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To view the details one time go to the Postie admin page and click the “Debug” button and the details will be displayed on your screen. See also Get Detailed Postie Output

If Postie isn’t working right and you see “Fatal error: Out of memory…” in your logs it is time to increase how much memory PHP allocates to WordPress. By default 40Mb is allocated. To change your memory open up your…

Postie relies on the built-in WordPress Cron process to fetch emails and turn them into posts. However, WordPress requires that there be traffic to your site in order to run the Cron process. The first check you must do to…

As of version 1.5.5 you can click the “Debug” button to have Postie check for emails and report debugging information to the screen. To always log debug info to a log file You can enable a higher level of logging…

If you can’t get Postie to work and you’ve checked all the other FAQs it is likely that you are experiencing a conflict between Postie and another plugin or your theme. The first thing to try is switching your theme…

bbPress is a forum plugin for WordPress. Since most forums allow you to interact with them via email there are many people looking for this feature in bbPress. Out of the box bbPress does not have the ability to send…

If you ever see the message “Could not update post in the database” when researching why an email didn’t show up here are the things to check:

If you are getting a message in the logs something like: And you are running SELINUX then likely you need to give Apache permission to connect You do this by changing the httpd_can_network_connect variable. The httpd_can_network_connect variable has this documentation:…