email post problem solved (sort of)
WordPress 1.5 has a nice email-to-blog feature, but it does not work out of the box. I set everything up according to the instruction, but got the following error message:
"Ooops POP3: premature NOOP OK, NOT an RFC 1939 Compliant server" (try Google it)
Found the following link: http://wordpress.org/support/topic.php?id=3D5436
Support Maven carthik (http://blog.carthik.net/) suggests:
Try changing the username from example@example.com to just example if you see what I mean. For me, it works on one mailserver, and on the other, it gives me the error described here. I think when a script tries to access the mailserver and the mailserver doesn’t like it/something’s wrong, this error is generated, but I am not absolutely sure
Posted: 2004-05-16 23:47:48 #
And then Member digory suggested the following hack:
To fix, edit wp-includes/class-pop3.php, and change this line:
if($this->RFC1939) {
to this: if(!$this->RFC1939) {
(add exclamation point).
Posted: 2004-06-28 16:24:01 #
It took both of these to work in my case. And my first post was a disaster — I used HTML in my email with pictures, which was encoded in BASE64. Everything was on the blog verbatum. And I have trouble deleting it. Let’s see if this one works.
[Update: Plain text is also problematic. First, my email program does hard linebreaks/word wrapping. It adds "=" at the end of a line, which are shown in the blog. Need to filter these out. But secondly, plain text is not compatable with the WYGIWYS editor plug in I am using. Until these problems are fixed (by whom? not me!), it’s not a practicle route, unfortunately.]
Another questions — I don’t know whether WordPress automatically checks the mailer account, and how often it does. I had to manually refresh wp-mail.php