion on what to do?

Thanks!
Tim

UGH. Great plugin man, however the POSTIE DIV class is not showing up at all. This problem makes me wanna vomit. Its a fucking great plugin.. yet I am completely disabilitated by this bug. I have tried all suggestions from up top, to no avail, I guess i am going to start having to dig up older versions, and continuing the unbroken code myself. PLEASE HELP.

Hello!

sorry to trouble you, but im at my wits end. the plugin is fantastic,
everything works.
unfortunately im in japan and my sysadmin has flat out rejected the
idea of installing iconv.
postie cant find the function and doesnt put up the email.]

is there anything i can do from the userside?
thank you!!

david

Hey TomatoMan.. any chance of adding my suggestion to your patched version? I mean I can do it myself but if you are already adding new patches then I may as well use yours if you do it.
Just probably a preg_match for =^M at the end of the line to wipe it out or something :)
From posted above:
————–
Equals signs.
When I post from my mobile I almost always get equals signs at the end of each line in my posts:

The Real Estate agency said the usual sale time is 30 to 60 days so I will =
be moving out soon.

I know… its not WordPost it\’s WordPress :)

I had some problems with running this using cron too. For some reason when the script was run through cron it would post, but wouldn’t set it to publish so it wasn’t visible until the author or admin when in and published it. However, If I just ran the script from the Options page it posted fine.

Here was my solution, I decided since the script worked correctly when I ran it from the website I would do just that, run it from the website every time. So, I put an iframe in my footer with the script in it. I set the iframe to dimensions of 0 x 0 and removed the border, so it didn’t appear on the page. This way the scripted is run every time someone visits the site. That’s real-time enough for me.

Hey Dirk,

Thanks for maintaining such a useful plugin. FYI, there’s a bug in postie-functions.php. It doesn’t SQL escape the subject. Here’s the diff:
56c56
$subject,
—
> ‘post_title’ => preg_replace(”/’/”,”\\’”,$subject),

(This also opens up a potential SQL injection vuln)

Hy,

is it possible with postie to fill out a user defined field for the blog entry?
I am not the scripter, but i am very happy if this works, because i want to take photos on the road and then write a user defined gmap with my gps coordinates to the article (with the plugin http://david.davies.name/weblog/wordpress-plugins/technotags-plugin/) to show where i am on my bicycletours.

Thanks for answer; Regards Sven!

Since I have multiple people posting, is there a way to set it so we can put the author id or something and it will use it?

is it possible to add custom fields to the mail?

@aba, yeah, I was just wondering the same thing. I wanted to be able to tag posts. Anyone know?

For all those trying to get gmail to work with postie, I had to make some changes in the postieIMAP.php file to get it to work. I can’t post code in this box or this blog craps itself.

See my solution at:
http://www.jimhodgson.com/2006/07/19/postie/

By the way, I had to submit this stupid post like ten times due to your blog not escaping code in comments, and your awful illegible captcha image.

I’m having an awful time trying to figure out the proper “subject” syntax.

if I put subject “test message” (no quotes) the subject on the blog might be “test message”.
if I put “test message [onology] chances are good there will be no subject at all.
If I put “[onology] test message” again, no subject. Same with dashes same with almost every config I can think of.
What on earth have I done wrong?

This plugin works fine with spanish characters. I don´t have access to cron so I’m trying to use wp-cron and cronless postie. Will it work?

WordPress 2.0.3/Postie 0.9.9.3.2
I had a problem with HTML in subject. (For example the Swedish Å (Å), Ä (Ä), Ö (%Ouml;) )
I changed the following ‘if’ in function GetSubject(&$mimeDecodedEmail,&$content) in file postie-functions-php:
if (!$config["ALLOW_HTML_IN_SUBJECT"]) {
to:
if ($config["ALLOW_HTML_IN_SUBJECT"]) {

It looks like my earlier mail messed up so here it is again:

WordPress 2.0.3/Postie 0.9.9.3.2

How to use postie with wp-cron:

I use wp-cron to get mail with postie. I made a copy of get_mail.php (named it get_mail2.php) and made the following additions (after php-starttag):

/*
Plugin Name: Postie wp-cron plugin
Plugin URI:
Description: Activates the get_mail function each 15 minutes
Version: 0.5
Author: Håkan Carlström
Author URI: http://www.familjencarlstrom.se
*/

add_action(’wp_cron_15′, ‘get_mail2′);

function get_mail2() {

And before php-endtag:
}

Then activate it in WordPress/Plugins

Seems not but could you confirm that it is not possible to set up sort of password to ensure that the email coming is not a spam and is a real blog post?

If you do want to post 3gp and mp4 files in your blog then your provider should support this
In the Helm Control Panel of my provider I can prepare a list of custom MIME types that are apllicable for my for domain.
Some types like wmv are almost all the time working.

Hi there,

Postie is great - thanks for your hard work.

Have you or anybody else figured out the carriage return issue? That is the only issue I have been able to find! :)

Thanks again,
Steve

Hi

are you able to incorporate adsense in the email to be sent to the Blog post?

that would help

Im using the Watermark plugin (http://www.malcherek.de/index.php?seite=wordpress.php) for my ordinary image uploads, but that one doesnt seem to work with Postie.
Have anyone gotten those two plugins to work together?

Hello all.

Cheers for the plugin - ace.
cheers also to the helpful people on this board.

I do need some help to get me over the last installation hurdle. I noticed this up the board a while…

“Tom:

If you’re not using cron yet, make yourself a file called “crontab.txt” to hold your various cron jobs. If you want to have Postie run every five minutes, use a line like this:

*/5 * * * * /usr/bin/lynx –source http://YOURSITE.com/wp-content/plugins/postie/get_mail.php >/dev/null 2>&1

(remove any CRs the post wrapping puts in, if there are any)

Then activate it from the shell like this:

crontab crontab.txt

Confirm that it “took” by typing:

crontab -l

You should see your cron file again.

Before you automate it, you should make sure it works by running it manually from the command line (the “/usr/bin/lynx –source http://YOURSITE.com/wp-content/plugins/postie/get_mail.php” part) - if there are any errors, go into further troubleshooting until it runs cleanly. ”

I know I need this badly, but I have no idea where to put this file, where the ’shell’ is and where to type ‘crontab-1′. Eeep!

Hi,

I’m trying to configure Postie but I gen an Internal server error when i manually run it (both using the “Run Postie” button and directly calling the get_mail.php script).

