John Turner

I tried setting up WP’s “blogging by mail” feature, where WP reads an email account via POP3 and converts the email messages into blog posts. Doesn’t work, and I’ve tried it with both GMail and an email account hosted on a regular domain.

The GMail way doesn’t work, apparently, because GMail is not POP3, it is POPS or POP3S or whatever it is called. Basically “secure POP3″, which means it runs on port 995, not port 110 like plain old friendly insecure POP3. But the other, non-free-email account way should work. This needs more investigation…I’d love to be able to blog by sending email from my crackberry.