Just testing this feature of my blogging software (Wordpress) - it allows you to “blog by mail” which is a really fantastic feature. It is not /so /useful just for emailing from some other location, after all, anywhere you have access to email, you are probably going to have access to the web and to your blog’s “backend” too.
What I think it would be really cool for if, like me, you don’t have some device, like a BlackBerry or more fancy mobile/cellphone with Internet access. Actually, I have a phone with GPRS internet access but I cannot access the Web and blog via my backend because my phone can’t run all the fancy AJAX stuff - it’s pretty much limited to HTML. But I can still just about send an email with a picture attached.

Like the one here, of me and Zoli plunging to our collective doom down a hill.
And this is where Wordpress’s blog-by-email feature comes in. I am very much hoping it will allow me to make blog entries from an trip we are planning for the beginning of May (more about that soon!), together with pictures, even if the pictures are just phone camera jobs.
I have to confess, this entry is being sent from my PC, via regular email. But I will keep you posted - the next step will be to try a message from my mobile phone and see if I can get that working. Then I can keep readers posted on a minute by minute (well, not that often) basis, on our next Serbian mountain biking adventure!
P.S. Credit to the awesome Postie plugin - posting pictures by mail doesn’t seem to work with the standard Wordpress blog-by-mail feature.

P.P.S. Took me a little while to get this working. As usual, there are always some simple things assumed by the writer of the instructions which haven’t been emphasised for the benefit of people like me So feel free to ask if you are having trouble getting this working, I may well have been there!

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Posted on March 27th, 2007 by markowe
Filed under: MTB Serbia (All)