Blog By Email – invalid sender

I have not used this since testing it early on, but one problem I had was spam mail which found its way into my Inbox ultimately ended up as posts in my blog! I assume this would prevent that.

Hm, first I tried the original wp-mail.php (1.3alpha3) – there it didn’t matter, which sender address I used.
Than I found anywhere a better wp-mail.php (which the possibility for picture-attachements) – and this brought the same message (“Invalide sender”) to me.
The solution was simple: this wp-mail.php looked in the database to the mail addresses. As soon as I used my regulary admin address all things worked fine.

Sorry, I thought you knew it was checking that way and I was just explaining why it did.

OK. I got it.
Here is my understanding of how it works –
1. Create an email account for [email protected]
2. Enter the login info for this account into Options | Writing screen
3. Create a new wordpress user. If you are going to send stuff to post from [email protected], enter this email address.
4. Set bill’s user level high enough to give post permissions
5. Send email To [email protected]
From [email protected]
6. Run https://www.myblog.com/wordpress/wp-mail.php to see it work.
7. Set up a cron job (there goes that searching again) to run wp-mail.php on a regular basis.
Thanks everyone.