Title: Post via e-mail Problem
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Post via e-mail Problem

 *  [metras3](https://wordpress.org/support/users/metras3/)
 * (@metras3)
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-via-e-mail-problem/)
 * I am trying to post email to my Word Press blog.
    I have setup the email account
   and made sure I could email to it and receive email via outlook. Then I removed
   the account from Outlooks so I wouldn’t interfere while I was setting up Word
   Press. All seems well except I have this problem. When I poll the email account
   using “wp-mail.pnp” with Word Press I get one of two messages. “There doesn’t
   seem to be any new mail.” or “Slow down cowboy, no need to check for new mails
   so often!” ( I understand this message!) The emails stay in the INBOX unread.
   I think this might be a simple fix and there is something I missed. Then Instructions
   are very easy to understand. And I haven’t found anything in the forum yet that
   makes it work. Can you help? Marty Word Press vers 2.9.2

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 *  Thread Starter [metras3](https://wordpress.org/support/users/metras3/)
 * (@metras3)
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-via-e-mail-problem/#post-1395344)
 * Update After I did more work on this.
    I have tryed to poll email into Word press
   from Yahoo, NetZero and a couple of other pop accounts just to see if the problem
   was the new email account. Well I either get the message that there is non or
   to wait a while as before. This is telling me that the problem is somewhere in
   WordPress or my or my ISP doing something that isn’t letting WordPress get the
   mail.
 * Any Ideas?
    Marty
 *  [ajbird](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ajbird/)
 * (@ajbird)
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-via-e-mail-problem/#post-1395406)
 * I am having the same prob
 * 2.9.1
 * I can see the emails in the mail account wordpress just claims there is nothing
   there….
 * Andy
 *  [davidjosephmoody](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davidjosephmoody/)
 * (@davidjosephmoody)
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-via-e-mail-problem/#post-1395419)
 * I’m having an oddly similar but not identical problem. I set up a mailing list
   on my server that only accepts messages from addresses on the list. It sends 
   me an email telling me to review and accept reject or defer if they’re not on
   the list.
 * That way, all my users can post directly to the site; cool.
 * Problem is, it doesn’t work. When I use the wp-mail.php page, it detects the 
   messages and then deletes them. Somewhere in the middle, it forgets to post them
   to the site . . .
 * Anyone have any ideas?
 *  [cgreer96](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cgreer96/)
 * (@cgreer96)
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-via-e-mail-problem/#post-1395450)
 * I am having this problem as well. Anyone have a solution?
 *  [brasstrumpetman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brasstrumpetman/)
 * (@brasstrumpetman)
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-via-e-mail-problem/#post-1395451)
 * Managed to fix this problem by adding a new admin account under the Users tab.
   Make sure the email address is the same as the one your sending from. Quite a
   neat security feature to stop unwanted postings.
 *  [cgreer96](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cgreer96/)
 * (@cgreer96)
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-via-e-mail-problem/#post-1395452)
 * Still not working for me. Created new admin account with the same email address
   that I have set up on my webhost, but the wp-email.php says that it “appears”
   there are no posts.
 *  [saildude](https://wordpress.org/support/users/saildude/)
 * (@saildude)
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-via-e-mail-problem/#post-1395453)
 * Have you read this?
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Post_to_your_blog_using_email](http://codex.wordpress.org/Post_to_your_blog_using_email)
 * When I set up my site for email I missed the part about adding the line of code
   in the footer code to call the check for email ( only checks when the site is
   looked at ). I did have the part of the secret email account set up in “Settings–
   Writing” – but things would not work without the iframe code.
 *  [cgreer96](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cgreer96/)
 * (@cgreer96)
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-via-e-mail-problem/#post-1395454)
 * The thing is it doesn’t even show the posts in my wordpress admin area, much 
   less on the page where the footer code goes. When I manually check for new posts
   in the email account it says there are none to be found. However if I go and 
   log in to that email account I can see the posts just sitting there, waiting 
   to be retrieved.
 *  [Brent Leavitt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brentleavitt/)
 * (@brentleavitt)
 * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-via-e-mail-problem/#post-1395467)
 * Has anyone found a solution to this issue yet? I’m seeing that this is now about
   three weeks old, I’m wondering if attempts to fix this were abandoned or if there
   was any further insight.
