Improved Remote Mail Setup
If at first you don’t succeed, remove all attempts that you tried in the first place.
Thankfully, that’s not the way we operate here. After two interesting ways to approach the remote email blogging feature, both of which relied on you setting up a blog-specific email account, scrambling for mail server settings, and trying to recall your password, setting up a remote mail account was hardly quick or easy. With our improved process, setting up a remote mail account to use with Quick Blogcast has never been easier.
Previously, we asked you for your email address, mail server, user name, password, and the default category where blog entries should be posted. Now, we just need to know the email address you want to post from and the category you’d like the posts to go in.
What is it?
Email blogging allows you to send a post to your blog from anyplace you can send email.
Where is it?
To set remote blogging options, from the Manage Blog menu, click Settings, and then click the Email Blogging tab. There are detailed instructions on the page as well as within our Help Section.
Once you’ve set up your remote blogging account, send an email to: yourfullblogaddress@myqbc.mobi
For example:
If you use a full domain: www.blogurl@myqbc.mobi
If you use a sub domain: sub.blogurl@myqbc.mobi
What else do I need to know?
- This feature currently works for only one email address per blog at this time.
- Pictures are not resized presently, so we attempt to show what you send us.
- Not all mail clients preserve the email formatting. So for best results, send us either HTML or Text-only mail.
Sorry this is slightly off-topic:
I drive a lot of traffic to my blog just with main link instead of linking to an article, is there a way to see how many views the main page has had per day?
Greetings,
Off topic is fine. Currently there is not a way to show this within the Blogcast without using a third party stats tracker to do so. This is an omission that we're correcting in our upcoming stats revamp. In fact it's about the first statistic you'll see on entering.
I tried to think of a work around in which you could split out hits to the main page over the individual articles and while I came up with a couple of methods they are impractical for use with only the blogcast account E.g need a separate hosting account and stats tracker to work.
Regards
John
QBC team
I had setup a blog site with remote e-mail for a fmaily info site with the expectation that all family members can send entries. With a single e-mail address, this defeats the purpose of setting this up as I will now have to moderate how entries post. This "new" feature totally disrupts the way I had set this up. Is there plans to get it back to normal so that multiple e-mail addresses can? If it was a personal blog that just I use, it would be great but this is not the case and I had crafted settings to limit who and what can be posted without my having to moderate this site.
Greetings,
This is hopefully a tempory condition as we have it within the roadmap to restore that ability in a future version. There's no way within the current program to revert or workaround that issue other than the creation of a common mail account that your family could access or by using a blogging client such as live writer from Microsoft or Scribefire though both have the problem of coming only from one source / category within the email. The latter issue could be resolved by having your family post within their own category type when using the blogging client but wouldn't work with the email.
Regards
John
Quick Blogcast team
[Defect]
The timestamp on emailed blog entries is 3 hours off. I love this feature, but it's useless if the time is so far off. Can this be fixed to honor the timezone setting on the blog? ie: can you fix it?
[Feature Request]
I'd also second the vote for each author to have the ability to email entries in.
Thank you!