Tuesday, November 26, 2013

mail2Post: Using email to update your blog

Blogger's mail2Post tool lets authors make blog-posts, without using the Blogger software.   All you need to do is set it up, and write posts using your regular email tools.

Mail2Post and Blogger. 


The mail2Post trait, every so often branded as Post-to-profile, is a way of putting content on your blog exclusive of using the chock-full Blogger software representing script the pole.

It's not quite as respectable as using Blogger itself - at hand are a a small number of skin tone missing - but it is respectable an adequate amount in many situations.

How to usual up mail2Post

Log in to Blogger with the Google report to facilitate you would like to own mail2Post constitutional rights to your blog:  This report needs to already be usual up as an author representing the the blog.

Go to

    The Settings tab - if you are logged on with an author report, or
    The Settings > mobile phone & Email tab if you are using an administrator report
    (The tab is called Settings > Email & mobile phone in the old Blogger interface.)

Beside Posting using email (or Email Posting Address in the old Blogger interface), at hand is a place wherever you can enter a quantity of "secretWords", to nominate up an email attend to to facilitate you can consume to pole to your blog.

Enter a quantity of fit terminology:  Nominate convinced it's not too unproblematic to conjecture (your surname would not be a respectable wealth!), so to facilitate spammers cannot comprehend into it:

Choose either to print emailed updates as soon as they arrive, or to save email as drafts so to facilitate you,  or a further administrator, can reconsideration them or redistribution.

Note down the chock-full email attend to, ie   NAME.Your-secret-words@blogger.Com   (you will need this soon after - and unfortunately since of the way it's displayed, it is not unproblematic to copy-and-paste the value).

Press Save (old interface) or Save Settings (new interface).

Using the mail2Post attend to:

Once mail2Post is usual up, everybody who sends an email message to the email attend to you plagiarized can pole to your blog, with come again? Still restrictions you usual.

You might plunk message on your blog aphorism

     "send aid to YOURNAME.YOURSECRETWORDS@blogger.Com"

But be aware to facilitate this can generate a lot in life of spam.   And in the worse argument, the spam can comprehend your blog deleted representing breach Blogger's stipulations and conditions.

Alternatively, you might truly tell the attend to to selected fill with - or perhaps even truly consume it physically.

How is a Post constructed from an email message:

When a message is sent to your mail2Post attend to:

  •     The subject-line of your email message becomes the Post-title
  •     The body of the email message becomes the body of the pole
  •     I think:  If you without human intervention print emailed posts, followed by the pole date-and-time is the split second next to which Blogger's servers acknowledged the incoming email message - articulated in Blogger's default stage zone (PST otherwise PDT, I think).
  •     No labels are useful to the pole
  •     The post-author is the profile appoint of the blog-author who usual up the mail2Post attend to.

Pictures and Videos

People own reported various results what time they include images and videos inside messages sent via mail2Post.   Personally, I own tested:

  •     An attached picture - posted ok, the image is fair or all the text from the body of the email message
  •     An attached capture organizer (4meg) - posted ok with the capture appearing to be exceeding the text from the email message
  •     An in-line photo - worked flawlessly, the picture is placed in the pole in the same view (relative to the text) to facilitate it was in the real thing email.

I suspect to facilitate the results  depend on they type of picture, the email client you are using, and the message format settings.   My taxing was with Mozilla Thunderbird, which has a detail way of thinking around "attachments", a little discrete from other email systems to facilitate I own used (eg Microsoft Outlook).

Probably the single way to discover how photos are handled what time you consume your email to propel them is to usual up a test-blog and conduct test with discrete options.

What your readers distinguish:

People who read your blog in a web-browser distinguish mail2Post entries truly like several other posts.   If your blog displays the poster's appoint, followed by mail2Post entries own the appoint of the blog-author who usual up the mail2Post attend to.

To the same extent mentioned or, the positioning of pictures and videos may well not until the end of time be as respectable:  Attached pictures, in detail, may well be revealed as the very interrupt of the pole.

Apart from to facilitate, at hand is nothing to fair visitors to facilitate the pole was twisted using email - in either the pole or in the blog's RSS feed.

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