COPYING CREDITS HISTORY PEAR.php config_form.php config_handler.php cronless_postie.php cronless_read_me.php docs/InstallPostie.htm docs/InstallPostie.swf docs/Installation.wnk get_mail.php languages/postie-en_US.mo languages/postie-en_US.po languages/postie.pot mimedecode.php postie-functions.php postie.php postieIMAP.php postie_read_me.php postie_test.php test_files/Test.gif test_files/Test.jpg test_files/Test.png @@ -0,0 +1,109 @@ + +More Information: + +This plugin has a lot features. They are all explained on the +main site (http://www.economysizegeek.com/?page_id=395). + +Install: +Make sure all postie code is its own directory inside of wp-content/plugins/postie +Make two directories in your main wordpress directory wp-filez and wp-photos +Make sure these directories are writable by your web server (chmod 777 or chown to the webserver) +make sure that the postie directory that this file is in is moved to yourwebsite/wp-content/plugins +Login to WordPress as "admin" +Goto the Plugins tab in the WordPress Admin Site +Activate "Postie" +Goto to the "Options" tab and click on the sub-tab "Configure Postie" to configure it. +(Postie ignores the settings under Options->Writing->Writing-by-Email) + + +Setup a cronjob to pull down the get_mail.php +Example: +*/5 * * * * /usr/bin/lynx --source http://www.economysizegeek.com/wp-content/plugins/postie/get_mail.php >/dev/null 2>&1 + +This fetches the mail every five mintues. + +If you don't have access to cron - check out "Cronless Postie" +Features: + +Tips for Using: + * If you put in :start - the message processing won't start until it sees that string + * If you put in :end - the message processing will stop once it sees that string + * Posts can be delayed by adding a line with delayXdXhXm where X is a number. + delay:1d - 1 day + delay:1h - 1 hour + delay:1m - 1 minute + delay:1d2h4m - 1 day 2 hours 4m + * By putting comments:X in your message you can control if comments are allowed + comments:0 - means closed + comments:1 - means open + comments:2 - means registered only + + +Category Handling: + * If you put a category name in the subject with a : it will be used + as the category for the post + * If you put a category id number in the subject with a : it will + be used as the category for the post + * If you put the first part of a category name it will be posted in + the first category that the system finds that matches - so if you put + + Subject: Gen: New News + + The system will post that in General. + + * All of the above also applies if you put the category in brackets [] + * Using [] or you can post to multiple categories at once + + Subject: [1] [Mo] [Br] My Subject + + On my blog it would post to General (Id 1), Moblog, and Brewing all at one time + + * Using - or you can post to multiple categories at once + + Subject: -1- -Mo- -Br- My Subject + + On my blog it would post to General (Id 1), Moblog, and Brewing all at one time + + +Image Handling: + * Postie has a filter to make it easy to show full images on individual pages. + * Tells you if you have GD installed for resizing images + * Allows you to attach images to your email and automatically post + them to your blog + * Large images are automatically thumbnailed and linked to the larger + image (Requires GD) + * You can publish images in the text of your message by using #img1# + #img2# - each one will be replaced with the HTML for the image + you attached + * Rotation - if you include the text + + rotate:90 + + or any other number - all images in the message will be rotated for you. + + * Images are renamed in a way that makes it impossible to accidentally + overwrite images you have already posted + + +General Features: + * You can set the starting characters for you signature so that it + is removed from the posting message + * You can set a list of banned file names so if you provider adds + images to your post they don't show up in the blog + * If you post from an email address that is not a valid author the + email post will be forwarded to the admin + * You can control if you want HTML allowed in the body or subject + of your post + * Lets you set a default subject when you don't set one + * Defaults to posting to the default category you set in Word Press + +Interoperability: + * If your mail client doesn't support setting the subject (nokia) you + can do so by putting #your title here# at the begining of your message + * POP3,POP3-SSL,IMAP,IMAP-SSL now supported - last three require + php-imap support + * The program understands enough about mime to not duplicate post + if you send an HTML and plain text message + * Automatically confirms that you are installed correctly + + README e3d1fcccc5f38eb13d451b1fc94332c3cafac1e1 Dirk Elmendorf dirk@rackspace.com http://github.com/economysizegeek/postie/commit/93cc7facaf1abb4f367d2bb6ccbbf151181fc65d 93cc7facaf1abb4f367d2bb6ccbbf151181fc65d 2008-04-30T05:33:43-07:00 2008-04-30T05:33:43-07:00 Brought over the code from the SVN Repository edb304bdf6abe705dc64e0c7214938687623378c Dirk Elmendorf dirk@rackspace.com