Frequently Asked Questions

Mail is not showing up right when I send html (rich formatted) e-mail!

Make sure you set the preferred text type to html

Do I need to any code to my theme for postie to work?

No.

I read somewhere to add an iframe to my footer. Should I do this?

No. Do not add an iframe in your footer to get postie to check mail periodically. To check e-mail periodically, either set-up a cron job, or use cronless postie. See installation instructions

My mail host requires SSL, but postie will not allow me to select pop3-ssl or imap-ssl

You must have php-imap installed on your server for this to work. Ask your hosting provider about this.

Can I use postie to check a gmail account?

Yes. You can use either pop3-ssl or imap-ssl with a gmail account. Before attempting to use with postie, make sure that you enable pop or imap in your gmail preferences.

My posts show up as being posted by 'admin' instead of me. Why?

If your admin account is linked to bar@gmail.com, and you send mail from bar@gmail.com, it will show up as being posted by admin. If you have a wordpress user named "John Doe", which is linked to johndoe@gmail.com, make sure that you send e-mails from johndoe@gmail.com. It doesn't matter which e-mail address postie is checking. That is, if you send mail from johndoe@gmail.com to foo@gmail.com, it gets posted as "John Doe".

If you send an e-mail to your postie address from an e-mail address that is no t linked to a wordpress user, it will get posted as admin.

Images aren't showing up at all?

There are a couple possible reasons for this. First, check to see if you can add an image through wordpress's normal posting mechanism. If not, then there is probably 1 or 2 problems: 1. Your server does not have the php-gd library installed. Ask your hosting provider about this.

  1. Your wp-content/uploads directory is not writable by the webserver. Make sure that it is

Can I delete the wp-files directory needed by postie version <1.3.0?

If you have posts published already by older versions of postie, getting rid of those directories will delete any files you might have had associated with those old posts. If you don't have any such posts, then you can safely delete them.

How can I get rid of stupid stuff my e-mail provider adds to my messages?

To strip off stuff that they add at the beginning of a message, start your post with :start

To strip off stuff that they add at the end of a message, end your post with :end

How can I add custom attachment icons?

Simply upload the icons you want to the postie/icons/custom directory. You must name the icons according to the following scheme: {filetype}-{size}.png

For example, for word documents, you could use:

doc-32.png

for a 32x32 pixel icon. (You can actually create any size icon you want, but if you name it 32, then it will only be used if you select to use size 32 icons)

See the other directories in icons for more examples.

Currently the following filetypes are supported: