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Testing To See If the Cron Job Runs - And it Did, Finally

Fri 06.12.09 - Will PostOffice for MT post this cron job email now that I have the correct cron job command?

Update: Yes, it did, but not with the cron job command that my server support team said would work, but with the one that Movable Type said would work.

Update at 4:48pm: Sorry, it ran a couple of times too many before I deleted the test email out of the inbox.

For two reasons, email photos to this blog is going to be an imperfect way to moblog:
1) If one does not delete or move the email out of the inbox, after the cron job runs, then the PostOffice plugin will post again the next time the cron job runs - at least when using Gmail.
2) One first has to resize the photo in the phone before emailing, otherwise there will be a large photo - both in pixels and kilobytes - that is posted to the blog.

With the G2 Ion / HTC Magic phone, I downloaded PicSay from the Android Market to do the resizing and emailing all in one go, as the PixelPipe Android app did not send the photo resized.

Given that a super-user/moblog addict like me spent many hours over days to set this up, no wonder why regular folks don't want to blog from their phones to a blog that lives on one's own server but prefer instead if they do moblog to a hosted service. gah.

Oh, Lifeblog, Oh Lifeblog, why did Nokia discontinue you? You were such a lovely and perfect moblogging app for Nokia phones...


| | Comments (1) | moleskine to mobile , tech + web dev , writing + blogs

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On June 17, 2009 3:10 PM,
https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawmnKZY6FhS-NusRwhnQbrdaI_RDtPJk4gs Author Profile Page said:

1) In Gmail's POP options, be sure that "when messages are accessed with POP..." that the "archive" or "delete" option is set.
2) Check out the EntryAssets tag. You can use that to resize and display the attached image however you like!

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