brycefinney Posted August 11, 2006 Share Posted August 11, 2006 What would the mail server for a given site be (I have a reseller plan and the site I need the mail server address for is mybuddyandme.com). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Tim Posted August 11, 2006 Share Posted August 11, 2006 mail.mybuddyandme.com should do it for you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brycefinney Posted August 11, 2006 Author Share Posted August 11, 2006 mail.mybuddyandme.com should do it for you Could it be anything else? I'm trying to set up the mail-to-blog feature of WordPress and while the address I'm emailing to is receiving the email, the blog is not picking it up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Bruce Posted August 11, 2006 Share Posted August 11, 2006 Did you activate the feature from within Wordpress? I've tried it before and it does work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brycefinney Posted August 11, 2006 Author Share Posted August 11, 2006 Did you activate the feature from within Wordpress? I've tried it before and it does work. Hmm, I'm not sure how I would "activate" it. All I see on the page is textboxes for entering mail server (mail.mybuddyandme.com) port number (110 - this was already set) login name (myaddress@mybuddyandme.com) and password. I don't see any options for activating/deactivating. Is it somewere in the PHP script itself or have I gotten one of these settings wrong? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Bruce Posted August 11, 2006 Share Posted August 11, 2006 Are you running the wp-mail.php file? Once you get it working manually you set up a cron job to run the wp-mail.php file. Just adding the email address/password to the admin area of your blog will not poll the email account for messages to post. You have to load the wp-mail.php file which processes the email account and posts the entries. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brycefinney Posted August 11, 2006 Author Share Posted August 11, 2006 (edited) Are you running the wp-mail.php file? Once you get it working manually you set up a cron job to run the wp-mail.php file. Just adding the email address/password to the admin area of your blog will not poll the email account for messages to post. You have to load the wp-mail.php file which processes the email account and posts the entries. You're a genius as always. Can you take a look at my test post (the latest post) at www.mybuddyandme.com/home/ though and see if you can figure out what's happening w/ the weird formatting? Edited August 11, 2006 by brycefinney Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Bruce Posted August 11, 2006 Share Posted August 11, 2006 Quick guess, you sent the email in html format. Try plain text and that should solve it. And glad I could help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brycefinney Posted August 11, 2006 Author Share Posted August 11, 2006 (edited) Quick guess, you sent the email in html format. Try plain text and that should solve it. And glad I could help. Right Again To schedule the cron job do i just enter the url to the php file that needs to run? Edited August 11, 2006 by brycefinney Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brycefinney Posted August 11, 2006 Author Share Posted August 11, 2006 Right Again To schedule the cron job do i just enter the url to the php file that needs to run? ::bump:: (just in case no one saw my edit) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Bruce Posted August 11, 2006 Share Posted August 11, 2006 Use this format when adding the cron job >/usr/bin/php -q /home/yourTCHname/public_html/path-to-wp.mail.php Set it to run every hour of every day. That should be enough. And please take a look at the forum guidelines. We do not allow bumping of threads and we read all posts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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