 * I’m experiencing the same issue as cgreer96 and metras3. I’ve got the email sitting
   on my server and the wp-mail.php script is not accessing it. At this point, I’m
   suspecting that there is some sort of block between my hosting account server
   and the remote email server as they are on different hosts.
 * Any other ideas?
 * Thanks,
    Brent
 *  [Rev. Voodoo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rvoodoo/)
 * (@rvoodoo)
 * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-via-e-mail-problem/#post-1395468)
 * I tried setting up the post by email….. it worked. Then it didn’t.
 * Off and on. Finally I gave up, and tried several other solutions before stumbling
   on one I like.
 * posterous.com is what I use.
 * I set up with them….I send an email, it gets posted on my wordpress. (and twitter,
   facebook, flickr…etc if I want)
    Plus I can send pics, media, etc and it gets
   posted.
 * Some people don’t like using an outside service…..I’m not picky. I just wanted
   good functionality
 *  [bschirf](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bschirf/)
 * (@bschirf)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-via-e-mail-problem/#post-1395478)
 * I too was having this problem, and I think I just solved it.
 * The instructions state that we enter the “Mail Server”. Thus, I have been entering
   the name of the server that I enter into my browser when getting in for “Web 
   Mail”. E.g.: email.yourdomain.com
 * When I did this, the wp-mail.php reports that there are no messages. Thus, I 
   thought I entered the correct server name.
 * So, after beating my head against a wall for 2 days (and half a fifth of bourbon)
   I happened to see instructions that said we should enter “Incoming Server” and
   I thought that strange.
 * I went back into wp-admin, settings, writing… and changed the mail server field
   to reflect the “Incoming (POP3) Server” value. For GoDaddy, that is: pop.secureserver.
   net
 * BAM! It is now pulling email into WordPress!
 * If anyone from WP is listening… please make the instructions more clear! I suspect
   that a lot of people are making this same rookie mistake!
 *  [jtank](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jtank/)
 * (@jtank)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-via-e-mail-problem/#post-1395481)
 * POTENTIAL SOLUTION FOR US ALL!!!
 * I had the same problem as many of you… there is a security feature that says 
   the email you send FROM must be a user of your blog. Else, it dumps it and no
   post.
 * So, for every email account you wish to send posts FROM, create a user account
   in your admin area. I hope this helps some of you. It did for me.
 * Best to you all
    jtank.com
 *  [likewinters](https://wordpress.org/support/users/likewinters/)
 * (@likewinters)
 * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-via-e-mail-problem/#post-1395482)
 * Yes, I needed to update my server to **ssl://pop.gmail.com**
 * the port # is 995 for them
 * I also added the script in the footer from [http://codex.wordpress.org/Post_to_your_blog_using_email](http://codex.wordpress.org/Post_to_your_blog_using_email)
 *  [justinrosenthal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/justinrosenthal/)
 * (@justinrosenthal)
 * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-via-e-mail-problem/#post-1395485)
 * Two separate issues here, both introduced by 2.9.1
    1) wp-mail.php now authenticates
   the incoming message to check if the sender’s address matches a current user’s
   address, and that that user has permission to publish a) if not, post status 
   is set to “pending” b) if so, post is published 2) wp-mail.php now includes the
   lines (at line 23):
 *     ```
       $last_checked = get_transient('mailserver_last_checked');
       //if ( $last_checked )
       	wp_die(__('Slow down cowboy, no need to check for new mails so often!'));
       ```
   
 * This code can kill the process to check for mail, preventing your post from being
   retrieved.
 * To check if your problem is (2) above, navigate to [http://www.yourdomain.com/wp_mail.php](http://www.yourdomain.com/wp_mail.php),
   and see if the words “Slow down cowboy, no need to check for new mails so often!”
   appear. If they do, that’s your problem. Only solution I have found is to comment
   out these lines.
 *  [petrusfajarsubekti](https://wordpress.org/support/users/petrusfajarsubekti/)
 * (@petrusfajarsubekti)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-via-e-mail-problem/#post-1395492)
 * Hmmm… I never know that we can post by email.
 * Why that “slow down cowboy…” trouble the system?
    Does WP didn’t debug this? 
   I will try this thing on my [blog](http://www.gameiterator.com)

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