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Good work! Now I am able to use my SE T610 for moblogging. Thank you, John.

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John Blade hat eine neue Version seines wp-mail-Hacks veröffentlicht. Der Hack erweitert die Fähigkeiten von WordPress, die das Veröffentlichen von Artikeln per Email ermöglichen. Mit einem geeigneten Mobiltelefon ist es damit auch möglich, Bilder und …

Thank you for this terrific mod. It worked first time and now with v.0.2 still works. One little problem I have is when I use yahoo for posting, it sends plain text and html (don’t know how to override this behaviour) and what I get on my blog is a nice post with the same info appended only in html.

I guess it’s the same as your recommendation for Mozilla Thunderbird and Outlook to just use HTML, so I think I’ll be hand-editing for some time.

And one last question: how do I post to other categories?

A also very much appreciate your hack, however from Mozilla mail, when sending as HTML only I see raw HTML in the blog (see http://thelevins.net/wp/ ). Also, the posting doesn’t trigger an outgoing email notification (using a modified verison of this script: http://www.briangroce.com/software/wp-email-notification.html ). Please let me know if you have any thoughts or would like me to do any testing. Thanks again.

Thanks for the work, I need to check out this new version. I modified your older one for my site to work with my phone. The problem I had with the mime and base64 decode was my phone sends the information in all caps, so I tweaked the mimedecode and wp-mail.php to be strtolower the content types and encodeing, that fixed my phone sending mail.

Thanks for all the work.

One additional question: The code that strips signatures (after –) also seems to strip off my photo attachment. Any suggestions?

It’s not working, I get all the html coding and no image, i added the files and crated the directories. If i send outlook mail as plain text its fine- but no image! help!

I am installing this for a friend of mine and found that it works great by sending plain text with an attachment in MS Outlook. What I also found was that it ignores the “Allow Comments” and “Allow Pings” default settings. So, even though I don’t want to allow comments on this blog, if I use this plugin, I have to go back in and reset it for each post anyway.

I’ll try to hack it to make it work and then give you what I used, if I get that far. But, if you do it first, please be so kind as to let me/us know.

Thanks.

To fix the above situation, I added these two lines after line 35:

//default comment/ping status
$comment_status = get_settings('default_comment_status');
$ping_status = get_settings('default_ping_status');


I also added two lines to the array used for the sql string. It now looks like this:

$details = array(
'post_author' => $poster,
'post_date' => $post_date,
'post_date_gmt' => $post_date_gmt,
'post_content' => $content,
'post_title' => $subject,
'post_modified' => $post_date,
'post_modified_gmt' => $post_date_gmt,
'comment_status' => $comment_status,
'ping_status' => $ping_status,
'post_name' => $post_name
);


However, I am having problems now with it in combination with the plugin called update_notify(). It seems that your code is missing something in it’s posting action that triggers the update_notify plugin whereas if I post through the admin UI, the update_notify plugin does work. It may not be your problem, but I just throught I’d mention it.

Again, if I find a solution, I’ll let ya know.

As for my last post, after removing the update_notify() plugin and using the default Post by Email that comes with WP, I’ve found that it doesn’t work either. So, it must not be your plugin’s problem. Just thought I’d let ya know.

Everything seems to be working great except posting a picture via email. I can post via my cell phone fine but when I try to post with a picture, I get an error message from the plug-in that says “invalid sender.” What gives?

John, you need to have a user in your wordpress user list that has an email address of your mobile phone’s. My hack checks to see if the user is valid before it allows it in.

So just add a user with a valid email address.

Sweet! Now I can post from my camera phone! Great job, great code.

my old wp-mail.php did work, yours doesn’t up to now. it seems to check for mail correctly but returns the “There does not seem to be any new mail.” message. my install has got a user with the mail address I am sending from, so that should work. any more hints on where to look for a problem? TIA!

I re-installed. And it works. Sorry for the mess-up, thanks for a great script!