I use thunderbird to send mail, my Wordpress version is 2.0. The Postie test seems to pass (but iconv), report follows:

Postie Configuration Test

Postie is in /web/htdocs/www.claudiobergero.it/home/blog/wp-content/plugins/postie

GD Library Test
1

Iconv Library Test
Only required if you want to support ISO-2022-JP
Missing iconv

Clock Tests
This shows what time it would be if you posted right now
GMT:2006-08-21 07:31:37
Current:2006-08-21 09:31:37

Mail Tests
These try to confirm that the email configuration is correct.
Test Result
Connect to Mail Host Yes

File Tests
Test Result
Photos Directory Exists Yes
Files Directory Exists Yes
Photos Directory Writable Yes
Files Directory Writable Yes

Image Tests
Three images should be here - they are the test files
(the images show correctly)

This worked: From WordPress forum: Digory on June 28, 2004:
=======================================
To fix, edit wp-includes/class-pop3.php, and change this line:
if($this->RFC1939) {
to this:
if(!$this->RFC1939) {
(add exclamation point).
================

Eliminated error: The server said - POP3: premature NOOP OK, NOT an RFC 1939 Compliant server.

Perhaps this should be in Postie install and test doc. Or, maybe it is and I missed it.

Postie is now working happily.

Creag

a great plugin. However, there seems to be a severe security risk here — I was able to attach exeutive files and PHP scripts in the email post, and then run them off the web. This means if someone figured your WP write-in email address and fakes your return address, he will be able to take over your server. I would strongly urge you to add filters to prevent such possibilities. thank you!

Great plugin! thanx much.

0){
//$data = POP3::pRetr($conn, 1); //

or

http://www.xpertmailer.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=47

check it out
jahid h khan
dhaka, bangladesh
011-99443456

I would very much like to create new categories when posting by email. Is there a simple way to do this?

Hi,

Postie is not working for me. I am getting following reply when I click “Run Postie” in the configure postie option.

#!/usr/bin/php -q

Connecting to mail.persistent.co.in:993 (imap-ssl))
Mail Connection Time Out

Common Reasons:

Server Down

Network Issue

Port/Protocol MisMatch

The Server said:Can’t open mailbox \{mail.persistent.co.in:993/service=imap/ssl/notls/novalidate-cert}: no such mailbox

Configuration used:
Postie version: 0.9.9.3.2
Wordpress: 2.0.3

I am trying to access emails from IMAP-SSL server.
Platform: Windows-XP

Thanks,
Amit.

Do imagemagick work anyone?

When im use imagemagick and doing “test config” then these image dont resize it still said 0×0 and error say

“Warning: Division by zero in /home/wds/wds.org.nz/wp-content/plugins/postie/postie-functions.php on line 1040

Warning: Division by zero in /home/wds/wds.org.nz/wp-content/plugins/postie/postie-functions.php on line 1040

Warning: Division by zero in /home/wds/wds.org.nz/wp-content/plugins/postie/postie-functions.php on line 1040

Warning: Division by zero in /home/wds/wds.org.nz/wp-content/plugins/postie/postie-functions.php on line 1040

Warning: Division by zero in /home/wds/wds.org.nz/wp-content/plugins/postie/postie-functions.php on line 1040

Warning: Division by zero in /home/wds/wds.org.nz/wp-content/plugins/postie/postie-functions.php on line 1040″

Hmmm ?

YAY i’ve fix! its need safe mode off

doh! :)

Thanks!

Hi

I have a problem. I use postie, and Authorized Addresses. Which makes perfect sense. I can send mails ant it works. I can also send SMS (as mail via my phone provider) this also works. But when I send MMS as e-mail I have a problem. MMS messages from my phone provider comes with an odd and ever changing address. There for I need to be able to use wildcards in the Authorized Addresses field. It doesn’t work now, but can it be made possible?? What I need is to allow all mails from *@mms.tdc.dk.

J;-)

Found a solution to There does not seem… message!

Error Message: There does not seem to be any new mail

This error is a bit of a misnomer - the test just checks to see if anything was retrieved.

If you’re feeling adventuresome open wp-mail.php and search for:

$count = $pop3->login(get_settings(’mailserver_login’), get_settings(’mailserver_pass’));

Change the lines following it to something like:

if (0 == $count) :
echo “There does not seem to be any new mail. \n”;
echo “count = $count \n”;
echo “$pop3->ERROR \n”;
exit;
endif;

You’ll then be presented with a more informative message.

One possibility (was in my case) is the mail server refuses connections that attempt to provide an unencrypted password - like POP3. If your webserver and email server are on the same physical computer you can specify localhost or 127.0.0.1 as the mail server. That traffic is assumed to be OK without encryption because it never traveled across the network.

minor bug: when sending a post with a ” ‘ ” in the subject (e.g. don’t, he’s) …a sql error is produced and the post is thrown out

fix
added
$subject = mysql_real_escape_string($subject);

to postie-functions.php

context:
$post_categories = GetPostCategories($subject);
$comment_status = AllowCommentsOnPost($content);

//added so that subject lines with “‘” such as “don’t” will not error out
$subject = mysql_real_escape_string($subject);

$details = array(
‘post_author’ => $poster,
‘post_date’ => $post_date,
‘post_date_gmt’ => $post_date_gmt,
‘post_content’ => preg_replace(”/’/”,”\\’”,$content),
‘post_title’ => $subject,
‘post_modified’ => $post_date,
‘post_modified_gmt’ => $post_date_gmt,

thanks

Please ignore my previous post - it’s now working !

sorry I did not mean to double post. I honestly couldnt see my previous (september 19th) post.

Hi,
thank you for this nice plugin, all work fine but I have a little problem:
I use the “Image CSS Class” and when I start postie from the option-page the thumb inside the entry have the class. When postie start from a cronjob, the thumb have no class parameter in the img-tag. Maybe you can help me, I don’t know why and can’t fix this problem.

Thank you
Mike

Hello, great plugin! A couple of us are having problems with blackberrys and paragraphs/line breaks. Boris explains it nicely here:

http://www.bomega.com/2006/09/20/using-my-new-blackberry-to-blog/

I’ve had a look into postie-functions.php and found several lines related to stripping extra line breaks (e.g. line 617-619) but I’m not an expert coder so I don’t want to break it.

If someone has found an answer already or has any ideas at all, that would be really great.

“tagging is established — and categorizing is obsolete.” (Michael Wöhrer @ http://sw-guide.de/wordpress/category-tagging-plugin/)

i was wondering if there might be a way to have Postie route posts via tags rather than putting [this] or :this or -this- in the subject?

One could then setup a relevant news alert with Google Alerts and have Gmail filters setup to catch, tag then forward the alert to the relevant category, making WP a automated term aggregator / archive.

I try to manually run postie and get this message:

#!/usr/bin/php -q

Connecting to mail.coveno.com:110 (pop3))
Mission complete, message 1 deleted.
Mission complete, message 2 deleted.
Mission complete, message 3 deleted.
Mission complete, message 4 deleted.
Oops POP3 delete: Command failed []\n

The email is being sent from autoresponders from different sources.

