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wp-mail.php

Started using Wordpress a few days ago and love the clean look/design/code. But it got me thinking about photos, I love photos but hate having to upload stuff and linking to it (CMS style). In fact I’m so lazy, I decided to have a hack at wp-mail.php
What I ended up doing was replacing most of the code in wp-mail.php for wordpress 1.2, didn’t anticipate that when I first started but the results are nice.

This hack is a ‘drop in’ replacement for the current wp-mail.php. It uses pear as a mime compliant email ‘decoder’. What’s cool is that you can attach images inline in your email messages and they’ll be shown as an image in your wordpress article. It does this by decoding the image attachments and writing them to ‘wp-photos’ directory (not in default wp install).

It has all the abilities of the current wp-mail.php plus:

Allows image attachments (posts inline)
Checks if user email address is in the database (otherwise discards message)
Allows other file attachments (zip’s, exe’s, etc)
Fairly good cleaner for removing excessive line breaks

I’m planning on more updates, but would love to see this update included in future wordpress releases. Would be happy to maintain it to, I’m fairly sure it complies with most of the coding guidelines I’ve read on the wordpress website.

To install you grab the zip file: wp-mail.zip

Drop the two files (wp-mail.php & mimedecode.php) into a wordpress 1.2 root directory
Create the directories ‘wp-photos’ and ‘wp-filez’ in the wordpress root directory(with writing permissions (probably 0777).

Let me know what you guys think!

Written by JB Hewitt

June 16th, 2004 at 1:41 pm

Posted in Code,General

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Hi there,

I create an new post at http://wordpress.org/support/topic/368539?replies=1#post-1410138
Maybe you have a sollution to my problem?

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";
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Hi John,
This is a great plugin, but looking at the code, I must warn you there's is a huge security issue with it.
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Hi John, how could I make your wp-mail.php support email coding in UTF-8?
I found it support the title, not the content of the UTF-8 coded email. Could you give me some suggestion?

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Thanks Alan, I tried your change to wp-mail.php but this doesn´t work for me. I think my problem is connected to the multipart handling.

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I was having the same problem.

I changed: fwrite($fp, $part->body);
to: fwrite($fp, base64_decode($part->body));

and it works for me now.

(Using a Treo 600, btw.)

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@Scooterphish

Maybe I wasn´t precise enough. I don´t think that there is something wrong with mimedecode. Apparently it works for many people. But definitely there is a problem with the interaction of the WP-Mail-Hack and i.e. the SE T610 cell phone.
I cannot change the way my cell phone is sending emails but there could be a chance to get it working by modifying the WP-Hack. That is why I was thinking about mimedecode.

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Well, Lars, I don't think it's a problem with mimedecode, because I'm using the script to send pictures from my cell phone. Gotta be something a) with the way the phone sends messages or b) your provider c) unknown factor ?

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Has anybody figured out how to post photos by using a cell phone? I have the same problem as Hans-Göran Puke. When I send an email with an attached photo from my SE T610 only the text part shows up in the blog. There seems to be a problem with mimedecode.

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Posts are not getting deleted by this script! Is there something I need to change somewhere? Please help! It's really annoying!

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Has anyone thought of modifying this to work with a .qmail file instead of using cron? I know that on my host, I can set up a ".qmail-example" file, which could redirect any mail for example@myhost.com to a script. Unfortunately, I'm not sure exactly what would be needed to make this work... My php skills are sorely lacking.

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Micke, RE: the PEAR.php file - just put it in the same directory as the wp-mail.php file.

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What about this PEAR-file: How do I use it?
And does it work with "non-US characters" ?

Great hack.

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Well, it works great on my (test)-site, but I wonder, can I choose code to make text 'bold', 'italic'. The standard doesn't work, so is there something else to make this...?

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I have the same problem as Hans-Göran, but with danish characters. My solution is perhaps not the best, but it works for me:
In wp-mail.php after the line:
"$subject = trim($structure->headers['subject']);"
place this line:
$subject = htmlentities($subject);

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Actually, I have discovered one more problem: When sending an e-mail fron my Sony-Ericsson T630 phone and attaching a photo, only the text part makes it to the blog. Mailing to my office e-mail account, I get both the text and photo, so something seems to be wrong here. How can I help you to debug this?

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This is a great hack! Just what I was looking for.
Just one small problem to report: When posting something with Swedish characters (or any other non-US characters I suppost) in the SUBJECT, they don't get translated correctly. MIME converts these to Quoted-Printable, but wp-email.php does not seem to convert them back.
Maybe someone can fix this easily (my blog is in Swedish)?

