Auto Email Posts with subject and body working

After several hours of experimenting, I seem to have have auto email posting working with Subject and Body text coming in as well.

Here is what I’ve found:

I upgraded to version 2.5, but I am not positive that the upgrade was the solution. I think I may have been made some mistakes in my earlier testing. Some or all of these things may work in earlier versions.

1. You must use “Plain Text” format in whatever email client you are using. In Gmail you change this using a link just above the body of the mail. In Outlook, you set this using the “Options…” button on the toolbar. Doing this got my Subject and Body coming in to Word Press. Using Rich Text or HTML formatting resulted in ONLY the Subject making it into the post.

2. For auto posting. I used the iframe code method and placed the code at the very bottom of the footer.php file for my theme. It started working immediately.

NOTE: Make sure you are editing and uploading the correct footer.php. I believe that some of my early testing may have been user error. I may have edited a footer from the default theme and updated the footer from my current theme. Obviously that won’t work.

3. The “Send From” email domain also seems to be a factor. It seems that 2.5 will accept email posts from anyone who knows the “Secret” posting email address, BUT it will only Auto-Publish posts whose “Send From” email domain is the same as the blog domain.

In my case when I sent a post from [email protected] it made it to word press, but I then had to review and post it manually using the Admin “Manage” tools. When I changed my “Send From” email to [email protected] it was automatically posted.

I haven’t had time to fully test everything, but maybe this will be of some help to some of you.