Great hack. I’m writing a Sprint Picture Share plugin, and it was much easier to use your script instead of the basic wp-mail. I did find some things I needed to change though to make it work the way I needed/wanted. I think they are things that everyone could benifit from, and they integrate nicely into your existing code. I’m cleaning up/commenting now – when I finish it up I will post the code here. I’d rather not maintain a fork of the code, so I’m hoping you will like my modifications and incorporate them into future releases

I’m very new with WordPress and with weblogging/hosting in general, so pardon my stupid questions… I am able to post via mail after installing this nice plug-in but I still see HTML formatting although I’ve selected HTML mail in Outlook – is this expected?. Do you mean to not use Outlook at all to send mail? Also, when sending a URL via email (even text format in Outlook), I do not get the actual reference to the link, just text. Is this expected? Finally, when sending mail from my phone (I do have the phone’s email address added as a user), I still get the “this user is not allowed to post” when exec wp-mail.php. Any suggestions for troubleshooting this problem?

Thanks.

Okay, I have completed my code and released a new version of my SprintPhoto script. The new copy of wp-mail.php can be found here, and a commented page listing the differences can be found here. As I said, I think that these changes/additions would benifit the script and I would love it if you could incorporate them into future releases. If not, I will do what I can to maintain my fork of the code, though I doubt I will do much to modify the pure email side of things. Dan, you may want to check out my copy – it has a bug fix to the address checking and also has the ability to dissable the email address checking completely if needed. The changes I have made were mostly created to better utilize my SprintPhoto v0.2 plugin.

Please feel free to get in touch with me about the changes I have made. Thanks again for the great work!

I have the same problem as Dan. I send with Outlook, the picture and text get posted on my weblog, but so does the mail in HTML format.
Is there any solution for that ?

I’ve added image resizing and pop-ups to the script. This will scale the largest dimension of the image to a pre-set size, and maintain the aspect ratio. It’ll then save a .JPG of the scaled image, and make the image a link to a full-sized version which comes up in a pop-up window:

$filename = $photosdir . rand() . '.' . $part->ctype_secondary;
$fp = fopen($filename, 'w');
fwrite($fp, $part->body);
fclose($fp);

$meta_return .= '' . "\n";
}
else
{
$meta_return .= '"' . "\n";
}
break;


You also need to add this javascript code to index.php:

popUp(sURL,sName,iWidth,iHeight) {
window.open(sURL,sName,'width='+iWidth+',height='+iHeight+',scrollbars=no,noresize');
}


this must be an error:
if ((1 $size[1]) {

how do I insert the script in index.php?

hmmm… the whole resizing-code seems to be full of bugs, at least if I copy & paste it in the wp-mail.php (replacing the right parts, of course)

so finally I have it working
thanks to hugo! most of the problems occured because of the formating done by wordpress in the comments, so I have posted my working version here .
at next I want to find out how to get the german letters like ä working…

wow! this mod kicks ass! Works perfectly from Outlook. I’m having a problem using G Mail to post pictures, but I’m not sure if it’s a local problem on my end. I get this error:

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /public_html/blog/wp-includes/template-functions-category.php on line 70

Only happens when attaching pictures. Emailing a regular post works just fine. I can live with this, but was just curious.

Again – thanks for all your hard work!

I’ve noticed more then one person having problems with their picture posts displaying raw HTML code. Has anybody found a fix for this yet? Im using mozilla thunderbird, and im sending the picture post as HTML. You can see the problem here; http://www.cynikalsam.com/blog

Im new to wordpress, so could this be a problem with my wordpress settings?