I was not able to get the built-in WP email function to work, so I really appreciate this. It worked perfectly when installed at one server, but when I installed it at another (same hosting company), the Configure Postie tab generated this error:
Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /home/webdoc/public_html/wp-content/plugins/postie/postie-functions.php on line 1885

Just DL’d this to check it out, spotted a bug as I was reading the source. In postie-functions.php, in function GenerateImageFileName(), line 812 sez:

if ($type == “jpeg”
|| $type = “pjpeg”) {
$type = “jpg”;
}

The second compare is actually an assignment; I think you mean
|| $type == “pjpeg”) { …

Loving the plugin. I can upload all my pictures from my phone with no problem, but everytime I try to upload a video, I get problems.

I’m currently using verizon, which I believe uses .3gp files. Postie recongizes the mail and makes the post (which shows the quicktime icon and a link to the file) but whenever you try to click on it or view the video file, it displays a message saying that the file isn’t on the server.

I’d really love to be able to put videos directly from my phone to my blog, but this minute error is the only thing standing in my way. Any ideas?

In regards to the gmail issue, go here:

http://groups.google.com/group/hosted-misc/browse_thread/thread/76bc7e612ebecaee/3d2da94c91329908?#3d2da94c91329908

How would I display all headers, except for maybe the ‘to’ and ‘from’ addresses, in a message posted through Postie?

Thanks.

Forgot to Subscribe to comments, please delete…and wrote the wrong email address

fixed many many bugs in this code, simple typos, wow.

but the biggest part is that I made mp4 work, anyone who wants my code, let me know.

Does postie work with sound recordings? like, i record a message on my phone, send it to my blog, and it gets posted?

Love the plugin, worked fine, and even better with some CSS-tweaks.
However, I couldn’t figure out yet, how to add tags … (same as aba & Jason requested … some month ago.).
Any solution yet?

Very great application-extention is this, thanks very much!
I just have one problem. All my attachments are corupted. An image of a tree will look like a painting of picasso. (or a broken television) :-)

Im using wordpress 2 and the newest postie.
My mailserver is mailtraq

Thanks in advance

Argh. I got so fed up with this whole gmail thing that I got a free pop account at bluebottle.com and will now send my blog emails to secretaccount@bluebottle.com. Postie worked fine with it.

Hello…my issue is that when the cron job updates, the body content doesn’t come through. Just the subject line which is the title. WHen I run postie manually, it all works out, but not with the cron job. Any idea?

Hi -

Postie appears to have a SQL injection problem (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL_Injection). If you are still actively maintaining Postie, then where that happened is that $subject is not escaped for single-quotes.

If you need to, take a look at my article for more information.

http://www.yinsochen.com/blog/2006/12/08/postie-sql-injection/

Hi there -

My name is Johannes and i’m maintaining a photoblog-plugin for WP:
http://johannes.jarolim.com/yapb

Some of my users requested post-by-email functionality and recommended your plugin.

May there be a possibility to cooperate? Means i’ve a plugin with a main focus on turning wordpress into a photoblog and you have a working post by email plugin with attachment decoding (Plus all the pop3-, imap- and decoding-KnowHow on how to bypass all that pitfalls that arise with these topics).

Is there a chance you add one or two hooks in your email-processing-code so YAPB may react on received mails with image attachments?

Thanks for your answer and
Greets from Salzburg,

Johannes

Hello all,

I have a very peculiar issue happening. I have gotten Postie to work with Lightbox and when I trigger get_mail.php manually in the configuration tab, it works perfectly. However, when Crontab is used to trigger get_mail.php, all the styling is stripped from the image, thereby removing the Lightbox tag with the rest of them.

How could this happen? How could Cron affect it like that?

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I have been struggling with this for a week now. Ugh.

Hi, sorry if this is a newbie question/issue/problem.

My posts are just showing up as pages of inline text. Happens whether I post from my Mac email client or Blackberry. Anybody got any suggestions? Any help is appreciated.

Here’s a link to a sample post:

http://www.jeff-hopkins.com/JeffHopkinsPostieTest.rtf

POSTIE: 0.9.9.3.2
WORDPRESS: 2.0.2
Mail.App: 2.1
Blackberry Pearl 8100

I looked at the existing vodafone adjustments and found that it didn’t work for current Vodafone NL messages. If changed the behaviour to strip everything after an ‘end-tag’. This works just like the message-start tag, but then it strips everything after the tag. In my case i choose ‘@@@’

I hacked this in very ugly, but would it be possible to include an configurable ‘end-of-message’ tag in a future release? I think this would be very great!.

One other question: How can i use variables in the authorized email access list? When i use vodafone mms to mail, the sender mail is random (randomchars@mms2mail@vodafone.nl).

This is great! Thanks for the plugin. I was going nuts trying to get the mail post that comes with WordPress to work as I liked and thought I was going to have to put something together, but this has so many more features than I could have ever done. Thanks!

problem under wordpress 2.0.7:
i noticed if i email a post with words such as “don’t” or “can’t” in the subject postie will wig out when trying to update the database. the fix was to change line 58 in postie-functions.php from:
‘post_title’ => $subject,

to:
‘post_title’ => preg_replace(”/’/”,”\\’”,$subject),

-g

I’m wondering if anyone has confirmed postie working with WP 2.1??

Thanks!

Postie don’t work in the new Wordpress 2.1

Please, upgrade.

Salvador

the reason i made that last post was that after ugrading to wordpress 2.1, i could not get postie working, i kept getting a message that says

‘Postie Only Works For Word Press 2.0 and above.’

After coming here for a couple of days looking for solutions i dived into the postie files and i commented out the if block that contains that string and it worked.
I am no coder but at least i could recocgnise the login (fortunately)
The files in which i commented out that block were ..

postie_test.php
get_mail.php and
config_form.php

good luck everyone and Thank goodness for Postie

for wp 2.1 changed postie-functiosn.php testwp fn to function TestWPVersion() {
if (get_bloginfo('version').substr(0,1) >= 2) {
return true;
}
return false;
}

I want to use ssl but it’s not in my php install, i suppose, so I downloaded an rpm and unpacked imap.so and put in it my root. I edited php.ini to extension_dir = /home/content/u/s/e/user/html/
extension=imap.so
But the configure postie page still says the pop3-ssl is not available.

I switched ot the godaddy email and added “addslashes” to the content, subject, and mime attachement (and added txt and html attachments) and it works great. just need to figure out the cron.

When trying to use Postie on the current version of WP, 2.1, the following error:

“Warning!

Postie only works on on Word Press version 2.0 and above”

Postie does not work for WP 2.1 !! What needs to be done to get it to work?

Just had a little problem with function TestWPVersion(): Postie seems to consider that WP 2.1 is not 2.0 or greater.

It turns out that changing “if (get_bloginfo(’version’).substr(0,1) == 2)” to “if (substr(get_bloginfo(’version’),0,1) == 2)” does the trick.

Postie failed to work after upgrading to WP 2.1 due to an issue with the version checking function in postie-functions.php.

The original function:

function TestWPVersion() {
if (get_bloginfo(’version’).substr(0,1) == 2) {
return true;
}
return false;
}

needs to be changed to

function TestWPVersion() {
if (get_bloginfo(’version’).substr(0,1) >= 2) {
return true;
}
return false;
}

to allow it to work for versions of WP greater than 2!

