FAQ Category Usage

Postie has a setting called “Tag Of Message Start” which allows you to specify some text that indicates the start of the post. This is useful when the email is coming from a mailing list and you want to automatically…

Posts can have their status set to draft, publish, pending, future or private. This will override the Default Post Status set in the settings screen. Usage (in the message body): status: [draft | publish | pending | private | future]…

Postie has a setting called “Tag Of Message End” which allows you to optionally specify some text that indicates the end of the post. This is useful when the email is coming from a mailing list and you want to…

By default Postie will use the date of the email as the post publish date. You can override the date in the email. You can provide an exact date with optional time or a relative date. Usage (in the message…

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…

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

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. Images in excerpts It is possible to include…

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…

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…

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…