Posts set to Uncategorized

How are you specifying the category in your email?

We’re not. I have the plugin set up to specify the category. It has worked perfectly until the last few days.

OK, so the default Postie category is not taking effect. Is that correct?

Yes, you are correct.

I should clarify: The posts have NO category assigned. I have a category called Uncategorized as well, which I created to see if Postie would chose it.

It does not and posts created by Postie have no category assigned at all.

Hmm. Just to confirm you are using Postie 1.4.32 and WP 3.4.2?

Yes. And I just deleted the postie folder in the WP content directory and replaced it with a fresh copy but it is still malfunctioning.

Please turn on debug logging as described here: https://postieplugin.com/enabling-debug-output/

Then look for a line like:
Postie: Category: 1
and let me know what you find.

Postie: Category: 54

I enabled debug, processed a message and shut debug off. Just to check, the created post was still without a category.

How much of it would you like me to send and where?

you can send the log to [email protected]

sent, thank you.

OK, Postie thinks the default category is 596 – does that make sense?

It is then changing the category to 54. I suspect this is because category 54 starts with “re”

Remember that Postie will look in the subject line for anything before the colon (:) as a category and it will try to do partial matches. I suspect you have a category called “repeat” or something like that.

Category 596 is the category I want it to go to.

I have no category that starts with “re”

Let me do some looking.

Thanks for the help.

Ok, here is what is happening –

I have Postie set up to pick up and email from an address that is part of an Google Group email list server.

Some of the emails got prefixed “Re:” in the prefix during replies. It looks like when that happened any subsequent email replies using that subject (with the RE: prefix) got marked with no category.

Is there any way of getting around this happening?

I think what is happening is that Postie is not restricting it’s lookup to the category taxonomy and finding something that is termid 54, but since it isn’t a category it doesn’t display correctly.

I can fix it so it only looks at categories, but that will break some other functionality. I’ll have to think about how to do this right.