Emailing Content to your site
Thursday, November 24th, 2005

Heres another video cast (very amateur right now - I should prepare and script them in future!)

File is here - 19MB zipped

I will have a new template tommorrow (I have fixed the bug where you cannot send an attachment with the content)

Feedback welcome

Location: Leicester, UK

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Created 25/11/2005 06:14:11 by Eric Mack
(Eric Mack http://www.ericmackonline.com)

Awesome work, Steve. I enjoyed the vidcast. I don't think you need to script these - I'd rather see you get more of these out to help us better understand the flexibility of DominoBlog. Thanks for your efforts.

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Created 25/11/2005 06:16:18 by Eric Mack
(Eric Mack http://www.ericmackonline.com)

Steve, I see in the video clip, that you can include attachments - that makes mobile blogging (i.e. from a TREO 650) a possibility. Is there any way to avoid having to create the HTML for the image to appear? What about an option to allow attached images to simply appear at the bottom of the post?

Is anyone video blogging with DominoBlog yet?

Just curious.

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Created 25/11/2005 09:08:50 by Mike Werner
(Mike Werner http://news.motorbiker.org/)

Cool !! How do you managed the password and categories. Do you need to supply them inside your message or subject line when emailing ??

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Created 25/11/2005 10:31:37 by Sander Zwart
( http://www.quivive.net)

Hi mike,

I wrote a response a few days ago. When you send an e-mail to the site at the following code at the top of your message

$DXPASS$password_configured_in_config_doc$DX

Steve,

did you read my response about an end of message tag to avoid message disclaimers to be published on the website?


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Created 25/11/2005 11:58:42 by Steve Castledine
(Steve Castledine http://www.stevecastledine.com)

Eric I will try and think of a method to auto include attached images - but it does start to get messy (ie multi level decisions - and what if one user wants to do it one way - and another user a different way) - whereas a bit of html puts the image exactly where you want it

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Created 25/11/2005 11:59:33 by Steve Castledine
(Steve Castledine http://www.stevecastledine.com)

Sander

In the next release (this evening I hope) there is a $DXEND$ available

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Created 25/11/2005 12:15:04 by Sander Zwart
( http://www.quivive.net)

You are the best :-)


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Created 25/11/2005 12:17:02 by Steve Castledine
(Steve Castledine http://www.stevecastledine.com)

Mike password can be set in the configuration document (video shows where).

You can also turn on/off the ability to receive embedded category information - or force a category filing

Categories and password are embedded in content like:

$DXPASS$password$DXPASS$

$DXCAT1$category$DXCAT1$

$DXCAT2$category2$DXCAT2$ etc

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Created 25/11/2005 13:58:55 by Mike Werner
(Mike Werner http://news.motorbiker.org/)

Sander, Steve,

Thanks. That's easy enough. Last question, if you've got two templates running at the same time, can they both access the same mail-in database ??

Meaning, if I've got a personal blog AND my news site running, I'd guess by provided two different passwords in the config document, I should be able to supply blogs to whateverone I want as long as I provide the respective password ???

True ??

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Created 25/11/2005 14:19:39 by Steve Castledine
(Steve Castledine http://www.stevecastledine.com)

2 Databases = 2 mail in database records.

Each mail in database record would need a unique email address (so 2 different addresses).

Each database has its own configuration document - so both databases can have different passwords - or could have the same.

Is that what you meant?

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Created 25/11/2005 14:26:09 by Mike Werner
(Mike Werner http://news.motorbiker.org/)

No, I thought 2 databases, 1 mail in database.

It's not important, just trying to save a few pennies here for DDN's charges.. ;-)

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Created 25/11/2005 14:31:41 by Ben Rose
(Ben Rose http://www.jaffacake.net)

You want some domino hosting, just let me know :O)

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Created 25/11/2005 15:14:30 by Steve Castledine
(Steve Castledine http://www.stevecastledine.com)

Each mail in database record is almost like a person document - its just an indicator to match an email address to a database.

Therefore two records definately required.

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Created 04/12/2005 11:37:00 by Mike Werner
(Mike Werner http://news.motorbiker.org/)

Steve

Where does one define the name and location of the mail in database ??? Looked everywhere, but can't find it in the config.

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Created 06/12/2005 11:30:24 by Mike Werner
(Mike Werner http://news.motorbiker.org/)

OK, am a bit slow.... the blog database is the actual mailin !! ;-)

Cool !!

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Created 02/08/2006 13:14:33 by Harm Bomers
(Harm Bomers http://attachments not added)

Hi Steve,

I' am working with the latest version of Dominoblog and I have tried to add some content to our intranet by e-mail.

Everything is working except attachments.

Do you have any idea what is going wrong. Is it a server setting? The format preference for outgoing/incoming mail?

Regards

Harm Bomers

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