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@chris Lacey

That is odd. I just had my wife set it up and it worked perfectly (and she is on iOS 9.2). Are you sure that your signature was actually at the bottom of them email? And can you try to manually style the text in the message and see if it works? Also: are you on the latest WP and Postie (and Postie set to HTML)? I know that you have likely checked all of these, but it seems odd that to worked for her the first time and not for you. Something must be different.

@chris Lacey and @wayne

I did some more digging and now I actually do think I have the solution: I tried the instructions that I sent to Chris and indeed, I did not get any text. Then I realized what I did yesterday: i had formatted some of the text in my email to be cold and/or underlined. Apparently, doing so forces iOS mail to format the message as HTML. When I did this just now, everything worked. Interestingly, everything also worked when I did this using Photos to send the message.

There is a genius way to make sure that iOS Mail always sends using HTML: add a signature to Mail and make sure that you use some sort of formatting on the signature. I just did that and it now works like a charm: I do not have to remember to format text to make it send HTML. Thanks goes to this web site for this tip:

@chris Lacey: Can you try this? Do exactly what you have been trying, but format some of the text to be bold. I am betting that it will work.

@wayne: Seems to me that in order for Apple Mail to send a message as HTML, you must format some text. Adding a picture alone does not appear to make it an HTML message,

@wayne

I think I have found a solution! You’ll recall that the way I sent the messages was by going into the Photo app, selecting the pictures, then adding the text in the resulting email screen. Well…

I just tried to create the message from within the mail app and not from the photo app. I then tried 6 different settings where I manipulated whether or not I inserted picture, tried to bold/underline the text, and how I configured Postie. Here is what I found:

NoPictures, NoFormat, HTML: Message posted as written
NoPictures, NoFormat, Plain: Message posted as written
NoPictures, Formatted, HTML: Message posted as written
NoPictures, Formatted, Plain: Message posted with text only (no formatting)
Pictures, Formatted, HTML: Message posted as written with inline pictures
Pictures, Formatted, Plain: Message posted without text formatting, but with pictures, although the inline alignment was not correct.

So it seems that if you create the email message from within mail app itself and then insert pictures by pressing and holding where you want the picture, then wait for the formatting bar to pop up and then select INSERT PICTURE OR VIDEO, everything works as it should. But that if you go to Photos app to send mail, it doesn’t work.

Interesting, one of the pictures was rotated funny, but I recall seeing a post about this and a WP fix based on exif data (I need to go find that).

Thanks again, @wayne for the quick reply. As I need to get this blog live by early next week, should I consider looking at another solution (which I really do not want to do) or is there a work around?

I just emailed the same test message that I have been using to the address you provided. And while I sent you one with :start and :end tags, I have also tried it without those tags.

Thank you for that info. Couldn’t you change your plugin so that it uses the full URL of the site, instead of the protocol relative URL?