scriptygoddessI know this is a much requested script, and after working with the author of this one, I did find a few other similar ones out there, but I'd never been able to get any of those to work – and this one did quite easily. In any case, Scott's post about it is here.
You can see his detailed instructions here, but here's the "Cliff notes version" for the people who install first and read the directions afterwards when it doens't work 😉 (that's me, by the way) LOL!
1. Make sure your host provider has the following perl modules installed:
Mail::POP3Client
XMLRPC::Lite
2. Download the pop3-mt script (here). Save that locally – rename it pop3-to-MT.pl
3. Edit the variables as neccessary (see the comments in that file you downloaded)
4. Upload the file to your server. Make sure you CHMOD 755 the file.
5. Set up a cron job to run that .pl file as often as you see fit.
* * * * * /home/USERNAME/pop3-to-MT.pl
that would run the file every minute.
See your host provider about setting this up – if you have a cpanel like interface – there may be a "easy" and an "advanced" version of the interface to set up cron jobs.
6. To email a post, subject line should have a "#" before the text – that is what will let the script know that it's an email to be posted. The subject line will be the title, the body of the email will be the text of the post.
Some personal experience notes:
-When sending posts by email – make sure you're sending the email by PLAIN TEXT – otherwise you'll get a bunch of junk mixed in with your post.
-This script does not currently support username/password – so technically – anyone that figures out which email is scanned for posts – well, you can imagine the possibilities. 😉 I'd suggest setting up a special account with a hard to guess address: q3oikfq34rtjr90qw3p04j@yourdomain.com for example 😉
-HTML in your posts (like links and stuff) don't appear to work just yet. When I posted <a href="http://www.google.com">google</a> posted like this:
href="http://www.google.com">google