Thanks for a great plugin

I had upgraded to Wordpress 2.1 only to have Postie tell me that I’m supposed to be using 2.0 or greater… and it stopped working.

I tried using the built in, but it just hurts.

I was getting an error message in postie-0.9.9.3.2 that said something about it needing wordpress version 2.0 or higher. Since I’m running 2.1, it seemed something was wrong. DISCLAIMER although I do some scripting, PHP is not my fort.

In postie-functions.php I found:

function TestWPVersion() {
if (get_bloginfo(’version’).substr(0,1) == 2) {
return true;
}
return false;
}

I changed it so that it was greater than or equal to:

function TestWPVersion() {
if (get_bloginfo(’version’).substr(0,1) >= 2) {
return true;
}
return false;
}

It seems to be working better now.

If someone else has had this problem, or is a PHP programmer, I would love some feedback on this change I made, thanks!

-Ken

Hello,
since I installed wordpress 2.1 (german version), I am unable to configure postie. I get the message: “Postie only works on on Word Press version 2.0 and above”
the version of postie is 0.9.9.3.2
Thanks for help
Karin

Will you be upgrading so that Postie works with Wordpress 2.1 ?

Thanks for the plugin. It’s works perfectly. The only one problem is I’m getting an email from wp-mail in my admin account. It comes about 30 times a day and it says “Ooops POP3 connect: No server specified”. Anyone knows what the problem is?

I installed postie and tried to update the settings but I always get the error: You don’t have permission to access /wp-content/plugins/postie/config_handler.php on this server.

I tried ‘reset’, ‘run postie’ and ‘test’ and they all work… What can be wrong?

Thanks for any help.

I am a native german speaker so I try and hope you understand.

I have WP2.1 installed and want to use your Plugin, all gone good. That meens installation for so far more I couldn’t do until now because I get a message that it will only work on WP 2.0 an above.
So I will ask you.

Is it possible to use it on WP2.1 too?

Postie is great! But I have one problem with it. I want to include plain text messages e-mailed to the blog which contain URLs formatted with angle brackets as per the Appendix of RFC 1738
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1738.txt
“APPENDIX: Recommendations for URLs in Context”
Whether I set Postie to accept HTML or plain text, the brackets are faithfully retained in the post, which results in the URLs not being visible as they are perceived as invalid html tags.

Could postie handle them by either stripping out the brackets, or by converting them to entities (e.g. < and > )

Examples:
for this URL: http://library.ust.hk/cgi/db/pqd-pubid.pl?37141
1 -
2 -

Thanks for any suggestions!

I\’ve noticed that you\’ve started development on a Wordpress 2.1 compatible plugin. And I saw you where able to get one successful post done with it. Can we get a progress report? I\’d love a rough ETA but no biggie.

Para la gente que habla español:

He instalado el plugin y conseguido para correo con gmail, los pasos para conseguirolo en Ubuntu son:

1: Instalar php5-imap
sudo apt-get install php5-imap

2: Reiniciar el apache
/etc/init.d/apache2 restart

3: Descargar el plugin y descomprimirlo en la carpeta de wp-content/plugin/postie

4: En /plugin/postie/postieIMAP.php cambiar la linea 72 que es
$this->_connection = imap_open(”\{$server:$port$option}”,$login,$password);

por

$server_string = “{”.$server.”:”.$port.$option.”}INBOX”;
$this->_connection = imap_open($server_string,$login,$password);

5: Activar el plugin en la administración de wordpress.

6: Ir a Opciones->configure Postie y abajo del todo poner estos parámetros
Mail Protocol: POP3-SSL
Mail Server: pop.gmail.com
Puerto: 995

Usuarios y contraseña los de tu cuenta sin el @gmail.com, solo nómbre de usuario.

Dar a Actualizar Cambios y luego a Run Postie, entonces te saldrá una pagina muy sencilla que te dirá que no tienes correos o si los tienes, cuales son y se insertarán en el blog.

Thanks for your wonderfull plugin. I modified to work with WordPressMU [WPMU] 1.1 One thing i didn’t like and commented is the email attachments going to a seperate folder. This does not let the WPMU admin to limit space for per blog basis.
So in your future, I would be very happy if you make the attachments go to their respective upload folders in WPMU. Also I like your ideas of -Add ability to post to an existing page and -Support draft/private posts

Thanks again

when do you think this will work with 2.1?

Hi,

I tried installing postie on my new 2.1 install of wordpress (I assume it is 2.1 as the footer states 2.1). however when i try and go to the options for postie, I get “Postie only works on on Word Press version 2.0 and above”. Can anyone provide me a hint for this?

thanks

Using postie 0.9.9.3.2 with WP 2.1.1 (DE-version), Apache 1.3.32, PHP 4.4.4 and MySQL 4.1.16

after activating I wanted to configure postie, but it always told me that

Postie only works on on Word Press version 2.0 and above

…???
Looked into your code and found something:
File: postie-functions.php
Line: 1908
function TestWPVersion() {
if (get_bloginfo('version').substr(0,1) == 2) {
return true;
}
return false;
}

changed it to:
function TestWPVersion() {
if (substr(get_bloginfo('version'),0,1) == 2) {
return true;
}
return false;
}

Now works again.

greetings from germany
AndyK

hi!

I’ve used Postie for like a year now and it’s been working perfectly. But now, since the wordpress 2.1 version it doesn’t work anymore. I get this error message “Postie only works on on Word Press version 2.0 and above”.

Do you have any plans upgrading the script? Would be awesome. Please answer to my email.

Cheers!

Wow! I just received a “New Comment On: Postie” email for EVERY comment that has been left since August 10th, 2006 at 10:29 am. 150 emails…

Great work on the 1.1 version.

Still have a problem as my mms server greates random numbers as the email address when I send an mms. 79399018128@mms.tdc.dk for example.

I need to hack the script to make *@mms.tdc.dk work an be acceptable. Where in the plugin would I look at that?

Tx.

AndyK: I wanted to thank you — SO MUCH — for making this post here: http://www.economysizegeek.com/?page_id=395#comment-40883

I have very heavily modified the 9.9.3.2 version script and was VERY worried on seeing the “works only in wp 2.0 version” after upgrading my blog to WP 2.1.1

I thought that I had to make all the modifications again to the new version of postie (if there even was one).

It was great to see that there was a new version of postie, but it was even greater to see your comment.

Made a 1-minute mod to postie-functions.php and voila - I’m up an running again with my modded version.

Thank you again,
Roel

I uploaded Postie to the plugins folder of my WordPress 2.1 site, but when I tried to activate the Cronless Postie I received the error

Parse error: parse error, unexpected ‘}’ in /home/[my-path]/wp-content/plugins/postie/cronless_postie.php on line 52

Sorry about the bone headed typos - I’ve fixed both and updated the version number.

