Posting to your WP blog by email is cool and handy. Using the standard post by email setup isn’t, with the chance of ANYTHING sent to the designated email being automatically posted. Not cool. Here is how I sorted it with gmail….

Create a gmail address you want to use exclusively for posting content on your blog

Set up the filter to only accept email from a designated email address (See here about how to do this) This is truly clever.

Setup the Postie plugin in WordPress

Mail protocol – IMAP-SSL

Use TLS – NO

Port 993

Mail Server – imap.gmail.com

MailuserID – theaddressyoucreated@gmail.com

Mail password – whateveryousetaspassword

Delete mail after posting – YES