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I was getting a locked inbox whenever no mail was found (e.g everytime the cron triggered wp-mail.php) I think it was because the POP3 server didn't like the script just closing.

I amended thus:

$count = $pop3->login(get_settings('mailserver_login'), get_settings('mailserver_pass')); if (0 == $count) { $pop3->quit(); die(__('There does not seem to be any new mail.')); }

which seemed to fix it.

might help someone, wondering why it works once and once only.

;)

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I'll e-mail it to you :-)

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Great work on this, it's really useful.

I have found a bug however. My mobile uses a from address of "<mobile>" which your script can't successfully extract and so does a lookup in the DB for the address including the </mobile><mobile> which obviously doesn't work.

I fixed it by adding the following line at line 72:

$from = ereg_replace("((\< )|(\>))", "", $from);

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FWIW, I got it going with my phone (nokia 6820), but not with kmail. You'd think it'd be the other way around. Anyway, I only care about it working with the fone.... I'd be happy to test any other code you crank out. Thanks 10kx. http://jebba.blagblagblag.org FWIW

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Hey, I got it installed. As someone above pointed out, in the README you reference an incorrect filename (mailmime instead if mime) and you should probably mention dropping in PEAR.php in the top dir.

I've been able to post, but the images aren't showing up. I created the wp-photos and wp-filez dirs and chmod 777 them, but nothing appears in them. I get the "Mission complete, message 1 deleted" and see that the image is in the wp-mail.php page. At the bottom the "Posted content:" is blank. Ideas?

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When I post from Outlook the body of the mail is displayed, but when I send e-mail from my mobile phone there is only the header showing... and the attached picture is ignored in both case.
Maybe I am missing something?

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http://www.tillsvidare.com/blogg

Dan 6 years ago 1 point
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I've installed your hack today. It's able to get the subject line of the email (for the post title); however, it doesn't get the body of the email (the content) and the attachments. Any ideas why this would be so? Thanks.

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Joseph Boykin 6 years ago 1 point
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I like Michael's changes to the script, however, I believe I found a bug where, if an unknown text category was specified, we try to use that category as opposed to, say, using the default category.

I believe the code:
$post_category = ( !is_null($id) ) ? $id : $post_categories[0];
should be:
$post_category = ( !is_null($id) ) ? $id : get_settings('default_category');

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Andy 6 years ago 1 point
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Thanks for this, it works like a charm. I really use this so i can send emails from my phone to my blog. I am using this to send message from an o2 UK mobile phone. All that i needed to change was adding a str_replace line to remove the advert at the top of the message. Thanks once again.

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joe 6 years ago 1 point
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I'm getting the same problem as Jeff and Tim and Pam--something with timezone? Maybe?

Happens with the regular Wordpress wp-mail, too, and there's a bug report in --so maybe it will be fixed.

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Michael 6 years ago 1 point
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Now category by name and post_name for permalinks work. Two sections mainly edited.

http://peimic.com/wp/wp-mail.php.txt

Cheers,

Michael

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http://peimic.com/

Michael 6 years ago 1 point
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Opps, ignore the later sql part of my comment. That's way, way wrong. Sorry.

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Michael 6 years ago 1 point
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To get categories from your subjects, write them like so.

[category_id]Subject Test

[2]Weirdos From Space

If brave, try to achieve "[Travel]Visiting Canada" via the following.
$sql = " SELECT * FROM $tablepost2cat WHERE post_id = $post_ID AND ( category_id = $post_category OR cat_name = '$post_category' ) "; $exists = $wpdb->get_row($sql);

Thanks for the efforts John,

Michael

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R@lf 6 years ago 1 point
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I'm getting the same errors as Tim, Pam and Jeff. Never worked in this case. I keep getting a category error.. when I change it manually afterwards there is no problem.

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Jeff 6 years ago 1 point
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Well, I'm also getting the same problem as Tim and Pam... and it seems to be all of the sudden as well! Anyone else?

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mid0ri 6 years ago 1 point
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I want to make wp-mail.php to work on Japanese e-mail. Would you mind showing me which part of the code I should put:
$subject = eregi("(.*)=\?iso-2022-jp\?B\?([^\?]+)\?=(.*)",$subject,$regs);
$subject = $regs[1].base64_decode($regs[2]).$regs[3];
$subject = htmlspecialchars(mb_convert_encoding($subject, "EUC-JP", "auto"));

and also

$content = mb_convert_encoding($content, "EUC-JP", "auto");

so that I can have e-mail in Japanese EUC_JP shown correctly?

