Mailhandler

I'm setting up Mailhandler on Drupal 6.  Mailhandler is fundamental to picking up email and creating a blog post.  Main thing about mailhandler is it's always changing, so some things no doubt have changed since now, things like port.  Stay sharp!  Mailhandler is a friendly module.

An important realization is that Drupal often has multiple modules with differences in names only by upper/lower case characters.  This is "Mailhandler".  Not "MailHandler".

To post to your site, you'll be sending sms and mms from phones to an email mailbox, then retrieving those messages with mailhandler. First, create a new mailbox (gmail is quick and easy). Your new mailbox will be known as "youremail@gmail.com". This will be displayed in further references as youremail@gmail.com.  Google Apps is so good.  Look around!  You can setup a single gmail, then dozens of "accessory" email addresses for your site.

Once you have an email address for this use then it's time to configure mailhandler and see if it works.

Go to your site /admin/content/mailhandler/add.  Content Mangement --> Mailhandler Mailboxes, and fill out the mailhandler form:

• email address is youremail@gmail.com
• folder is inbox
• select 'IMAP'
• mailbox domain is imap.gmail.com
• mailbox port is 993
• mailbox username is youremail@gmail.com
• password is yourpassword
• extra commands, /ssl
• mime preference is html (or plain text)
• security is disabled
• Default commands: here you can use mailhandler commands, like this.  Put these into the "box".  More recently, like today, I believe this next manual data entry is obsolete.  It is coming over with the post so I'm going to clear mine.

   language: en
   type: [content type]
   taxonomy: [yourtag]
   promote: 1
   format: 3

• Delete messages after they are processed

[Save Mailbox] Mailhandler provides an initial test: [Test Connection].

This will print successful message at top of form, or error on fail.

Now send email to your [youremail@gmail.com] and Run cron.

Blog post by email provides details for php configuration. Mailhandler requires extensions to PHP.  If you don't have them you may get errors like "Fatal error: Call to undefined function imap_open()"

To test Mailhandler, I sent an email to sms@markcox.net and new site post appears!