First of all - GREAT PLUGIN!!! - I really love this!
Second - I get an error mesage when i try to include a .3gp file that is 2MB. Is there any way to make Postie support larger videofiles?

just for info on postieIMP.php line 70, there is a missing ).

Love the plugin, have used it a long time…

Here’s my wish list…

I have some prominent people who will be guest-blogging for me. I have set up categories for their posts that will not be visible from the front page. They will post by email (thanks to Postie).

I really, really wish that I could configure Postie (or something) so that the user’s posts (via email) would automatically be assigned to a category I have chosen for them.

Yes, I know that they can do that in the subject, but these people are somewhat technically challenged (that’s not why they are using the WP editor in the first place) and are doing me a huge favor. I am so pleased that they would guest-blog, and I am trying to make the effort as painless as possible.

The users’ posts are going to different categories (depending on the user) so I can’t use the default.

Any suggestions? Anyone who knows more than I do able to hack something up?

Using Wordpress 2.10 with postie 1.1.1
unfortunately my webhosting company does not support iconv and yet this is required when Chinese emails are sent from outlook 2003(it incorrectly encodes email as Japanese and this cannot be changed)
how can i work around this, i dont think i can get iconv installed.

I have the lateste WordPress 2.1.2, the latest postie you have here on your site loaded on three of my sites. My mail setup is to pop and this all works fine for each site when I test it through your postie configuration screen.

Mailing a text only email (no attachements of pictures in jpg format) works fine, posted to site and rejected if not from the correct sender I have set in the postie options.

THE PROBLEM: if I attach an image, the mail gets dropped and I get the lovely reply “Mission complete, message 1 deleted.”

I noticed that the options have a listing for supported file types with only application and video. Looking into the code a bit and see that application should be enough for jpg files. I do not exclude any file types at all in the options.

I am not sure why or where it is dropping the images… does anyone else have this problem?

Thanks for your thoughts in advance! :-)

Jonathan,

Your fix does nothing for me, still getting the infamous message:

#!/usr/bin/php -q

MAKE SURE POP IS TURNED ON IN SETTING AT Gmail

Connecting to pop.gmail.com:995 (pop3-ssl))

OK - this issue bprhusky and I had appears to be related to gmail. I tried it with a regular pop3 mailbox and it works. :-)

To anyone who wants tagging to work, here is a hack. Change the PostToDB function in postie-functions.php to

function PostToDB($details) {
/* next line added by jdj@konjr 20070307*/
global $utw,$embedtags;
$config = GetConfig();
if ($config["POST_TO_DB"]) {
//generate sql for insertion
$_POST['publish'] = true; //Added to make subscribe2 work - it will only handle it if the global varilable _POST is set
$post_ID = wp_insert_post($details);

}
}


That’s for Ultimate Tag Warrior by the way.

I get this problem:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected ‘{’ in /fpgs/fpgshttpd/jonano/wp-content/plugins/postie/postieIMAP.php on line 70

Someone have a clue about how to fix this problem ?

–Jon

first off:
Parse error: parse error, unexpected ‘{’ in /fpgs/fpgshttpd/jonano/wp-content/plugins/postie/postieIMAP.php on line 70

Line 70 : if (eregi(”google”,$server) {

should be : if (eregi(”gmail”,$server)) {

But here is my question : This do not seem to fix my problem with gmail returning an error: The Server said:Can’t open mailbox {pop.gmail.com:995/service=pop3/ssl/notls/novalidate-cert}INBOX: invalid remote specification

Has gmail maby made some changes to the login?

look a little closer.. on the org. line the parenthesis is not closed. e.g it returns the error. (one closing parenthesis after $server on the org. line. should be to closing parenthesis)

here :
http://pastebin.ca/384834

This is the hole code so just copy and paste the hole thing ;)

Where and what permission need to be set to be “writable” for postie to work?

Losing CSS via cron - more info.

You can see the details here.

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/71314?replies=6#post-528908

Basically, when postie is invoked via cron, wp_insert_post() calls apply_filter, and one of those filters is wp_filter_post_kses, which seems to remove the CSS styling and the open_window popup for resized images. Anyone know how to tell postie to tell WP not to do that?

The new cronless postie works, but fails to stop working once it’s deactivated. You need to add a function to be run upon deactivation which will call:

wp_clear_scheduled_hook(’check-postie’);

To make it stop trying to check hourly after deactivating the plugin. You can use the register_deactivation_hook() function to run your function on deactivation.

Thanks about nice and useful - BUT IT REALLY DOESN’T GIVE A HINT THAT IT WILL MESS UP THE SELECTED INBOX!!!!

Well, I answered my own question about allowing new categories.

To do this, add the following after the closing parenthesis on line 1555 in postie-functions.php:

elseif ( $category = wp_insert_category(array(’cat_name’ => $wpdb->escape(addslashes($match))))){}

Thanks to your plugin, I was easily able to create an excellent Blog-By-Email application in C#.

Thanks very much!

Hi I installed Postie and added the files under wp-content/plugins/postie
all the files are in postie directory. Then logged in as admin and Activate “Postie” went to “Options” tab and clicked on the sub-tab “Configure Postie” to configure it, but it throws a error as below
please help me

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 393216 bytes) in D:\wamp\www\raaam\wordpress\wp-admin\upgrade-schema.php on line 101

I am running in Wordpress in Windows XP.

Thanks

How do you do? I regard as happy that it was able to meet with the excellent program like POSTIE. There is one request from me without plug-in development ability. At my site, the permission which can contribute the report by e-mail is given to “Contributor.”
At my site, the mail address for the contribution of the report is once changed at the one week for random contribution prevention. Each time, the mail address set up newly is told to the member in the report. If it can do, I will want to be automatic in the mail address for the contribution set to the mail address setting column of POSTIE, and to display on the profile page of the member with the authority more than Contributor. When it is the profile of people without the authority of e-mail contribution, I want to make description writing the position of the display for the method of the application authority taking of Contributor for the man below the authority of Contributor.
Can such a program be written easily?
The mail address used by POSTIE “is “Does it have the tag like?

Please give me advice.

In version 1.1.1, you’re missing a parenthesis on line 70 of postieIMAP.php.

So, do we just have to wait and hope somone response to our problems, how does this work?

Marc,
I had already found that fix on one of the wordpress codex pages. The test runs good, no problems. I send myself an email from an approved address, it arrives in the inbox. I click the run postie button and I get the message that there are no new emails (ie: mailbox empty). After hunting around all day it appears to be a problem with GoDaddy hosting restricting usage on their shared plans. I can’t send passwords in the clear, like postie and the wordpress email scripts do. I also can’t use gmail as an email host, or use ‘localhost’ as a server name. The closest thing I found was blogmailr.com, but it only posts the text, not pictures/video/attachments. Something about using xmlrpc instead of wp-mail.

