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

Blogger's mail2Post tool lets authors brand blog-posts, without using the Blogger software.   All you lot postulate to practice is laid it up, in addition to write posts using your regular e-mail tools.

Mail2Post in addition to Blogger

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

It's non quite equally expert equally using Blogger itself - in that location are a few features missing - but it is expert plenty inwards many situations.

How to ready mail2Post

Log inwards to Blogger amongst the Google account that you lot desire to bring mail2Post rights to your blog:  this trouble concern human relationship needs to already hold out set upwards equally an author for the the blog.

Go to

• The Settings tab - if you lot are logged on amongst an writer account, or
• The Settings > Email tab if you lot are using an administrator trouble concern human relationship  

Beside Posting using email, in that location is a house where you lot tin sack locomote into about "secretWords", to brand upwards an e-mail address that you lot tin sack purpose to post to your blog.

Enter about suitable words:  make certain it's not also slowly to guess (your surname would non hold out a expert choice!), hence that spammers cannot larn into it:

Choose either to position out emailed updates equally presently equally they arrive, or to save e-mail equally drafts hence that you,  or another administrator, tin sack review them earlier posting.

Note down the amount e-mail address, ie   NAME.your-secret-words@blogger.com   (you volition postulate this later on - in addition to unfortunately because of the means it's displayed, it is non slowly to copy-and-paste the value).

Click Save Settings.


Job Done!   Your weblog is similar a shot ready hence that posts tin sack hold out created past times existence emailed to it, instead of requiring somebody to purpose the Blogger software to write each post.

Using the mail2Post address

Once mail2Post is laid up, anyone who sends an e-mail message to the e-mail address you lot copied tin sack post to your blog, amongst what ever restrictions you lot set.

You might position message on your weblog saying

 "send contributions to YOURNAME.YOURSECRETWORDS@blogger.com"

But hold out aware that this could generate a lot of spam.   And inwards the worse case, the spam could larn your weblog deleted for breaking Blogger's damage in addition to conditions.

Alternatively, you lot powerfulness simply tell the address to selected people - or possibly fifty-fifty simply purpose 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 torso of the email message becomes the body of the post
• I think:  If you lot automatically position out emailed posts, hence the post date-and-time is the instant at which Blogger's servers received the incoming e-mail message - expressed inwards Blogger's default fourth 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 ready the mail2Post address.

Pictures in addition to Videos
People bring reported diverse results when they include images in addition to videos within messages sent via mail2Post.   Personally, I bring tested:

• An attached picture - posted ok, the prototype is demo earlier all the text from the torso of the e-mail message
• An attached video file (4meg) - posted ok amongst the video appearing to hold out higher upwards the text from the e-mail message
• An in-line photo - worked perfectly, the moving painting is placed inwards the post inwards the same seat (relative to the text) that it was inwards the master copy email.

I suspect that the results  depend on they type of picture, the e-mail customer you lot are using, in addition to the message format settings.   My testing was amongst Mozilla Thunderbird, which has a item means of thinking almost "attachments", slightly dissimilar from other e-mail systems that I bring used (eg Microsoft Outlook).

Probably the exclusively means to notice how photos are handled when you lot purpose your e-mail to ship them is to ready a test-blog and experiment amongst dissimilar options.

What your readers see

People who read your weblog inwards a web-browser meet mail2Post entries simply similar whatsoever other posts.   If your weblog displays the poster's name, hence mail2Post entries bring the cry of the blog-author who ready the mail2Post address.

As mentioned before, the positioning of pictures in addition to videos may non e'er hold out equally good:  attached pictures, inwards particular, may hold out shown equally the real halt of the post.

Apart from that, in that location is zip 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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