Programatically posting via e-mail to a wordpress.com hosted blog

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  wxnorthwest · Member · Jul 9, 2013 at 6:16 pm

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  I’m trying to post by e-mail with the e-mail being generated by a php script on another site.
  This is the code I’m using:

  $to = “(email visible only to moderators and staff), (email visible only to moderators and staff), (email visible only to moderators and staff)”;
  $subject = ” *** test message: ” . date(‘r’);

  $headers = “From: (email visible only to moderators and staff)” . “rn”;
  $headers .= “Reply-To: (email visible only to moderators and staff)” . “rn”;

  $headers .= “MIME-Version: 1.0” . “rn”;
  $headers .= “Content-type:text/html;charset=iso-8859-1” . “rnrn”;

  $message = “This is a test message”;

  mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);

  print “

  " . date('r'). "nnmail to: $to nnn";	
  
  ?>
  
  Invoking this script sends e-mail to my msn account, my yahoo account, but apparently not to my wordpress-hosted blog.  
  
  Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong or where/how to troubleshoot?
  
  Thanks
  Jim Little
  jamesrlittle at msn.com

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  wxnorthwest · Member · Jul 9, 2013 at 6:18 pm

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  I see the e-mails got redacted above…but for the record the third address was the wordpress generated “secret” e-mail address for posting to the blog.

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  wxnorthwest · Member · Jul 9, 2013 at 6:21 pm

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  I also see that some backslashes got removed…but the “rnrn’s” above are backslash r backslash n etc… IE the php script works… the mail just seems to not be getting into the wordpress blog