About

Wayne Allen has been the maintainer since November 2012.

Postie was originally developed by John Blade followed by Dirk Elmendork then Rob Felty.

As far as I can tell there once was a guy named John Blade. He took some of the original wp-mail.php code and started hacking away on it. He actually got pretty far. About the time I discovered WordPress and his little hack – called WP-Mail at the time – he went on a vacation or something. There were some problems with the script, and it was missing some features I wanted. I hacked away at it and got it into a place where it did what I wanted. I started posting about it since I figured other people might want the features.

— Dirk Elmendork

A short history

June 2004 – First public release (WP-Mail) by John Blade

August 2004 0.2 released

September 2004 0.3 released

January 2005 0.311 released

March 2005 0.312 released

April 2005 0.312.2 released as “Postie”, now maintained by Dirk Elmendork

July 2008 1.1.2 released, now maintained by Robert Felty

April 2009 1.2 released

August 2009 1.3 released

April 2010 1.4 released

November 2012 1.4.5 released, now maintained by Wayne Allen

April 2013 1.5 released

September 2014 1.6 released

July 2015 1.7 released

October 2016 1.8 released

June 2017 1.9 released

IMHO, while travelling, I believe, Postie is the best option for WordPress blog so far. WordPress apps on any mobile platform do not work well, plus emails work best on bad connections which is always the case.

Vladimir Postie

I love using Postie to post via email. Makes things so much easier

Anthony Postie

This solution is perfect since my client – is never on a desktop but is always on his smart phone – even while on the boat. He needed an easy way to post the whale sightings of the day. I tried setting him up with the mobile version of wordpress to make posts but he got very frustrated. Looks like having him simply email from his phone instead will work great – Thanks for building it.!

Matt Postie