process inbound email to post to a CMS

d_l

I'm interested in receiving inbound email to render as web content in joomla CMS ..

examples ..

http://www.evolt.org/article/Incoming_Mail_and_PHP/18/27914/index.html

What do we want?

We want to write and install a script that handles incoming mail. We want our script not to be reachable by a web browser, but by our email client. Sending an email to script@example.com would suffice for running our script and processing the mail.

and here ..

http://codex.wordpress.org/Blog_by_Email

WordPress can be configured to use e-mail to post to a blog. To enable this functionality, you need to: ..........

How can I set this up on my hosted Apache2.2/PHP5 server as cgi script .. or shell script?

Thanks.

halojoy

have you followed STEP by STEP instructions
here:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Blog_by_Email#Setting_Up_Post_via_E-mail

what I can see WP has got this feature,and you only need to activate it.
If you have admin login access to your wp blog
then you can CONFIGURE WP.

Regards 🙂
halojoy

WordPress can be configured to use e-mail to post to a blog. To enable this functionality, you need to:

Create a dedicated e-mail account to be used solely for posting to your blog,

Configure WordPress to access that account, and

Configure WordPress to publish messages from the e-mail account

d_l

As I indicated above .. I'm targetting Joomla CMS and not WordPress .. but I'll setup a test WordPress site and play around.

I guess one option might be to email content to WordPress then display that content in Joomla container. That would keep accounts separate.

I'll try out some clients too ..

http://codex.wordpress.org/Weblog_Client

But I would prefer to receive content from the User's own mail client (e.g. form in Outlook 2007) without need for another client to be installed.

Thanks.

halojoy

sorry

you think there is something like it, in Joomla
I am almost sure there may be som MOD, module, modification for this.
There are so many Joomla users (one of the largest CMS in the world)

I would try FIRST at Joomla CMS Community forum.
They would give you best advice.

Regards
halojoy

NogDog

If you end up needing to write your own, you will want to look at the IMAP, POP3 and NNTP Functions.