Email and Posterous, again
If you’ve read here before, you know I like fiddling. Among other things, I like to send postcards from the sl client to this hosted Wordpress blog. It’s possible to email articles, even sl postcards with their unique format, to a blog at wordpress.com these days (the ability has only recently become available), and they arrive relatively unmolested, which is impressive. But posting to an externally hosted installation requires configuring plugins to the wordpress install which can grab and successfully decode email. I’ve tried several over the last two years. None works reliably. If it’s possible on a wordpress.com blog, you’d think it was possible on an externally hosted one, but – unless I’m missing something obvious – it’s not.
The alternative I’ve used to get around this problem is ‘Posterous‘. It makes sending postcards from the sl client to a Wordpress blog much easier, but it’s not without its own issues. For one thing, it forwards a link to any images in the posting, rather than the image itself – which is ok, unless you ever edit or delete the Posterous blog. The second thing which annoys me is that every sl postcard comes with a section beneath the main image, which contains a slurl and the sl logo – and it’s a nuisance to have to manually edit these out if you don’t want the boring repetition.
Now, I’ve discovered that if you end the text portion of the postcard with ‘#end ‘ (ignoring my quote marks), Posterous conveniently dumps everything that follow – which means the slurl and the logo aren’t passed on to the blog.
Sometimes it’s useful to include the location, other times it’s not, but it’s good to have the option.
All I need now is to find a way to copy the image itself over, rather than just the link.