I’m going to advise my friend to ditch godaddy as a hosting provider. They also don’t allow cron jobs, so I would have also have to search for a work around on that as well. I don’t use godaddy for my own site, which is why I didn’t have problems, but my friend on godaddy has had to rely on me to spend hours trying to get basic stuff to work.

Thank you for the plugin but i do have a problem with it.

If i go into my gmail account and send a message with an image its works ok, but if i use a contact form an i attach an image it doesnt show up, it doesnt get copied to the wp-photos folder either, i check the emails and the image is attached..

what could be the trouble?

i hope someone can help me out..

thank you

Phil

Argh.

”
Photos Directory Exists Yes
Files Directory Exists Yes
Photos Directory Writable No
Files Directory Writable No
”

and

”
#!/usr/bin/php -q The web server cannot write to / please correct the permissions

”

Any ideas on what permissions I need to correct to fix those above errors?

I installed the plugin, and tried to test it, but it says that I need to be an admin to test. I’m the admin, editor, author, I’m the only user! I’m using WP 2.1.

Mukunda,

You need to extend the memory limit in the php.ini file. This is descibed above somewhere in these comments. ;-)

@Rich thanks, that worked.

Now that I have run the test it seems to suggest that everything is working fine, but when I attempt to run the script (via the “Run Postie” button in the config options) it says that there seems to be no new mail though there is a new email in the inbox.

Mark up of 3GP.
I have 2 WP installs bothe with Posite, one is the older 1,6 (now not public) and a new version that is the latest 2.x.x. Both have postie running.

On the older I get the play controls showing, on the new one I get a link and the first frame. If I click the frame then its like clicking the link. New page and the quicktime player shows up.

Any idea?

Finally made it work =)
But certainly it was not an easy task. As long as I still remember all the things that I had to do I write them down in here. Maybe someone find it useful.

1) Okay, first comes the facts. I have Wordpress 2.0.9 Finnish version. What I wanted to achieve is to send my photos and email from Sony Ericsson k500 cell phone directly to my blog. I tried to use Flickr for this at first, but the email to blog service they provide is just not currently working.

2) I installed Postie 1.0.1 for Wordpress 2.0 and for my surprise I found out that I also got so called ‘Cronless Postie’, and that I need to hassle something with ‘crons’. Finally I found out that in my case I have to install WP-cron as well. So I did that too.

3) Since Cronless Postie did not work, I did what Otto said: http://www.economysizegeek.com/wp-mail/#comment-6748
After that the posting from cell phone started to work except the image div class, image class and UTF-8 support disappeared.

4) After a while I finally found how Keith Ford fixed the missing styling (and UTF-8) issues: http://www.economysizegeek.com/wp-mail/#comment-41996
So, by amputating one line in kses.php the plugin started to work as expected. I just don’t dare to think what this hack can cause in future :(

5) So finally everything seem to work. However, I was not happy with the results since I desperately try to get my blog to pass XHTML validators. Therefore I hacked posti-functions.php code and removed all the divs.

One issue is still unsolved. The emails send from Sony Ericsson uses UTF-8, which is nicely supported in the email content but the character encoding for subject/title is not supported. Does anyone know how to fix this as well?

I’m getting a strange message after i install, activate, and try to test:

Warning: file_exists() [function.file-exists]: open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/usr/bin/identify) is not within the allowed path(s): (/home/terywon6/:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php:/tmp) in /home/terywon6/public_html/blog/wp-content/plugins/postie/postie-functions.php on line 1810

anyone see this before or know what’s causing it? i’m rather confused!

Help!

I have a suggestion for more visually pleasing resizing. In ResizeImageWithGD() change imagecopyresized() to imagecopyresampled(). The resampling makes for a much smoother resize. I altered your 1.1.1 codebase and it worked great.

To place image at left and wrap text, try this:

Go into Admin
Presentation
Theme Editor

add at the bottom:

img.postie-image{border:none; float:left; clear:left; margin:4px;}

You can change left to right if so inclined.

I think I made a long comment here but now it’s gone. Was there something wrong with that?

Anyway, I just wanted to say that in postie-functions.php you can replace div’s with span’s if you want to put image box inline. And in some themes mimeTag can cause cause one unclosed p-tag.

Matthew, Daniel, I think you also have to do what Keith mentioned earlier:
http://www.economysizegeek.com/wp-mail/#comment-41996

Because of that bug you don’t have class tags in posts.

Hi,
thanks for the great plugin! Would anybody know how to add support for _blank tab in html? I have html in my email, but the “target=_blank” tag gets stripped out.

Thank you Keith for the tip that fix the missing CSS calls :)

Thank you Dale for ‘imagecopyresampled’ tweak. It works also other way round. You can enlarge small images a bit and they still look good enough =)

I have set the image width to 136 pixels and I am cropping the thumbnail images into 100×100px squares with ‘overlay hidden’ style definition. Therefore 120×160px images sent from my cell phone becomes enlarged to 136×181px.

@Andre:

Refer to the earlier comment left by Zeek:

http://www.economysizegeek.com/wp-mail/#comment-1737

A lot of useful info just on one page.. Cool guys!

Way cool plug in, so far I’m quite happy. One thing though… it resizes small images, as well as big ones. How do I only downsize big ones, but leave small ones alone?

the cron free method no workie either. :( I’ll work something out on that one though.

generic meridia .

Hello,

I am using Postie 1.0.1 and I am using a cron job. I currently have admin only posting rights. My admin e-mail address is @whogivesacrap.net. I also have a test account which is an @gmail account. This account also is in the list of allowed e-mail addresses. Today I tested it out and the post made it look like it was posted from the test account. Is there any way I can make it so that all posts are coming from my admin account no matter what e-mail address sent it?

Thanks!

I am using Postie 1.1.1 with WordPress 2.1.2

I find that I cannot edit the post created with Postie. How can I fix that? Also, I cannot control the resizing of graphic (smaller graphics are enlarged and cannot not be disabled)… Can anyone help?

Downloaded and got Postie working last week. Exactly what I needed!

Two features I’d love to see added to a future version of Postie:

1) Default author of posts. Handy for blogs with one author.

2) Default posting time. By default Postie gives the post a time stamp of when the email check was done and not when the email arrived. For those of us that don’t want a cron job running to check the email address, this is a bit inconvenient. I’d love to see an option to toggle between the post time being the email sent time or the email check time.

Everything else works great! Thanks a lot!

Can someone please give me some advice on how to fix or workaround this?

- WordPress 2.1.3, Postie 1.1.1
- Happens with any mail client
- Happens with any mail sent

Strange problem when using postie with Cron: new posts don’t seem to get a category and get listed as ‘concept’. When i run get_mail.php manually everything seems fine and posts are published as they should.

Postie is set up to allow any mail from Admins and Contributors, the default category is 3.

Putting a category name in the mail-subject doesn’t help, it still doesn’t get published.

Thanks for any help. ;-)
-lite.

