Wordpress Blog email account

[servanthood marketer]

I've set up an account to email blogs into WP but I don't understand how to make it pop3 so that WP actually gets the email.

Anyone have any ideas?

Laran

[charlesgan]

wordpress get email

what you mean by that? wordpress will email inform you on new posting etc.
email will be deliver to you as administrator.

but, i dont think wordpress can receive email... in the vice versa way.

[felgall]

I've set up an account to email blogs into WP but I don't understand how to make it pop3 so that WP actually gets the email.

Anyone have any ideas?

Laran

Any email account that actually exists on your BlueHost hosting has POP3 access. All you need to do to set it up to work with WordPress is to go to the Settings/Writing page in the Admin area and specify the same mailserver, login name, and password as you would need to enter into a regular email program in order to access the email account through POP3.

So if your secret post on Wordpress email account is called secretword@example.com then you'd enter that address as the login name and mail.example.com as the server.

It should be really easy to test if you have it set up correctly since any emails sent to that secret email account should show up immediately as blog entries on your WordPress blog.

[servanthood marketer]

Any email account that actually exists on your BlueHost hosting has POP3 access. All you need to do to set it up to work with WordPress is to go to the Settings/Writing page in the Admin area and specify the same mailserver, login name, and password as you would need to enter into a regular email program in order to access the email account through POP3.

So if your secret post on Wordpress email account is called secretword@example.com then you'd enter that address as the login name and mail.example.com as the server.

It should be really easy to test if you have it set up correctly since any emails sent to that secret email account should show up immediately as blog entries on your WordPress blog.

Thanks for the reply..it actually isn't working that way for some reason. The default port is 110, I don't see any information on bluehost that says to change the incoming port. Not really sure where to go from here but there are quite a few posts on WP that talk about this...none of them have worked so far.

Laran

[owencutajar]

Hi Laran,

110 is the standard port for POP3, so you should need to change anything. When you send an email to the account you're sending, do you actually see it appear in the "Received Email" list for that message box? If not, the account may be having problems receiving mail.

If it is appearing, then WordPress might be having problems picking up the email.

Hope this helps

Owen

[pbravin]

wordpress has a secret code string for posting to its blog vias email--since some of them have uppercase letters, the bluehost email registration rejects it as it doesnt allow email user names with uppercase letters

[Early Out]

Email usernames are not case-sensitive on any system (not just BH). Only passwords are.

SOMEONE@example.com, Someone@example.com, and someone@example.com are all absolutely identical per Internet standards.