Trouble with categories in post by mail

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  cptpeewee64 · Member · Oct 27, 2021 at 5:38 pm

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  When posting by mail my post keep going to the default category no matter what category shirt code I use in the email

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  supernovia · Staff · Oct 27, 2021 at 11:22 pm

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  Hi @cptpeewee64, I just finished several tests on my site. At first I couldn’t duplicate it, but then I looked at your emails that were not being processed properly and figured out we might be having trouble parsing long category names. Did those longer category names work in the past for you? If so, can you let me know when they last worked? Thanks in advance.

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  supernovia · Staff · Oct 27, 2021 at 11:24 pm

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  Ah, and I went to check to see if I could find records of any successful posts with long category names (I didn’t, but we don’t keep those records for long) and it looks like you may have been conducting the same kinds of tests I was trying.

  Do let us know when you were last able to post by email to a category with a long name. Thanks in advance.

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  cptpeewee64 · Member · Oct 28, 2021 at 11:10 am

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  Thanks. I’ll try shortening all the slugs. That might do it

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  cptpeewee64 · Member · Oct 28, 2021 at 1:25 pm

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  Shortened the slugs and it’s working fine now
  Thanks