How do I email entries to my blog?
You can simply email entries to your blog by sending an email to:
The subject line of your email will be considered the blog-entry title, with the remaining email body forming the body of the blog-entry. Entries can take up to 10 minutes to appear live on your site. You will be alerted with an email of your success or failure on the posting attempt.
There are a couple of ways we authenticate that the email coming from you is valid. You can setup up either a trusted email address, or you can specify a magic keyword in the subject.
Subject: magickeyword$blog entry title
In addition to your email body you can insert special macro commands that puts extra data with your blog.
- [[tags] mytag anothertag moretag] A space separated list of all the tags you want to you use
- [[category] category1 category2] A space separated list of categories that your post belongs to. The category must exist under Settings, categories.
- [[security] securityzone] The name of the security zone to make this post a secure entry
- [[trackback] trackbackurl] The Trackback URL of the post that this entry is talking about
You can set up your email2blog settings if you go to Settings, Email2blog (3)
Your settings should look like this:
Emailing photos/files/mp3's
You can send photos to your blog album using the email address below.
upload@playblog.blog-city.comSimply attach the photos to your email and send. The image will be inserted and thumbnailed into your photo-album.
