The postie email
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Set Mail Password to the password you created for this email address. Set Mail Userid to your full email address If not you will need to check with your email provider. The following settings are correct assuming you are using Gmail.
#The postie email how to
Like any assistant, Postie needs to know how to log into the email account you just set up so it can get the emails you send.Ĭlick on the Postie menu to bring up the configuration screen.Īt first we are only going to concern ourselves with the first 6 settings. You can tell if Postie is installed and activated by looking for the Postie option on the left hand menu under Settings. Postie is now installed and ready to be configured.The resulting installation screen will list the installation as successful or note any problems during the install.Type “postie” in Search Plugins box and press the enter key.
#The postie email install
Log into your WordPress and install Postie if you haven’t already. Lastly at the bottom of the screen click the button “Save Changes” Now Gmail is ready to have Postie log in and check for email from you. Look about halfway down for the section titled “IMAP Access” and click the radio button (little circle) in front of “Enable IMAP” Click on it and choose “settings”Īcross the top there is a list of tabs. Log into your assistant’s account ( ) and in the upper left there is a “gear” menu. Just like a good assistant would do! First: Configure Gmailīefore we can configure Postie there are a couple of things we need to tell Gmail since Postie is not actually a real person it can’t log into Gmail in the normal way you and I would. Note that Postie knows who is allowed to post on your WordPress so you don’t have to worry about people sending you spam and having it show up on your site. Pick something easy to remember such as your site name. The easiest way to do this is to set up a free email account with Gmail. The first thing your assistant needs is an email address for you to send your content to. You send your assistant an email and they take care of all the details of getting your content into your WordPress. Think of Postie as your personal WordPress assistant. Postie eliminates the need to log into your WordPress to create a post, you can just send an email instead. Postie allows you to create a post by sending an email to a special email address.