This is caused by one of 2 things.
You can set the “Notify on Error” setting to get a detailed message about what is going wrong.
For 1 make sure the email address in the WordPress user matches the “from” email address you are sending from.
For 2 make sure the user has the appropriate permissions that match with “Roles That Can Post”
Some SMS providers supply their own not so useful subjects when going through a SMS to email gateway. You can provide your own subject in the message body by including it on the first line surrounded by the hash symbol (#). Note that you must have “Preferred Text Type” set to “plain” to have any chance of this working.
#my subject# The rest of my message
The subject must be on the very first line and the # character must be the first character in the message (no blank lines, spaces or html). You must also set the “Allow Subject In Mail” setting to “Yes”
It is possible to place images in certain places when using plain text emails by using the #img# directive in your mail text.
Example
Here is a sample plain text email. #img1# With an image displayed in the middle of the text.
This will generate a post with the first attached image between the two paragraphs.
The number following #img directs Postie as to which image it should use. You do not have to use them in order. I.e. you can have #img3# before #img1# in your email.
Additionally you can specify a caption like so:
Here is a sample plain text email. #img1 caption='pretty kitty'# With an image displayed in the middle of the text.
Note you can only use the #img# feature if your “Preferred Text Type” is set to “plain”
You can override the default tags for a post in the email.
Usage (in the message body):
tags: <tag1>[, <tag2>][, <tagN>]
Example
tags: cats, funny
There are 3 different ways to specify categories in your email and they all involve the subject line.
Note the category must already be set up, Postie will not create new categories.
(although there is an AddOn that will do this now – Create Categories)
The first way is to put a category name (or partial name) or a category id then a colon (:) then the actual subject.
Usage (in the subject line):
<category name>: Real subject <category id>: Real subject <partial category name>: Real subject
The second and third ways are very similar and allow you to specify multiple categories. Enclose the category name (or partial name) or id in square brackets ([]) or between dashes (-).
Examples
[category1] [19] Real subject [1] [2] [10] Real subject [cat] Real subject -category1- -19- Real subject -1- -2- -10- Real subject -cat- Real subject
If you don’t want to make use of partial matches you can turn off the “Match short category” setting.
This technique also works with custom taxonomies. You may have to enable the “Force User Login” setting depending on how the taxonomies were set up.
If you are trying to also specify the post type/format you need to do that first, like so:
myposttype//[mycategory] my subject
You can learn more about specifying post type and post format.
Set all of the following settings to “No”
You can specify the post format by including it as the first part of the email subject followed by forward slashes (//).
Example (in the subject line)
aside//real subject
The post title would be “real subject” and the post format will be “aside”.
You can specify the post type by including it as the first part of the email subject followed by forward slashes (//).
Example (in the subject line)
customtype//real subject
The post title would be “real subject” and the post type will be “customtype”. This assumes you have a plugin or theme that added a custom post type called “customtype”.
You can include a custom excerpt of an e-mail by putting it between :excerptstart and :excerptend
Example
:excerptstart This is my excerpt text. :excerptend This is the main body of my post.
It is possible to include images in the excerpt even if you are using plain text emails. Wherever you want the first image insert the text “#eming1#” the second image “#eming2#” and so on. The images are numbered in the order they were attached to the email.
Example
:excerptstart This is my excerpt text. An image will go here #eming1# :excerptend This is the main body of my post.
You can override the default comment control for the message.
Usage (in the message body):
comments: 0 | 1 | 2
0 means comments closed
1 means comments open
2 means comments from registered users only
Example
comments: 1
Posts can be delayed. You can add days, hours and/or minutes to the email date to delay the publishing of a post.
Usage (in the message body):
delay: [0-99d][0-99h][0-99m]
Example
This will delay 1 day delay: 1d This will delay 1 hour delay: 1h This will delay 1 day, 2 hours and 4 minutes delay: 1d2h4m