Comments on: postie

By: faloco

faloco — Sun, 25 May 2008 10:57:08 +0000

Hi Jim, only one question. POstie works great, I post with gmail but can’t put links in the post. Do you know how can I write links? Is there some tag to do it?
Thank you very much

By: langdon

langdon — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 12:21:28 +0000

For Karlja and/or anyone else who is wanting to use imap_open() with GMail, but not using Wordpress:

$mailbox = imap_open(“{pop.gmail.com:995/pop3/ssl/notls}INBOX”, “your@email.com”, “password”);

By: Karlja

Karlja — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 07:23:23 +0000

Hi,
could you post the working imap_open statement that’s actually send to Gmail? (of course without the passwort and the user)

Like this:
{pop.gmail.com:995/service=pop3/ssl/notls/novalidate-cert}INBOX

Thank You.
Karlja

By: Jan

Jan — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 19:49:50 +0000

Hi,
I got a similar problem. I am neither using postie nor wordpress but it would be really helpful if someone could post the working line of code for imap_open.

Right now I get the following error:
Failed with error: Can’t open mailbox {pop.gmail.com:995/service=pop3/ssl/notls/novalidate-cert}INBOX: invalid remote specification

So I think I got the syntax right, but I am not quite sure, which options I have to turn on or off.
ssl = on!
notls? tls?
novalidate-cert? validate-cert?
norsh?
… and so on.

Could someone please post the working imap_open syntax. Thank you!

bye
Jan

PS: I am using PHP5.0.4 on a Linux Redhat System.

By: ZappoMan

ZappoMan — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 03:04:10 +0000

If you are having problems with getting postie to work with gmail, and you are using a Win32 server machine, your problem may be related to these PHP bugs…

http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=29036
http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=36496

Apparently php_imap.dll doesn’t work with php_openssl.dll on Win32.

The bug appears to have been fixed in PHP builds after Feb. 19, 2007.

By: Jonathan Lumb

Jonathan Lumb — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 10:13:19 +0000

Another slight fix for those people trying to get Postie to work with Google Apps for Domains or Gmail is available on my website. Just a little code change – a syntax problem.

http://www.sprayfly.com

Hope this helps.
Jono

By: Ed

Ed — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 08:43:16 +0000

This didn’t seem to work for me:(
Still get this error

Warning: imap_open() [function.imap-open]: Couldn’t open stream {pop.gmail.com:995/service=pop3/ssl/notls/novalidate-cert}INBOX in /homepages/9/d188817997/htdocs/phooblog/wp-content/plugins/postie/postieIMAP.php on line 72
Unable to connect. The server said – Can’t open mailbox {pop.gmail.com:995/service=pop3/ssl/notls/novalidate-cert}INBOX: invalid remote specification
Try putting in your full email address as a userid and try again.

Cheers if you can help

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By: emag

emag — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 03:23:40 +0000

Jim:

A *big* thank you for this. I was getting close to giving up in disgust, getting postie to work with courier-imap(-ssl) on my mail server. I was getting the same error, and yet could login manually, so I knew that the daemon was working. Your code fixes allow me to login just fine, at least with imap (I haven’t tried imaps yet).

Again, thanks!

By: Pardis

Pardis — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 00:48:59 +0000

So in case the Gmail thing never works out, I set up a Yahoo account, setup POP access, confirmed POP access via Outlook Express, and then changed the settings in Configure Postie, but now I get this:

Warning: fsockopen(): unable to connect to pop.mail.yahoo.ca:110 in xxxxx/wordpress/wp-includes/class-pop3.php on line 87
Unable to connect. The server said – POP3 connect: Error [110] [Connection timed out]
Try putting in your full email address as a userid and try again.

I tried my full e-mail address and that doesn’t work, either.