Siberian

I just went through a couple hours of banging my head with this plugin, and the cause of my problems was pretty dumb on my part. I’m using WordPress 3.01 and Postie 1.41 on a fresh install (no extra plugins).

The short answer is that the first thing I did when I got into Postie config was change the name of the admin on the USER tab of Postie. Where it says “Admin username: ” the default is admin I think, but I changed it thinking that it was going to affect how the name appeared when it was posted to the site. In retrospect this was really dumb, but there it is. This must exactly match the name of the admin account on your site, especially if you are going to allow anyone to post.

Some other observations.

Run Test Config every time you update something in Postie config. My best guess is that if the test config is working, your problems are probably related to linking user accounts between Postie and WordPress.

I have mine set up to accept all incoming emails under the USER tab. I want this because I have a variety of people from a variety of email accounts posting to my site, all aggregating into the admin account pending my approval before they appear live. However, I discovered that if I wanted a specific person to post via email and have it linked to a specific WordPress account I needed to use the check box to select that person’s user group in “Roles that can post” (eg, Editor). Once I did this and included that user’s email address in the Authorized Addresses, it seemed to work fine. Now anyone can post to my site, having it posted as admin. However, specific people are also set up to post to specific accounts at the same time.

writers 1-50 send email anonymously, and are posted to the admin account
writer 51 sends email and it gets posted with their WordPress name (his email is the only one in the authorized addresses list)

Hope this helps someone.

I had an issue that was giving me errors similar to what is in this thread. Suddenly, and without any changes to my WordPress 2.8.4 installation, I could no longer edit, add posts, disable plugins, etc.

The solution for me was that my wp_options table in my database was corrupted. Once I repaired that table, everything started working again.