//Hack for wp-mail.php plugin
//Author: J. Otis Riggins; otis@gnbi.com
//Use as you like!
//What does it do? It creates a smaller .jpg image scaled to your specs while maintaining the aspect ratio of
//the original image. The function was created to support image uploading using wp-mail for users who upload
//large images but could be used for other image scaling task as well.
//
//By replacing a line in the wp-mail.php file and adding the function to the end of wp-mail.php it will cause
//the thumbnail image to be displayed in the blog message and linked so that when a user clicks on it the larger
//original image will be displayed in a seperate window. The method I chose was to append “tn_” to the begining
//of the image name and saving both files into the wp-photos directory.
//
//To use replace the following line in wp-mail.php with the five lines after it and include the function in wp-mail.php

$meta_return .= ‘

I would love to use your great hack. But I have one small problem. When I post something with Danish characters in the CONTENT, the characters don’t get translated correctly. The Danish characters show as =E6, =F8, and =E5 in my blog. Can anyone help me solve this problem?

Another concern I had was:
Since I know going to http:////wp-email.php will process any waiting emails, Since the script outputs the post to the web browser as it makes the post, I could attempt to run it on sites not my own and read their incoming posts regardless of the security level (if using viewlevel plugins, etc).

I just loved your hack!

However, I have two issues:

1 – it won’t delete the e-mail from the server, resulting on posting the same thing over and over;

2 – it is conflicting with my Show Categories plugin:

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/mgateco/public_html/maneblog/wp-includes/template-functions-category.php on line 9 (displayed at the Posts tab of the WordPress admin page, and

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/mgateco/public_html/maneblog/wp-content/plugins/showcategories.php on line 254, displayed at the front page of my blog.

What can I do to fix this?

Yours,

oculos

Hi John!

Thanks a lot for this nice hack! I like it! But one question, is there a solution how to handle the raw html code output? I saw here in the comments more questions and ih have the problem too. Has anyone got that working with HTML-Emails?

Thank you John for these hack!

Sebastian

Very cool hack. Keep up the good work. I had some problems with posts showing up with the wrong time. Two hours added. Easily fixed by removing some of the stuff after character 54 line 93 in wp-mail.php. (” + ($time_difference * 3600)”) Also while posting from my t630 local characters like æ ø and å doesn’t show up correctly in the body (it’s shows up correctly in the title btw), but it seems to work very well when posting from Mail.app on my comp. I’ll mainly use it for posting pictures from my mobile on the go, so it’s not a big concern, but I would prefer not to use html codes for æøå when I accidently feel like adding comments to a picture or whatever.
Very useful utility.

Mostly I wanted the geourl by email feature that is supposed to already work, but doesn’t.
So, I added the functionality to the wp-mail.php file.

Modifications to John B. Hewitt’s hacked wp-mail.php version 2.0 – http://blade.lansmash.com/index.php?cat=5
Adds coordinate parsing, which according to the wiki was working at some point.
I borrowed the coordinate parsing from http://drbacchus.com/wordpress/index.php?p=631
This hack extracts the first set of coordinates from the body of the email and inserts them into the database

Coordinates must be in the format: 33d39.452,-117d42.315
That’s “Degrees” then “d” then “Minutes” then “.” then “Minutes”
Note that the last is in minutes, not seconds.

Coordinates can be anyplace in the message body.

Comments and improvements welcome.

Brad Wilson – bwilson@b-photo.com

After this:—————————————————————–
//date reformating
$post_date = date(‘Y-m-d H:i:s’, time($ddate) + ($time_difference * 3600));
$post_date_gmt = gmdate(‘Y-m-d H:i:s’, time($ddate) );
Add this:—————————————————————–
//get Latitude
$latitude = getLat($content);
//get Longitude
$longitude = getLon($content);

After this:—————————————————————–
print ‘Subject: ‘ . $subject . ‘
‘ . “\n”;
Add this:—————————————————————–
print ‘Coordinates: ‘ . $latitude . ‘x’ . $longitude . ‘
‘ . “\n”;

After this:—————————————————————–
‘post_title’ => $subject,
Add this:—————————————————————–
‘post_lat’ => $latitude,
‘post_lon’ => $longitude,

After this:—————————————————————–

function charsetcheck ( $part )
{
if ( strtolower($part->ctype_parameters['charset'] == ‘utf-8′) )
{
$part->body = utf8_decode($part->body);
}
return $part;
}