Thank you for the plug-in! I use it quite a lot now. I try to use my email programm as an offline editor for my blog. I cannot use it flawless yet but I am working on it :) BTW, please add “backdating” to the feature wish list.

Interesting comments.. :D

postieIMAP.php has a parse-error: line 70 misses a “)” before the “{”

I don’t know if this was intentional or overlooked, but the filters for beginning (:start) a message and ending (:end) a message are coded differently. the begining filter uses string functions while the end filter uses regex pattern matching. For anyone who has had issues with :end not working from a mobile device, changing the end_filter to mimic the start_filter will fix this behaviour. Though I do not know if this will affect any other programming, I have been using this for two weeks now without any issues.

I had some trouble getting ImageMagick to work with postie 1.1.1.

It turned out there is a check when you configure postie in wordpress to see if you have GD installed otherwise it sets RESIZE_LARGE_IMAGES to 0. This check ignores to test if you have ImageMagic installed or if you have selected “Use ImageMagic” Yes.

The quick fix for this is to delete the if statement in postie-functions.php on line 390. IE ignoring the RESIZE_LARGE_IMAGES setting.

Well, it seems i figured out the Draft instead of Publish questions, I can do it by changing the post_status option to draft instead of the default publish in the postie-functions.php right?

Now i’ll see if i can’t figure out how to post to the sub categories….

-Chris

great plugin for wordpress, very nice.
best regard,

Is there a way not to lose carriage returns and other formatting of emails in the postings? Right now mine is just slapping it all in one big blob?

Thanks

Hi, I’ve made a very simple code change to use a kind of variables in allowed emails. You’ll be able to use something like *@mydomain.es or *@MMSmail.vodafone.nl addresses in Postie Configuration.

Remember this just works with * at the beginning.
Complete addresses will work as expected.

In postie-functions.php look for this function and change it to look like this:
-
function CheckEmailAddress($address) {
$config = GetConfig();
$address = strtolower($address);
if (!is_array($config["AUTHORIZED_ADDRESSES"])
|| !count($config["AUTHORIZED_ADDRESSES"])) {
return false;
}
//
//Allow addresses kind of *@mydomain.nl
foreach($config["AUTHORIZED_ADDRESSES"] as $value){
$mydress = substr($value,1);
$cont = strlen($mydress);
if(substr($address,-$cont,$cont)==$mydress){
return true;
}
}
//end of change
return(in_array($address,$config["AUTHORIZED_ADDRESSES"]));
}
-

Hope it helps, I love this plugin.
Bye, gas from Spain

For those having issues with connecting to gmail. In specific getting the following error:
Unable to connect. The server said - POP3 connect: Error [] []

I found the one problem for me was that my script was timing out before GMAIL could return the emails.

Once I set the scripts timeout limit to 0.
(set_time_limit(0);) Everything worked.

But be forewarn gmail may take a couple of seconds to process and return your emails.

Hope this saves someone a few programming headaches.

I’ve tried to get the configuration set up, without much luck on freeBSD. php5-extensions (/usr/ports/lang) solved the POP3-SSL availability issue (I think) and I’ve configured postie to check it’s account, but when I run the check script I get “#!/usr/bin/php -q” (alone, no quotes). No further message. Watching /var/log/maillog, I see no Login/Logout. If I check the account with squirrelmail, all works as expected for the same account.

There was some indication that compiling PHP5 with –with_SSL etc. would be necessary. true? Or does the right thing happen when php5-extensions is built and installed?

-David

Hi and thanks for a great plugin! I installed it today and it’s working great. I have two things (maybe related) with which I need help.

1) Whenever I edit a postie post which contains a 3gp video the embedded video disappears. It seems that all the html that starts with param… goes away.

2) When I run get-mail.php from the configure postie page everything is fine, but when I run it from cron (using wget or lynx) the embeded video does not get inserted, it only places a link to the video in the post. (I thought this might be related to the CSS style problem but I can’t be sure:(

Any suggestions?

I’m running postie 1.1.1 on wp 2.1.3

‘nuther update…I made the kses.php patch and everything works perfectly now. THanks again for a great plugin. I just have to remember not to give out the secret email address to my wife:)

Hi Folks, as a bloody newbie to blogging and php i have a question, wich perhaps can be solved easyly, but first of all: The idea and features of postie are abso-f******-lutely great! What a nice idea!

Well, i installed WP 2.2.2 DE-Edition yesterday together with the Postie 1.1.1. After testing and troubleshooting the getmail feature, i found, that line 70 of postieIMAP.php should read

if (eregi(”google”,$server)) {
instead of
if (eregi(”google”,$server) {

(watch the closing brathes) wich solved my problem in fetching the mails.

Furthermore i have the problem, that in the Postie Options page > Image Settings > Resize Large Images = Ja (Yes) will not bee saved, while cklicking on “update options” button.

The Config test says that
Convert exists No
Identify exists No

identify and convert are at /usr/bin and … yes, i have gd, php-gd and ImageMagick on my server :-))

Even a (perhaps cosmetic) issue appears all over the options page: Under the dropdown of Image Settings > Resize Large Images appears a text
Project-Id-Version: WordPress 2.0 POT-Creation-Date: 2006-01-03 09:54+0200 PO-Revision-Date: 2007-05-16 20:09+0100 Last-Translator: Olaf A. Schmmitz Language-Team: WordPress.de MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Plural-Forms: nplurals=2; plural=n != 1;

The weired text also appears under Forward Rejected Mail, Allow Subject In Mail, Allow HTML In Mail Subject, Allow HTML In Mail Body, Drop The Signature From Mail, Resize Large Images, Use ImageMagick, Start Image Count At 0 instead of the helpful hints.

There might or might not be a correlation of all these. I really would like to have the images resized. Your suggestions and hints are highly appreciated.

I have installed this but it is not able to work.
set up with google and then i tried to test config
it hangs at the “Connect to Mail Host ” stage.
and if i do a run postie manually then i get the following:
“#!/usr/bin/php -q Sorry but / is not a valid directory.”

Please advise

hey folks, if you’re having problems with with writable directories i.e. this error below

“#!/usr/bin/php -q The web server cannot write to / please correct the permissions”

create the wp-filez and wp-photos in the ROOT of your blog (i.e. http://booyaa.org/ or http://booyaa.org/blog which ever is relevant to your configuration). don’t both trying to create it in wp-content, it won’t work.

don’t forget to give these directories full permissions i.e. chmod 777

i hope this helps people

Trying various option but get…..

The Server Said POP3 connect: Error [13] [Permission denied]

Regards, Bill

Awesome work!
I am not fond of the stripping of carriage returns (reports and log entries). Comment out the line,
$content = FilterNewLines($content);
to preserve.

OK, just thought I’d share my workaround for preserving CSS styles when using “croned” Postie.

Diagnosis: When Postie is run remotely, i.e. not from the controlpanel, or not from your browser with the Wordpress cookies set, Wordpress pareses out lots of extras- I presume for security reasons. So, the fault is not really in Postie, it’s a FEATURE . . .

