Post Office - Moblogging for Movable Type
Post Office is a plugin for Movable Type that allows users to post to their blog via email. It works by connecting Movable Type to an existing email account, like GMail or any POP or IMAP compliant mailbox, and periodically scanning for messages to post. Each user can be given a unique email address to which to post to uniquely identify them and the blog they want to post to when sending an email.
Setup
Before you begin be sure you have the following prerequisites and software installed:
- Mail::IMAPClient (for IMAP)
- Mail::POP3Client (for POP)
- Email::Address
- Email::MIME
- IO::Socket::SSL
Then install the plugin per its README.txt file. Finally configure the plugin via Post Office's plugin settings screen. When the plugin is configured, and if the current user has setup an API Password, then a link will be surfaced at the bottom of the Write Entry screen. The link contains the email address to which you should send your messages.
rm_blogger
June 20, 2008 4:36 PM | Reply
I have it installed and once I got the proper perl modules installed it quit throwing errors but it's not doing anything and the email link that shows under the create entry screen is incorrect.
Any way to troubleshoot this?
Arindam Ganguly
July 22, 2008 1:09 PM | Reply
is the email the one you setup for this purpose? is it pop3 compliant? gmail provides this.
if it is..the email in the entry page should be the same with a +number in it. the number is the id of your blog. so the plugin knows where to post to
Cindi Knox
August 30, 2008 6:13 PM | Reply
If I set up a mailbox called mailboxname, and the email in the entry page is mailboxname+1, the mailserver is going to reject mail to mailboxname+1@example.com.
Cindi Knox
August 30, 2008 8:26 PM | Reply
Add requirement:
Your e-mail server MUST ignore the +n added to the local-part.
To verify, set up an email address (test@example.com). Send an e-mail (test+1@example.com). If the e-mail is successfully received (at test@example.com), your e-mail server is capable of working with this plugin.
Gautam Patel
September 3, 2008 7:50 PM | Reply
A few things to note:
thegreenpages
September 20, 2008 7:18 PM | Reply
Thanks for the tip Gautam Patel!
Minh Nguyễn
March 10, 2009 10:54 PM | Reply
There’s plenty of unofficial documentation at the Movable Type Wiki.
Rob G
April 1, 2009 10:13 PM | Reply
I've installed PostOffice and the additional software but can't get the Settings option on the Plugin configuration page, only Info.
Help please!