Postie

I’ve been using Postie for some time now, but only just felt the need to post something about it. I’ll admit, I don’t use it much, but when I do, I really appreciate it. It’s one of the neatest plugins for Wordpress, adding just a little extra functionality to your ability to post an entry to your blog by email. I’ve made a couple of small hacks to the code, so that it will read an mbox file (filtered by procmail), which means that as soon as a post is emailed, it has been posted to my blog (no waiting for cron to fetch the mail).

The main reason for this post is that there is a small bug in the code which prevents it from working with Wordpress 2.1 . Here is the fix:
function TestWPVersion() {
if (substr(get_bloginfo('version'),0,1) == 2) {
return true;
}
return false;
}

If anyone is interested in how to get Postie to work with an mbox file, just add a message below.