Cure: Since I have more experience in Perl than PHP I wrote a small script using LWP to create a mechanized (robot) UserAgent that will log on (POST to wp-login.php) get the cookie in its jar, and THEN make a GET
request to Postie at regular timed intervals.

It works well, although I suspect most Postie users would prefer to keep all this in PHP.

If anybody would like to give it a spin, I would post the script here, - it’s about 50 lines long.

Happy Postieing!

i’m using wordpress 2.2 and i cannot set it to to use pop ssl for gmail. is this going to be upgraded anytime soon

Hello! Good Site! Thanks you! mfufijdaslk

For anyone seeing the following issue (which I also experienced):

Photos Directory Exists Yes
Files Directory Exists Yes
Photos Directory Writable No
Files Directory Writable No
”

and

”
#!/usr/bin/php -q The web server cannot write to / please correct the permissions

I created the “wp-photos” & “wp-filez” folders under the website “wordpress” folder and changed their permissions to “777″. In the “Postie” configuration window I saved the settings for “Photo directory” & “File directory” with no trailing “/” (just “wp-photos” and “wp-filez”).

I was able to to run “Test Config” and saw that the folders were now seen as writable and when I manually ran Postie, it did not complain with errors.

Hope that helps

I installed the plugin into -
plugins/postie/
and then activated it via the Plugins page… but no, nadda, nothing under Options that has anything to do with Postie…
I was even dilligent and created the “wp-photos” & “wp-filez” folders at the WP root.

Where did I mess up?

I even downgraded to WP 2.1.3 after I couldnt locate the Postie config in 2.2

I’m having the same problem both Michael Goughnour and Erics posted earlier:

When I run the “Test config”-script, everything checks out fine.

When I e-mail a post without any attachments, the content gets posted with correct categories, subject and content.

Whenever I e-mail with attachments, however, nothing happens. The attached image is put in the correct folder (wp-photos), but nothing gets posted on the blog.

Running get_mail.php manually on an e-mail post with attached image turns out this:

Connecting to [mail server address]:110 (pop3))
Mission complete, message 1 deleted.
Confirming Access For [my e-mail address]
[My e-mail address] is authorized to post as the administrator

Message Id is :

Email has following attachments:

text plain

image jpeg

I am currently running WP 2.2.1 with Postie 1.1.1, but I had the exact same problem when I tried Postie last year, so I’m guessing this isn’t version related.

Has anyone been able to resolve this issue?

currently postie stores all the image and thumbnail to wp-photos folder. is it possible to ask postie to save all thumbnails to diffrent folder like a folder X in the wp-photos folder. possible .

there’s a division by zero error (v1.1.1) in postie-functions.php in function DetermineScale (line 1073) if you’re not careful. I changed it to this:

function DetermineScale($width,$height, $max_width, $max_height) {
if (!empty($max_width) && $width) {
return($max_width/$width);
}
else if (!empty($max_height) && $height) {
return($max_height/$height);
}
return(1);
}

WP2.2.1. I can’t seem to download postie 1.1.1. I arrive on a site called Geo Visitors ?

WP2.2.1. Just upgraded postie to the latest version 1.1.1 (sorry for the post on the missing download link), but the Run Postie keepts on saying there is no new mail. Version 1.0.1 had the same, but was not ment for WP2.2, so I thought this would solve it, but no luck. The config test is overall positive, I can see no error.
I also have the Evermore plugin activated. I have read somewhere there would be problems of compatibility beteen the two ?

Running WordPress 2.2.1 and trying to get Postie to automatically post my emails, but it’s not working. I set up a cron job with the help of my hosting company (bluehost.com) to go to “http://oldfishandlemonade.com/iphone/wp-content/plugins/postie/get_mail.php” but it still does not work correctly. I really need someone to post a way to fix this or a workaround for a total NOOB to cron jobs. Also, I don’t understand the instructions for cronless postie. Manually going to the page above works and posts the emails, but I cannot figure out how to get it to post automatically. Any and all advice is GREATLY appreciated. I wish there was better documentation for this plugin. Please help me!

Whatever I try I get the same message “There does not seem to be any new mail”. Test configis ok. WP2.2.1/Postie 1.1.1. Below is an example of a mail header. If you need more info please e-mail me at jolato@pandora.be. I use Thunderbird 1.07 as a mail client.

———
Return-path:
Envelope-to: tnwblog@patrizianorellibachelet.com
Delivery-date: Sun, 08 Jul 2007 10:44:43 -0600
Received: from hoboe1bl1.telenet-ops.be ([195.130.137.72])
by box180.bluehost.com with esmtp (Exim 4.63)
(envelope-from )
id 1I7ZsI-0003gV-3a
for tnwblog@patrizianorellibachelet.com; Sun, 08 Jul 2007 10:44:42 -0600
Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1])
by hoboe1bl1.telenet-ops.be (Postfix) with SMTP id 48749D4034
for ; Sun, 8 Jul 2007 18:44:41 +0200 (CEST)
Received: from [213.118.188.102] (dD576BC66.access.telenet.be [213.118.188.102])
by hoboe1bl1.telenet-ops.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A49AD401E
for ; Sun, 8 Jul 2007 18:44:41 +0200 (CEST)
Message-ID:
Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:44:43 +0200
From: “joicol@telenet.be”
User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923)
X-Accept-Language: en-us, en
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: tnwblog@patrizianorellibachelet.com
Subject: test
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Got it going. I like your banned files section of the plugin configuration, but is there an opposite? I would like a field where I could allow ONLY emails with “photo.jpg” to appear.

Thanks.

Looks promising, but no configuration instructions found. The read me has absolutely no useful info. This host site discusses use issues, but not how to configure. These blogs indicate an Options page, but I find none after activation. Very frustrating.

Hi,

I am getting rather frustrated. I thought in this day and age blogging by email (or mobile email) would be pretty much standard. It seems not. So thank you for your efforts keeping postie updated.

I am using WP2.2 and didn’t have any luck with their built in ‘blog by email’ so I have configured postie instead. My emails are delivered and posted, but all show up as MIME whether send as HTML, plain text, HTML with image imbedded ot whatever from Outlook and my mobile POP3 email. The only post that was correct was one sent from my mobile phone without an image.

I have tried with the postie1.1.1zip and also with the http://ragingliberal.com/?p=784 postie-functions.php fix. But with no change.

You can see the results at http://www.bradbury.biz/photos/

Can someone kindly suggest where I am going wrong?

Thanks in advance
Andy

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I cannot get the 3gp files to play too. It looks like file is embedded but when i click on it it tries to open link to wp-filez directory, and the directory is empty.

thanks for the great work thou

Localisation
I updated the config_form.php to support localization. The postie.pot-file was also updated to support this. Created Swedish po and mo-files. This can be downloaded in the rarfile at
http://www.familjencarlstrom.se/WordPress/2007/07/25/sprakfiler-till-postie-111/lang/en/