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wp-mail mod update! Now 0.2!

Thanks for all the feedback for my last wp-mail mod. I’ve done a lot of bug fixing in this release, and added a few features. Still working on improving though, so let me know how you guys go with this version!

Here’s the new version: Thanks for all the feedback for my last wp-mail mod. I’ve done a lot
of bug fixing in this release, and added a few features. Still
working on improving though, so let me know how you guys go with this
version!

Here’s the new version:wp-mail-0.2.zip

<rip from README-wp-mail.php>
Wordpress 1.2 - wp-mail hack
Released 2004-08-26 - Version 0.2
By John B. Hewitt - blade@lansmash.com
Blog: http://blade.lansmash.com

License
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It’s GPL! Credits are in the wp-mail.php code.

Introduction
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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).

History
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* Version 0.2 - 2004-08-26
* - Stopped using pear body decoding in favour of own decoding (may be slower but more modifiable) because of enriched text decoding
* - Added base64_decode checking (may help mobile phone users)
* - Fixed Subject line for non-english users (htmlentities instead of just trim)
* - Fixed error in some pop hanging -> more graceful exit on event on no emails in inbox ($pop3->quit)
* - Added work around for email addresses with exta <> in field (ie: <blade@lansmash.com> instead of blade@lasmash.com
* - Added some ===basic=== enriched text support
* - Updated readme file for easier install
* - Easy modify of globals (such as photosdir and filesdir)
* - Cleaned up some pear stuff in install
*
* Version 0.1 - 2004-06-20
* First release (was released under version 1.0 initially, oh boy was I silly)

Features
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It has all the abilities of the current wp-mail.php plus:
- Allows image attachments (posts inline! Main reason I built this mod!!)
- Checks if user email address is in the database (otherwise discards message)
- Allows other file attachments (zip’s, exe’s, etc)
- You can post to various categories (ie, 1 = General)
- Fairly good cleaner for removing excessive line breaks

Would love to see it in the wordpress core
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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 coding standard.

Install
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To install you grab the zip file.
- - Drop the two files (wp-mail.php & mailmimedecode.php & PEAR.php) into your wordpress 1.2 root directory
- - Create the directories ‘wp-photos’ and ‘wp-filez’ in the wordpress root directory (with writing permissions (probably 0777).

That’s it. You should now be able to post email to wordpress.

Features to come
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Immediate features to come:
- Direct email script that parses email as it comes in (so removes cronjobs)
- GPG/PGP signature verification
- Better enriched text support (only basic stuff at the moment)
- Better security for file attachments (no .php stuff, less l33t hax0rs)
- Look ups for Category posting

Usage
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You can use the wp-mail hack just like the old wp-mail.

Make sure you change your email client to use HTML encoded messages, that way you’ll get a better looking post that is similar to what you emailed.

When emailing to your blog you can also change the category the post is going to. To do so change the subject line to include [1] at the beginning where one is the number of the category you want to post to.
1 is usually General’s category, so if I want my email to go to the General board I type:
Subject: [1] This is a test

FAQ
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- If you are using Mozilla (thunderbird,etc), use HTML mail! Not HTML/TEXT combined! (One day this script will be able to decode both at the same time, just not today)
- If you are using Outook/Outlook express, use HTML mail!
- If you are using Mac OS X email, you’re sweet
- You can change the default photos and files directories. The variables are on the top of the wp-mail.php code.

Written by JB Hewitt

August 26th, 2004 at 8:50 am

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Lars 4 years ago 1 point
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Good work! Now I am able to use my SE T610 for moblogging. Thank you, John.

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http://blog.weblars.de/wp

Felixe 4 years ago 1 point
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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?

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http://domovolcanico.com/felixe

Jim Levin 4 years ago 1 point
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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-not... ). Please let me know if you have any thoughts or would like me to do any testing. Thanks again.

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John Arnold 4 years ago 1 point
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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.

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http://holosite.servepics.com/baby/

Jim Levin 4 years ago 1 point
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One additional question: The code that strips signatures (after --) also seems to strip off my photo attachment. Any suggestions?

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erik hodson 4 years ago 1 point
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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!

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http://www.heymelby.com/wordpress

nate 4 years ago 1 point
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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.

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http://www.project222.com/nate

nate 4 years ago 1 point
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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.

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http://www.project222.com/nate

nate 4 years ago 1 point
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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.

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http://www.project222.com/nate

John 4 years ago 1 point
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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?

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JohnBlade 4 years ago 1 point
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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.

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Chris Hansen 4 years ago 1 point
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Sweet! Now I can post from my camera phone! Great job, great code.

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http://www.tchansen.org

johnny 4 years ago 1 point
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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!

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http://www.spreeblick.de

johnny 4 years ago 1 point
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I re-installed. And it works. Sorry for the mess-up, thanks for a great script!

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http://www.spreeblick.de

Brint 4 years ago 1 point
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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 :)

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http://bekit.net

Dan 4 years ago 1 point
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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.

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Brint 4 years ago 1 point
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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!

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http://bekit.net

Ingrid 4 years ago 1 point
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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 ?

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http://www.iblog.dk/nldk

Hugo 4 years ago 1 point
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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); $maxdim = 200; // maximum height $size = getimagesize($filename); if ((1 < = $size[2]) && ($size[2] <= 3) || ($size[2] == 15)) { // handles JPG, GIF, PNG, and WBMP if ($size[0] > $size[1]) { $sizemin[0]=$maxdim; $sizemin[1]=$maxdim * $size[1] / $size[0]; } if ($size[1] > $size[0]) { $sizemin[0] = $maxdim * $size[0] / $size[1]; $sizemin[1] = $maxdim; } switch ($size[2]) { case 1: $im = @imagecreatefromgif($filename); break; case 2: $im = @imagecreatefromjpeg($filename); break; case 3: $im = @imagecreatefrompng($filename); break; case 15: $im = @imagecreatefromwbmp($filename); break; } $small = imagecreatetruecolor($sizemin[0], $sizemin[1]); // new image ImageCopyResampled($small, $im, 0, 0, 0, 0, $sizemin[0], $sizemin[1], $size[0], $size[1]); $small_filename = $photosdir . rand() . '.' . "jpg"; ImageDestroy($im); // free memory if (ImageJPEG($small,$small_filename,100)) // try to save image { echo "File $path has been written \n"; // success echo "size: ".$sizemin[0]."x".$sizemin[1] ." \n"; } else { echo "<font color="red">"; // failed to write file echo "Error ! File has not been written."; echo "</font> \n"; } $meta_return .= '<a target="_blank" href="' . $filename . '" onclick="popUp('viewer.php?image='.$filename.'','Image Viewer',' . round($size[0],0) . ',' . round($size[1],0) . '); return false;"><img src="' . $small_filename . '" alt="' . $part->ctype_parameters['name'] . '">ctype_parameters['name'] . '"></img>' . "\n"; } else { $meta_return .= '"<img src="' . $filename . '" alt="' . $part->ctype_parameters['name'] . '">ctype_parameters['name'] . '"/>' . "\n"; } break; < /></img>

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'); }

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Mudhenn 4 years ago 1 point
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this must be an error:
if ((1 $size[1]) {

how do I insert the script in index.php?

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http://mud.vienna360.net

Mudhenn 4 years ago 1 point
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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)

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http://mud.vienna360.net

Mudhenn 4 years ago 1 point
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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...

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