email doesn’t take

What happens when you run wp-mail on its own? I wouldn’t spend too much time on this right now as it still needs some tweaking. I have it running, but as reported earlier it is not posting to a category and causing invalid argument errors. This requires going in and manually setting the proper category (which defeats the purpose of blog-by-email anyhoo). It also apparently is not stripping the signature. Give it some time and it will be working.

Okay, it seems you need to run a cron job on the file to activate this function. How do you find out the exact name of the directory to activate. So far when I try it, I get “No such file or directory”
Here is my Cron command:
domain name/www/subdomain name/wp-mail.php

Alvin,
As Beel pointed out, you can access the wp-mail file directly to test things out. It’s best to do it that way until you’re finished troubleshooting and you’re sure that it’s working. Just point your web browser to https://www.path.to/yourwordpress/wp-mail.php. What do you see there?
Once everything’s working, you can set the cron. The command should look like this:
GET https://www.path.to/yourwordpress/wp-mail.php > /dev/null 2<&1

arg! the cron line got wrapped, but that command should be ALL ONE LINE

some progress. So I simply type the url address of the wp-mail.php in my browser and I was able to run the php file. I got a lot of wrong user : password. So I made sure I entered “:” after the password as well. Now it works, so I get the following:
Mission complete, message 9 deleted.
But nothing blogs. I tried editing the script in the wp-mail.php file from default_category to 1, but that doesn’t work either. One time a blog was posted but with an error saying at some line in a file, there was no such thing. But other than that one incident, it successfully reads the email but doesn’t blog.
I’m thinking somehow it is placing it in a non category, but nothing is showing up, even with my admin user level 10.

Open up wp-mail.php in an editor and change line 10
output_debugging_info = 0;
Change it to output_debugging_info = 1;
Send an email to your blogging address, then access wp-mail.php via your browser. You should get a detailed log with errors.

Yes, I did that and apparently it seems okay. I get the result Mission complete, message 9 deleted. But then no blog appears. In other words, no error but also no blog.
Could this be blogging in a category that doesn’t exist?

It’s possible, I guess. You could check out your database in PHPMyAdmin and see if the posts are showing up in there.
Is your server is in a timezone a few hours behind yours? If so, your posts may show up a few hours later, since your post/email will be dated with a later time than the server’s time. However, the posts would show up in the edit section in admin.
Another possibility is that you missed something when you edited the wp-mail file. If you want, I can post a copy of mine for you to try.

Beel,
Email blogging is definitely buggy, but mine is working without errors. Every email entry is posted to the “General” category, but other than that, it’s working fine. In other words, a category IS assigned, but it’s always the “General” category.
Did you try editing the code in wp-mail as suggested in this post? That’s what fixed it for me… but I doubt it will work if you’re using the nightlies. I’m using 1.0.2

Alvin: Doh! I didn’t know that you were using 1.2. If email blogging is an absolute necessity, I would recommend switching back to 1.0.2. It’s flawed in 1.0.2, but at least it’s usable. Otherwise, you’ll probably just have to wait until the developers work out the email blogging bugs in 1.2 ?? The development team for wordpress seems to work VERY fast, so you probably won’t have to wait too long.

Great! ?? Glad you got it working.