Title: Emailing in posts using gmail
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Emailing in posts using gmail

 *  [SamF](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samf/)
 * (@samf)
 * [19 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/emailing-in-posts-using-gmail/)
 * Hi all,
 * I’m trying to set up a gmail account that I can use to email posts.
    - I created a new account, [samf.blog@gmail.com](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/emailing-in-posts-using-gmail/samf.blog@gmail.com?output_format=md)(
      not the real address)
    - I enabled pop access
    - I set my Mail Server in ‘Post via e-mail’ to be pop.gmail.com, and my port
      to be 995
    - I put in my user name and password (I also tried including the [@gmail](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gmail/).
      com in my user name)
    - I sent a mail to [samf.blog@gmail.com](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/emailing-in-posts-using-gmail/samf.blog@gmail.com?output_format=md)
    - But nothing happened. What am I doing wrong? Is gmail not correctly set up
      to work with WordPress?

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 *  [Class](https://wordpress.org/support/users/class/)
 * (@class)
 * [19 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/emailing-in-posts-using-gmail/#post-528858)
 * I assume you log into pop.gmail.com:995 with a ordinary pop client?
    When logging
   into that gmail account, is the mail you wrote there? Just trying to find out
   if it was picket up or not.
 *  [brianstanfill](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brianstanfill/)
 * (@brianstanfill)
 * [19 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/emailing-in-posts-using-gmail/#post-529130)
 * I think because gmail requires SSL authentication, the POP server will not authenticate
   wp-mail.php until it includes an option for SSL authentication.
 * Can anyone verify?
 * Incoming Mail (POP3) Server – requires SSL: pop.gmail.com
    Use SSL: Yes Port:
   995
 *  [brianstanfill](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brianstanfill/)
 * (@brianstanfill)
 * [19 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/emailing-in-posts-using-gmail/#post-529131)
 * I verified that I can successfully post via email using a POP server that does
   not require SSL authentication.
 *     ```
       Author = [removed]
   
       Content-type: multipart/alternative, boundary: ----=_Part_95115_29112534.1174289871014
   
       Raw content:
   
       Author: 1
   
       Posted title: testing email blog post
       Posted content:
   
       Mission complete, message 1 deleted.
       ```
   
 *  [zappoman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zappoman/)
 * (@zappoman)
 * [19 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/emailing-in-posts-using-gmail/#post-529135)
 * Couple suggestions… First of all, if you want to use the “Post via E-mail” feature
   built in to WordPress, then you have to use a POP3 server that is not running
   over SSL.
 * Gmail only supports access to POP via SSL.
 * So the first thing you need to do is to go find a wordpress plugin that support
   POPvSSL. A great choice appears to be “postie” which also supports a ton of other
   great features.
 * Look for it here… [http://postie.economysizegeek.com/](http://postie.economysizegeek.com/)
 * Second, if you are having problems with this on a Win32 server machine, your 
   problem may be related to these PHP bugs…
 * [http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=29036](http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=29036)
   
   [http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=36496](http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=36496)
 * Apparently php_imap.dll doesn’t work with php_openssl.dll on Win32.
 * The bug appears to have been fixed in PHP builds after Feb. 19, 2007.
 * Good Luck.
 *  [vshare](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vshare/)
 * (@vshare)
 * [18 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/emailing-in-posts-using-gmail/#post-529184)
 * blog via gmail works this way
 * pop server : ssl://pop.gmail.com
    port:995
 * rest the same
 *  [akulavolk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/akulavolk/)
 * (@akulavolk)
 * [18 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/emailing-in-posts-using-gmail/#post-529185)
 * vshare, have you confirmed that ssl://pop.gmail.com works? I haven’t been able
   to get this to work. Everything I’ve read about WordPress’ blog-by-mail support
   suggest it doesn’t support SSL, even if you list an SSL server for your POP server.
 * Have you tried this and gotten it working? If so, what other software have you
   installed to get this to work?
 * BTW, sorry to double-post here, but I noticed the comment from vshare in two 
   threads. Since both threads come up in a Google search re: Gmail & WordPress 
   posting, it’s worth updating both. CC: [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/119392?replies=2](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/119392?replies=2)
   Would really like to know if anyone’s gotten this to work.
 *  [jaso](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jaso/)
 * (@jaso)
 * [18 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/emailing-in-posts-using-gmail/#post-529206)
 * It looks as if you need the php method fsockopen() for php to get your email.
   Some web hosts disable that function, like mine does (grrrr).
 * See [this post](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/127847).

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 * [email](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/email/)
 * [gmail](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/gmail/)
 * [pop](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/pop/)
 * [SSL](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/ssl/)

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