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News!! Mail2post: How To Update Your Spider Spider Web Log Past Times Email, Instead Of Using Blogger

Blogger's mail2Post tool lets authors build blog-posts, without using the Blogger software.   All yous lot require to do is set it up, inward improver to write posts using your regular e-mail tools.

Mail2Post inward improver to Blogger

The mail2Post feature, sometimes known as Post-to-profile, is a agency of putting content on your weblog without using the total Blogger software for writing the post.

It's non quite as skillful as using Blogger itself - inward that location are a few features missing - but it is skillful enough inwards many situations.



How to cook mail2Post

Log inwards to Blogger with the Google account that yous lot wish to pick out mail2Post rights to your blog:  this problem delineate organisation human human relationship needs to already concur out set upwards as an author for the the blog.

Go to
  • The Settings tab - if yous lot are logged on with an author account, or
  • The Settings > Email tab if yous lot are using an administrator problem delineate organisation human human relationship  

Beside Posting using email, inward that location is a household where yous lot tin sack locomote into well-nigh "secretWords", to build upwards an e-mail address that yous lot tin sack role to post to your blog.

Enter well-nigh suitable words:  make sure enough it's not also tardily to guess (your surname would non concur out a skillful choice!), thus that spammers cannot instruct into it:


Choose either to topographic point out emailed updates as soon as they arrive, or to save e-mail as drafts thus that you,  or another administrator, tin sack review them before posting.

Note down the total e-mail address, ie   NAME.your-secret-words@blogger.com   (you testament require this after on - inward improver to unfortunately because of the agency it's displayed, it is non tardily to copy-and-paste the value).

Click Save Settings.


Job Done!   Your weblog is similar a shot cook thus that posts tin sack concur out created by times being emailed to it, instead of requiring person to role the Blogger software to write each post.


Using the mail2Post address

Once mail2Post is set up, anyone who sends an e-mail message to the e-mail address yous lot copied tin sack post to your blog, with what always restrictions yous lot set.

You might topographic point message on your weblog saying
 "send contributions to YOURNAME.YOURSECRETWORDS@blogger.com"
But concur out aware that this could generate a lot of spam.   And inwards the worse case, the spam could instruct your weblog deleted for breaking Blogger's harm inward improver to conditions.

Alternatively, yous lot powerfulness exactly tell the address to selected people - or perchance even out exactly role it yourself.


How is a Blogger Post made from an e-mail message

When a message is sent to your mail2Post address:
  • The subject-line of your e-mail message becomes the Post-title
  • The body of the email message becomes the body of the post
  • I think:  If yous lot automatically topographic point out emailed posts, thus the post date-and-time is the minute at which Blogger's servers received the incoming e-mail message - expressed inwards Blogger's default 4th dimension zone (PST OR PDT, I think).
  • No labels are applied to the post
  • The post-author is the profile cry of the blog-author who cook the mail2Post address.

Pictures inward improver to Videos
People pick out reported various results when they include images inward improver to videos inside messages sent via mail2Post.   Personally, I pick out tested:
  • An attached picture - posted ok, the paradigm is demo before all the text from the body of the e-mail message
  • An attached video file (4meg) - posted ok with the video appearing to concur out higher upwards the text from the e-mail message
  • An in-line photo - worked perfectly, the moving icon is placed inwards the post inwards the same topographic point (relative to the text) that it was inwards the main re-create email.

I suspect that the results  depend on they type of picture, the e-mail client yous lot are using, inward improver to the message format settings.   My testing was with Mozilla Thunderbird, which has a item agency of thinking almost "attachments", slightly different from other e-mail systems that I pick out used (eg Microsoft Outlook).

Probably the entirely agency to divulge how photos are handled when yous lot role your e-mail to ship them is to cook a test-blog and experiment with different options.


What your readers see

People who read your weblog inwards a web-browser run across mail2Post entries exactly similar whatsoever other posts.   If your weblog displays the poster's name, thus mail2Post entries pick out the cry of the blog-author who cook the mail2Post address.

As mentioned before, the positioning of pictures inward improver to videos may non e'er concur out as good:  attached pictures, inwards particular, may concur out shown as the existent stop of the post.

Apart from that, inward that location is nil to demo visitors that the post was created using e-mail - inwards either the post or inwards the blog's RSS feed.



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