Add this:—————————————————————–

/**
* Grab Latitude from message body
* Coordinates must be in the form: 34d13.345,-123d45.234
* That’s degrees, then ‘d’ and then minutes.minutes
*/
function getLat ( $data )
{

$coords = ‘((-?)(\d+)d(\d+\.\d+)),((-?)(\d+)d(\d+\.\d+))’;

preg_match(“/$coords/mx”,$data,$matches);
//$lat=$matches[1];

/* Convert to Decimal */
$latd = $matches[3];
$latm = $matches[4];
$lat_sign = $matches[2];
$lat_dec = $latd + $latm / 60;
$lat_dec = $lat_sign . $lat_dec;

return $lat_dec;
}

/**
* Grab Longitude from message body
* Coordinates must be in the form: 34d13.345,-123d45.234
* That’s degrees, then ‘d’ and then minutes.minutes
*/
function getLon ( $data )
{

$coords = ‘((-?)(\d+)d(\d+\.\d+)),((-?)(\d+)d(\d+\.\d+))’;

preg_match(“/$coords/mx”,$data,$matches);
//$lon=$matches[5];

/* Convert to Decimal */
$lond = $matches[7];
$lonm = $matches[8];
$lon_sign = $matches[6];
$lon_dec = $lond + $lonm / 60;
$lon_dec = $lon_sign . $lon_dec;

return $lon_dec;
}

I’d like to say this mod rocks! Just one question, anyone know how to modify the script so I can use the mail filter option rather than using cron jobs?

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does any one have a fix for the html problem? when I email a post using thunderbird it shows the raw html coding.

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when i post with or without picture i have:

ok–> essai sans image
ok–> cat 2

but i have this displayed also. How can i do for remove this?
< !DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">

charset=3Dus-ascii">

rial size=3D2>essai =
sans=20
image

sorry this is the problem:
essai sans image
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my problem here http://www.cdprod.org/pb.JPG
because i can’t display code here. sorry for my multi posts!

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The problem with the post names appears to be in the original wp-mail.php and John’s. I hunted about in the PHP and the problem is that the post_name field is not being populated when the message is parsed. Open wp-mail.php (John’s) and find the block of code that reads:

$details = array(
‘post_author’ => $poster,
‘post_date’ => $post_date,
‘post_date_gmt’ => $post_date_gmt,
‘post_content’ => $content,
‘post_title’ => $subject,
‘post_modified’ => $post_date,
‘post_modified_gmt’ => $post_date_gmt
);

and change it by adding the post_name field:

$details = array(
‘post_author’ => $poster,
‘post_date’ => $post_date,
‘post_date_gmt’ => $post_date_gmt,
‘post_content’ => $content,
‘post_title’ => $subject,
‘post_modified’ => $post_date,
‘post_modified_gmt’ => $post_date_gmt,
‘post_name’ => sanitize($subject)
);

Tested and seems to work.

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Another tweak I made was to the posting time… right now, if you use a cron job to process the email, any posts that get processed appear at the time the cron job runs, not when they were actually submitted.

To fix this, change the following two lines:
$post_date = date('Y-m-d H:i:s', time($ddate) + ($time_difference * 3600));
$post_date_gmt = gmdate('Y-m-d H:i:s', time($ddate) );

to (changes in bold):
$post_date = date('Y-m-d H:i:s', strtotime($ddate) + ($time_difference * 3600));
$post_date_gmt = gmdate('Y-m-d H:i:s', strtotime($ddate) );

Enjoy!

Oops… changes didn’t show up bold.

Just change the call to the “time” function to “strtotime” instead.