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Pam 6 years ago 1 point
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Currently I'm getting the same error as #29 here.. however last week when testing, the wp-mail worked perfectly.. any ideas on the problem? I have n't changed anything, I was out of town is all.

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http://www.southernblog.com

Tim 6 years ago 1 point
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I love the hack, but I have run into two problems. First, the I use in the body of the email to mark where the post should be broken is being converted by the htmlentities function. Is there any way to avoid this?

Second, I am getting a peculiar error with the categories. My email was processed, but when I went to the front page of my blog, I got the following error where the category should be:

'Category:
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/geodog/public_html/strangelove/
wp-includes/template-functions-category.php on line 65'

When I went to the editing page to correct it, I found the following error under the categories column:

'Warning: in_array(): Wrong datatype for second argument in /home/geodog/public_html/strangelove/
wp-admin/admin-functions.php on line 41'

This is probably not a problem specific to your hack, as I am having it with the regular wp-mail.php as well, but I was hoping that you might be able to shed some light on it.

As my contribution back, here is some code which should answer the request above about deleting footers:
Insert this at the appropriate place:
# variable for string after which we don't want file. Obviously # must be unique. I am using dashes as an example. $stop_here = "---------" # find it using strpos $pos = strpos($content, $stop_here); # subtract unwanted content $content = substr($content, 0, $pos);

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.
Tim

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Neil 6 years ago 1 point
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For those of us who haven't mastered the intricacies of Regex's yet, can you tell me how to specify which categories the email posts to?

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rust 6 years ago 1 point
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For the time problem, I think I found the fixy. If you do the math, it seems "wp-mail.php" was subtracting the time difference twice. Change the line that says $post_date = date('Y-m-d H:i:s', time($ddate) + ($time_difference * 3600)); to say $post_date = gmdate('Y-m-d H:i:s', time($ddate) + ($time_difference * 3600)); and it should be fine. :)

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Nik 6 years ago 1 point
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I get the same error as Christine. For the error, check http://niklas.saers.com/blog/john.html . Also, note a typo in your README-file, your file isn't called mailmimedecode.php but mimedecode.php. Small thingy. Anyways, it'd be good if you'd allow for multiple email accounts per user.

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Jeff 6 years ago 1 point
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Personally, I don't get any footers attached from T-Mobile. But I do have a problem with the MIME encoding on the Nokia 3650.

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Scooterphish 6 years ago 1 point
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Dude! Rock!
I second the option to remove text footers from emails sent (a la T-mobile) or delete all text after (and including) a certain string value ("--" or "##" etc).
I'd send you a paypal donation, dude. Seriously.

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http://scooterphish.us

Eric 6 years ago 1 point
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This works beautifully!

My phone attaches a long footer to the end of the pic-message. Gotta love Verizon. Is there a way to have wp-mail stop parsing the message when it hits an indicator within the message? That way I could include something like ### to the body of my message and it would not process the attached footer.

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Jeff 6 years ago 1 point
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Thank you so much, I've been looking for a script like this for a long time! It doesn't seem to work with photo attachments from my Nokia 3650, but there are blank anchor tags in the post HTML. ??

Anyone know of a way to resize those images on the fly? I want them to fit in with the rest of the images on my site (350px wide)

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Christine 6 years ago 1 point
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This is a fabulous idea! If only I could get it to work. I get this error when I run the script in a browser window.
***************
Database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax. Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'WHERE user_email='christine@colormepink.com'' at line 1]
SELECT id FROM WHERE user_email='christine@colormepink.com'

invalid sender: christine@colormepink.com
***************
If someone could shed some light on what the heck I'm doing wrong I would be unendingly grateful. Thank you.

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http://colormepink.com

Matt 6 years ago 1 point
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Have created both a user with the account sent from and a user for the account sent to. Item is posted, but not deleted from POP server. So it's reposted every time i check wp-mail. I wonder if my ISP's POP server is somehow not compliant?

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http://www.idealrhombus.com

Lane 6 years ago 1 point
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Matt, try creating a user with posting ability that has the email address that you are sending the posts to.

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Matt 6 years ago 1 point
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Actually, I've discovered that the posts are indeed occuring using your enhanced wp-mail.php but two issues:

1) When using WGET from the command-line to call the page, the posts are grabbed but the mail is not deleted from the account. So the next time wp-mail is called, the same posts are added again.

2) The time seems to be off by a few hours so the posts are added in the past.

Any ideas?

