email to blog function

[jensen]

hi all,

is there/will there be an option to send an email to the blog so that the post will be in the blog (like blogger.com offers)? would improve mobility, just send an email with your cellphone to the blog?!


cheers,
jens

[garvinhicking]

We have the popfetcher plugin and the mail2s9y.sh shellscript for moblogging.

You can create a cronjob on your server (or use a free cronjob service for wget a URL) to make the popfetcher automatically poll your fresh mails.

Regards,
Garvin

[jensen]

could you give me an example of how the cronjob would look like?

cheers,
jens

[jensen]

got it, thanks.

but does the cronjob effect a counter? e.g. if i call that cronjob every 10 min. will there be a count? (i quess i have to exclude the server IP from counting, right?)

cheers,
jens

[garvinhicking]

Counter? What do you mean with that?

Regards,
Garvin

[jensen]

does the cronjob need any special rights/setting on the server? i tried with user nobody, but does not work?

cheers,
jensen

[zoran]

what part does not work? did you try the cron command you are giving on the command line? did you set the plugin type to 'external' in the config?

i use:

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wget -q -O /dev/null http://hostname.tld/index.php?/plugin/<<insert External Launch Name defined in plugin here>>

good luck!

zz.

[jensen]

do i need to set a special usertype for the cronjob? e.g. nobody oder www-user (i use nobody, but doesn't work?!)


cheers,
jens

[zoran]

I use my own useraccount. Try su-ing to the desiderd account and execute the command. If all else fails, try it as root.

What is the error? If you remove the -q you'll get a verbose output from wget.