Posting via email
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For many many years I have posted on my blog daily by composing in an email and then sending it using a mailing address set up by WordPress many many years ago. A very simple and clean process with no muss or fuss at all. Was not able to post today. I sent the usual morning email and it never posted. I re-sent it. Did not post. Then in the evening I composed the post anew and sent it – never posted. What’s wrong?
WP.com: Yes
Correct account: YesThe blog I need help with is: (visible only to moderators and staff)
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Hey there, I checked your status and it looks like we’ve published all that we’ve received — no errors there.
Would you be willing to do a test post with simple content? Use draft status
[status draft]so your site readers won’t see it. Let us know when you’ve done that, and we’ll take a look at your post by email admin again.Oh, and if you’d like to troubleshoot, here are some ideas:
– Regenerate the post by email address so you have a new address to send to. It’s not a bad idea to do that every so often anyway.
– Try emailing from a different address.
If you try either of those options, let us know that, too.
Talk to you soon!
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Hi again! Just after I answered, I bumped into another thread where people are having trouble with post by email, so apparently it’s not just you! Do you want to follow along here?
https://wordpress.com/forums/topic/issues-with-post-by-email/ -
Actually — it looks like that’s just one person in that thread after all, so we can go ahead and troubleshoot here if you’d like.
When you do the test post, can you share a snippet of the content from the email? Any unique sentence would be fine.
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Secret password: [redacted]
Text from post (unique): The National Finnish Giraffe paid a visit after a long absence
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Thanks for that! I’ve noted the email and redacted it from your post.
We are investigating this because a number of people seem to be affected by this. There’s not much troubleshooting we can do at the moment, but we’ll get in touch to let you know if it’s fixed or if we need additional information.
Thanks for your patience.
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Not yet. As we said earlier we’ll get back in touch to let you know when this has been fixed, so you don’t need to keep asking for an update.
Thanks again for your patience.
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Hi there,
The issue with post by email should now be fixed, but let us know if you still run into any issues.
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