Regards -

Matt

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http://www.idealrhombus.com

Matt 6 years ago 1 point
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One further note. I notice that now, for some reason, even when I visit the URL with a traditional browser, this enhanced wp-mail is no longer deleting the message from the POP account even though it shows it processing it (and it never ends up on the blog).

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http://www.idealrhombus.com

Matt 6 years ago 1 point
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I don't seem to be able to automate the checking of wp-mail via the cron. When I use it with wget, i get the following:

Server:/etc matt$ wget http://192.168.0.25/wordpress/wp-mail.php
--13:15:03-- http://192.168.0.25/wordpress/wp-mail.php
=> `wp-mail.php'
Connecting to 192.168.0.25:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [text/html]
wp-mail.php: Permission denied

Cannot write to `wp-mail.php' (Permission denied).

Any idea what I need to change to automate this process?

Regards -

Matt

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http://www.idealrhombus.com

Lane 6 years ago 1 point
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If you use mod_rewrite, photo and file paths break. Looking at:
//global $photosdir; $photosdir = 'wp-photos/'; $filesdir = 'wp-filez/';
Should I change this to be an absolute path?

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Quotes 1 year ago 1 point
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Thanks for the code, I appreciate it.

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15 /people/Quotes/ /people/Quotes/following/

Erich Kolb 6 years ago 1 point
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This hack rocks!

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http://www.erichkolb.com/index.php?p=82

Matt 6 years ago 1 point
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I'm attempting to set up a cron for wp-mail.php but it doesn't appear I have 'GET' on my machine. I'm running Mac OS X. Might anyone have a suggestion for what I need to install to provide the 'GET' ability?

TIA -

Matt

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http://rhombus.mine.nu

JohnBlade 6 years ago 1 point
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Eden,
I have updated the wp-mail.zip to include PEAR.php. Try and re-download the zip file again and have a go!

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eden 6 years ago 1 point
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I´ve been trying to get this thing to work but I´m afraid I´m stuck at the "pear" stage.. where and how can I "get pear"? *confused*

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Michiel 6 years ago 1 point
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Great hack!! Would it be possible to create a thumbnail from the picture so that the thumbnail is post to the blog and when you click on it the original picture will be shown in a pop-up? Again, a great hack!

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Owen 6 years ago 1 point
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Interesting implementation!

A few caveats and suggestions: I agree that it would be very nice to allow some addresses that are not in the user database to post so that I could allow my phone to email the script. Thumbnails would be nice, too. You should mention that PEAR is required - it wasn't a problem, but added a step I wasn't expecting.

It didn't seem to fix all of the linebreaks in my message. This is an issue with these mail-based posting scripts when used with the WP formatting functions.

It would be very cool if you could use the name of the category rather than the number to choose a category in which to post.

In all, it's a very effective method of getting files posted via email. Good job!

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http://www.asymptomatic.net

chad 6 years ago 1 point
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dan, it ate my code too.
i meant to write the less than and greater than sign... angle brackets. < and >
< and >< />

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Dan 6 years ago 1 point
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And it did it again...I'll give john the update...

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Dan 6 years ago 1 point
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Dammit, it ate my code, try this:
if (preg_match('/^[^]+([< "])([^]+)\2$/',$from,$matches)) { $from = $matches[2]; } < />< />

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Dan 6 years ago 1 point
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]+)\2$/',$from,$matches))
{
$from = $matches[2];
}

which should solve your problem.

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chad 6 years ago 1 point
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some more testing.
my phone sends email with "< " and ">" around the email, so the sender is rejected.
it looks like "<email>".

also, although apple's mail sent the email fine with multiple inline images, when sending with mozilla mail, it inserts all the html into the blog. this should be removed?</email>

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chad 6 years ago 1 point
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wow. i was trying to get the other hack for this running, but i wasnt getting it right.
worked.

one snag, i didnt have pear installed, and I am on a shared host, so I went to pear, and got pear.php and just dropped it in the wordpress directory.

i was impressed how multiple images came out inline, sent using Mac OSX 10.3 Mail.

The other snag, was that I might be sending from various emails (like from phone, etc), so at first my email got rejected. I had to setup the different users in WP. Can it be optional to set the account it is supposed to post under?

And one more thing... I would like to use this for moblogging. Is it possible for thumbnails be created of the images, with a link to the original image (like this hack http://tellitinlove.com/archives/2004/05/31/wp_photohack/)

Keep up the great work!

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Gnam 6 years ago 1 point
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I still get the "Ooops POP3: premature NOOP OK, NOT an RFC 1939 Compliant server" error when trying to post my email via the http://www.example.com/wordpress/wp-mail.php link...

:(

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http://www.chiafullo.it/blog

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