V.1.8.9 for Joomla 3.0 is released. Version for Joomla 3.0 is updated today to work with latest php versions.

Only joomla 3.0 version is updated.

Hi,

I have yesterday installed Post By E-mail. This is working perfect. I can send E-Mails directly to the News section of my Joomla Website. This is working perfect by Google Mail and by the iPad. Text and also images are displayed correct.
But if I use my Samsung Galaxy S2 only the Text will be diesplayed. The image will be ignored. Any idea what I have to do?

I run version 1.7.8 on Joomla 2.5.11.

Kind regards
Chrigu

New versions of post by email are released.

1.8.9 for joomla 3+
1.8.0 for joomla 2.5

Changes are in kunena support. Now is possible to have moderated categories. Imported with PBM topics and messages will wait approval. It has minor improvement in parsing email subject.

Fixed bug:
Create topic in first category when target category is not found.
------ Now topic won't be created at all. ------


Example:

You have category named "Cat" and topic named "Black"

1. If category is moderated new topics and messages will wait approval. (in previous version will be published directly, without moderation)
2. If email subject is "Dog", when you try to import, will give an error because category "Dog" do not exists. (in previous version will be created topic "dog" in first category)
3. If email subject is "Orange (Cat)" will be created topic named "Orange" in category "Cat"
4. If email subject is "Re: Black (Cat)" will be posted new message in category "Cat" topic "Black" with subject "Re: Black"
5. If email subject is "Black (Cat)" will be posted new message in category "Cat" topic "Black" with subject "Re: Black"

Hi Pavel,

the component is really great and thanks a lot for it.

There is just one feature, that I am missing a lot:
A line like that for the answers:

<----- Write above that line to answer the posting ----->

Whatever is written in that line, that´s not important.
The important thing (for me) is, that I won´t like to have the complete mail in the forum. Most users quote the complete text of the answered email, becuase Outlook and others do it automatically. This is not a problem in eMails, but if that happens in the forum it will get a problem.

In addition to that, many users add footer-linkes in their eMails, sometimes eMail-Adresses appear in answers, that should not get posted in the forum and stuff like that.

By adding a line like the above one and have the funcion, that only the text ABOVE the line is posted in the forum, this would make it much more conveniant.

Do you see a chance for that?

All the best, Julian!

Post by Email can work with parsers. We have one old example for linkedin in package (is non-working, linkedin change their emails content). Every php programmer or company as developer can make parser - for outlook or for some website like emails received from facebook for example.

3D Web Design to make parsers soon? There is no chance to make some parser soon, we have many prepaid orders for custom development and we will work only on these orders in next 1-2 months.

Unfortunately I am not a php-programmer, so I guess I pass this topic for the moment.

But I have another question:
ARe there any problems with the cron?

Since four days I try to get the cron working. But even if I call the URL directly, the eMails are not taken into the forum.
The cron-command I use in the moment is:



or



Nothing happens. Even If I directly open the url

nothing happens.

But When I click on "Import" in the backend, everything works.
Any Idea?

All the best, Julian!

Julian, is possible to have some php error. Is your test with activated error reporting on maximum?

Now I made a test with the Setting "Maximum".
But nothing. It doesn´t work, and there are no Error-Messages.

We can't help you without error. Test manual first.

What do you mean with "Test manual"?
I tested it manual: When I call the php directly, there is no error-message. It´s just a blank screen.

So I´ve put two echo inside with the text "Hello world".
One on line 10, one on the bottom.
When I call the php manualy, the first echo is shown on the page, the last isn´t.

Meaning to me:
When the script is called, it works. But I don´t know on which line it breaks.
So I tested some more:
Even when I place an echo after the first line of code, it is not shown anymore in the output.

What does this line mean:


I am not a coder, but as far as I try to understand, everything after this line is ignored.

All the best, Julian!

The only one way to find problem is access to your website - joomla admin login and ftp login data. If you want, send data to our email. Email must be sent from email used in your order.

I´ve just sent it to you!

Today one user wanted to add many possible mime types. In order to do so, he needed to increase limit of input field in configuration.

To increase length of mime types field follow steps below.

1. Open File /administrator/components/com_post_by_email/views/item/tmpl/default.php"
2. Find (around line 164)
id="params_accepted_mime_types" size="50" maxlength="160"
3. Replace with
id="params_accepted_mime_types" size="50"

Update is available for download!
For Joomla 3.x version is 1.9.1 (important update for compatibility with php 5.3 and joomla 3.x)
For joomla 2.5.x version is 1.8.1

1.9.1 changes
1. Fixed minor bugs under joomla 3.2
2. Modified declarations of few methods for compatibility with joomla 3.2 declarations
3. Fixed passing by reference for compatibility with php 5.3+

1.8.1 changes
1. Modified declarations of few methods for compatibility with joomla 2.5 declarations
2. Fixed passing by reference for compatibility with php 5.3+

Note:
update for joomla 2.5 is not important because joomla itself violates php 5.3 recommendations and standarts
update for joomla 3.x is recommended since joomla 3.x must run on php 5.3 at least

The Extension is working great, I have 2 issues though.

First is one you can help by directing me to the relevant php file... I have a couple auto-posts from newsletters that use <style> tag, this does not appear to be part of html tags which are stripped by PostbyEmail function so can you direct me to the appropriate file for modification (and some direction if it isn't straight forward).

Second is the Copy function for duplicating different PostbyEmail profiles is not accurately copying tables, I haven't downloaded 1.9.1 or 1.8.1 yet so if you've already fixed this bug then Thank you in advance.

Thanks so much for a great Component, it has saved my clients and I countless hours!
(Do you have any custom parsers you've created that could be pared down for a general template us developers could build off of?I usually just need a start point)

Hello!

About First
Open file "/administrator/components/com_post_by_email/helpers/helper.php"

Around Line 180 search for:



About Second
Soon will be available update in whom this bug is fixed! This was fixed in version for Joomla 3.x
New version will be 1.8.2 and will be released after about one hour.

New updates are available for both versions!

For Joomla 2.5 version is 1.8.2
For Joomla 3.x version is 1.9.2

What's New?
Fixed Bug in both versions.
Bug was that K2 imports only one email (this function was working previous k2 versions, tested before 2-3 months... but k2 is updated again, so, now import in K2 work well in latest K2 version also)

Fixed bug in j2.5 version.
Copy functionality is now working!

This update is highly recommended for users that use K2!

I am having an issue where email subjects with a single quote ’

It will not transfer the rest of the subject into the title of article, so just ends at the single quote point for example turning
"It’s time!" into "It"

This is only seems to happen with ’ character as opposed to '
I cant tell you what the character code of the problem single quote is but I have noticed the difference in conversion of subject to title, hopefully we can have the title conversion handle this problem character.

For my own reference are the custom parsing scripts run before creating article title or after?

Subject is treated in different ways based on component in to whom emails are imported.
This is called everywhere to clean extra white space.

For com content they are no other filters. Just joomla database "quote".
ASCII grave accent ( ` ) or "backtick" is used to escape MySQL reserved words.

Hello,

I'm interested by the Post by email extension for Joomla.
But as there is no trial version I'm wondering how I can make it work with my config.
Basically, I'm hosted on a shared server where I don't have access to cPanel and don't have the possibility to add a cron job.
I know I can log in as administrator and run manually the rules, but is there a way to automate this rule either by running a url without authentication or using the XTCronjob extension for example ?
Thanks in adance for your quick reply
Almer Biner