blog by email

run b2mail.php to update the blog or setup a cron job to do it

Hmmm…
I keep getting a “wrong login or password” and I notice that when I run b2mail.php, it tries to use the first line of text in the email as the userid.
Also, could someone explain the CRON thingy for me? I have seen it on my CPANEL for my domain, but I have no clue what it is or how it works.
Thank you for your help!
Craig.

OOPS! I *bumped* my head on the wall! ??
Craig.

This is an old thread but I’m having this same problem. I keep getting the “wrong login or password” thingy…
As far as I can tell I’m doing everything as I should. The first line of my email is user:pass and I am using the correct username and password, yet I get the following from wp-mail.php:
——————-
2
Subject: Blog:Test
Content-type: text/plain, boundary:
Raw content:
admin:******
Testing post by email. Hello!
Login: , Pass:
Wrong login or password.
——————-
Password censored for obvious reasons… Judging by the second last line of text in the output from wp-mail.php, it seems as though it’s not detecting my username and password in my email as being the username and password. I mean, it seems to display both login and password as being empty :/ So, anybody know what the problem is here?

wp-mail.php pulls back the emails from the server just fine. The issue is that the $result always comes back empty. Tested the query on the server and it pulls back the appropriate record.
Below is the output plus added the following to wp-mail.php to get some output.
****wp-mail.php code****
if (!$result) {
echo ‘<b>Wrong login or password.</b></div>’;
$post_author = $result->ID;
$user_level = $result->user_level;
echo “
post_author = “,$post_author;
echo “
user_level = “,$user_level,”
“;
continue;
****Screen Output****
1
Subject: blog: test 3
Content-type: text/plain, boundary:
Raw content:
chris:******
This is a test
Login: chris, Pass: ******
SELECT ID, user_level FROM ci_users WHERE user_login=’chris’ AND user_pass=’****** ‘ ORDER BY ID DESC LIMIT 1
Wrong login or password.
post_author =
user_level =
0.057
Please do not say use IMAP… IMAP will not work for the scenario we are configuring.
Thank you!

Is this what I’m supposed to modify in wp-mail.php? I’m not clear on this. What am I supposed to modify exactly? I still have trouble with this. I upgraded to 1.02 and still experience same thing.

You might try my script for blogging by mail, it also includes image support. You can find it here.

i have the same problem. there is an extra space at the end of the password that is farking it all up. do this:
on line 191 wp-mail.php, change:
$user_pass = $blah[1];
to
$user_pass = rtrim($blah[1]);

i tried that… nothing changed. here’s the screen output:
1
Subject: blog: email blog test
Content-type: multipart/alternative, boundary: —-=_NextPart_000_0001_01C415E4.76D39100
Raw content:
Message
this = is an email=20 blogging test
::
Login: Message , Pass:
Wrong login or password.

You have to put the username and pass on the first line of the mail like this:
blogusername:blogpassword:
This is the first line of my post…
[Remember the trailing colon.]
So, if your username is jack and your password is bauer, it would be:
jack:bauer:
This is the first line of my post…
Mick