Post by Email

Mena

New Feature: Post by Email. Create a post on your automad website by sending a message with Subject, Body, and Image, to a dedicated destination (Blogger has this feature and its fantastic).

mad

Mena Hi, thanks for the input. I understand that this is very useful. It is also very much depending on the infrastructure in the back. Platforms like Blogger can afford to have such a mail processor running somewhere. I can imagine that it doesn't necessarily have to be a feature that is implemented in Automad. It can also be a stand-alone application that writes content when receiving a mail.

Mena

mad Which means that someone can write it as an Automad package? How hard that will be?

gingerbeardman

This feature depends on your hosting provider setup, it is completely outside of Automad.

Here's a guide about how something like this could be configured:
https://harrybailey.com/2009/02/send-or-pipe-an-email-to-a-php-script/

flow: email triggers php script which would write the contents of the email to a new file in the Automad pages folder.

Searching on the hosting company I use, Dreamhost (I am not recommending them), reveals this script that is similar enough I could modify it to do this sort of email to Automad thing:
https://help.dreamhost.com/hc/en-us/articles/360000484412-How-to-create-a-script-that-sends-you-rejected-emails

It would be very difficult to do as a plugin as each person hosting setup is different. With Blogger they can do it because they control their own server and they they do it once for everybody.