One thing this script doesn’t do is add a slug, which is necessary for those of us who have mucked around with our permalink structure via Mod.rewrite. Here’s how I modified this script to add a slug:

After this code…


if (empty($post_categories))
$post_categories[] = get_settings('default_category');


Add this code:


// creates a variable to be used as the post's slug
$array_post_name = explode(" ", strtolower($subject));
$string_post_name = implode("-", $array_post_name);


Then add a line to your $details array like this:


$details = array(
'post_author' => $poster,
'post_date' => $post_date,
'post_date_gmt' => $post_date_gmt,
'post_content' => $content,
'post_title' => $subject,
'post_modified' => $post_date,
'post_modified_gmt' => $post_date_gmt,
'post_name' => $string_post_name
);


I also hacked mine to use the free Audioblogger system with WordPress. It’s pretty easy, since you can get Audioblogger to send an HTML formatted email to a specified address whenever you post. Then you just write a function to strip out some of the code from that email. If anyone wants me to post a tutorial here or on my site, I will.

Thanks for this cool hack. I love using it with cell phone photos too.

I’ve been setting up wordpress for some friends, including adding this plugin and they’re also having the problem mentioned above that emails aren’t being deleted from the server, and the ‘foreach’ message shows up for some of them. I’m happy to have a go at debugging the plugin myself, but wanted to check whether a patch was available?

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I have everything working perfectly except since my mail server is 8 hours behind GMT all my emails post at the time the mail server receives them. Any suggestions to change it?
I have tried the strto fix, but didn’t know where to “just change the call to the ‘time’ function to ‘strtotime’ instead”.

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Just made a clean install of WP 1.2.2 and configged original Writing-by-email, which worked like a charm. Dropped the three files of wp-mail mod 0.2 and created directories, and sending email (HTML) with picture attachment, all I get is “Mission complete, message 1 deleted.” and no action (email not even deleted as reported).

I have the same problem as comment #84. Using WP 1.2.2 (PHP 5.0.3, Apache 2.0.52/Win2K). Original wp-mail working. Did some quick debugging, seems to stop at first if-statement in mimedecode ‘decode’, removed these static checks and changed to non-static call to ‘decode’ from wp-mail which made it able to post with correct subject/time but no content. Help? Have tried mailing from different clients, setting HTML where possible.

Ok – thanks for everyone’s commments and patches. I’ve been pretty slack on the coding front lately but I’m going to remedy that with a new version of wpmail this week.

For everyone running PHP5 (Han’s, etc) wp-mail ver 0.2 won’t work. This is because of a problem with Pear’s mimedecode objective stuff being messed up. I’ve fixed it and submitted the bugs to Pear, so basically it’s fixed in wp-mail ver 0.3.

I’m just testing 0.3 now and if it passes by the end of the week I’ll post it up. Stay tuned…

Excited to see the new version! I’m having a problem with the current .2. I’m trying to post .wav files sent as email attachments, but it just disappears. A zip file I attached as a test worked fine, linked and posted in the wp-filez dir, so I suspect there’s something weird about a .wav file being a MIME file…? Anyway, thanks for your work on this.

anyone know how to fix the thunderbird html format?. i would like to use this hack, but not change my favorite email client.

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Yes! It’s working it’s working! Thanks so much for the script, though I had to modify it to match my GMT settings.

Just modify $time_difference * 3600 in:

$post_date = date(‘Y-m-d H:i:s’, time($ddate) + ($time_difference * 3600));
$post_date_gmt = gmdate(‘Y-m-d H:i:s’, time($ddate) );

Change the numbers to match the timeserver of your cron job. It’ll be different for each server.

Sent out using PLAIN text. Tried to modify with the suggestions given above for HTML, but it still did not turn out well. Plus, if I posted with picture in HTML via email, I’ll still get the error thing about the $post_categories.

Mobile-blogging OK. Just make sure you have your mobile-email stored as an email under users in wp inself to work. Formatting still lacking though (sadly).

Otherwise, I’ll say this works just fine for me!

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I just updated gd and php to 4.3.10 now the image resize hack as shown above gives me a file not found error (*NOTE only when there is a image attached, it works perfect without an image)

Any Ideas?

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Has anybody fixed the HTML problem? It suspect it shouldn’t be to hard? (php has built in strip functions, doesn’t it)?

I am keen to hear if somebody has some idea’s or working hacks!