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  • Posted by pseudowho 1 year ago. There are 16 posts. The latest reply is from nickgrossman.

  1. pseudowho
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #

    Hi. I've been struggling with getting Postie to work on my blog (WP 2.9.2 & Postie 1.3.4).

    What happens was, no matter which template I select under Postie settings, it only would post as a simple link to the file. Doesn't matter if I select, say the Google Player for an audio, it comes out as a plain link to the file in my uploads folder.

    If I edit the custom template in the Postie settings, I can add text in before the file is embedded, but the file still shows as a link.

    This happened with video and audio attachments. Images would show inline.

    What I ended up doing was editing the Postie templates directly through Edit Plugins so the simple_link string contained the code I wanted.

    As far as I can tell, it was insisting on using the string in postie-functions.php, rather than drawing from one of the files like audio_templates.php, since editing audio_templates.php didn't fix the problem.

    So I have a workaround, but ideally the problem would be fixed so others don't run into it. Hopefully you know what the source of the problem is or this post helps you to figure it out.

    Let me know if you have questions about my settings or anything that might help you troubleshoot it. a

  2. robfelty
    Key Master
    Posted 1 year ago #

    Try the development version.

  3. Dennis
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #

    hey,

    I have the same problem in my blog (WP 2.9.2 & postie 1.3.4).
    Downloading the development version doesn't fixe the problem. Publishing images work great, but audio and video files are shown still as a link with icon. :(

  4. pseudowho
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #

    Just FYI, Postie (both the current regular version and the dev) is no longer doing anything. I was doing what I thought was going to be a final test before making my new blog public, but no such luck.

    I sent a test post which arrived at the destination email account (verified after the fact). Postie seems to check the account successfully, but takes no further action.

    If I run it manually, I get the following:

    This is the postie plugin
    time:1267516776
    Revision: 164029
    Last Changed Date: 2009-10-16 11:19:14 -0400 (Fri, 16 Oct 2009)

    Connecting to mail.server.com:110 (pop3))

    ...and nothing else. No new post, no indication it's done anything aside from contacting the host.

    This happened with the released version, then I tried installing the dev version and got the exact same results.

    Any ideas?

  5. steveg
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #

    I have the same issue. Video is ignoring the settings and coming through as an attachment. I went to install the development version but it doesn't seem to have the Cronless Postie version in it. Suggestions for how I can add Cronless Postie?

    Thanks!

  6. steveg
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #

    OK - an addendum to my last post. I removed the latest version of Postie and installed the dev version. After activating it, it wasn't rendering right (seeing code that should obviously be being executed not spit out as text). Additionally, it seemed to carry over data from the last install (like my custom video treatment). I then deleted the dev instance I installed, removed all the data from the database and reinstalled. I tried moving the cronless postie file from the other version into the dev version, but when activating, it would only let me activate one. So, removed both again and reinstalled the dev version just to see if it will render correctly. Nope. I see this code everywhere:

    ray ( [admin_username] => admin [prefer_text_type] => html [default_title] => Live From The Field [input_protocol] => pop3 [image_placeholder] => #img%# [images_append] => 1 [allow_subject_in_mail] => 1

    Ack! I can't seem to wipe the original install clean either, despite removing the table wp_postie_config I'm still seeing my custom video instance. Weird.

    Anyway, I've spent way too much time fighting this. I'm going to go drink and probably cry.

  7. robfelty
    Key Master
    Posted 1 year ago #

    Steve,

    Sorry for leaving in that debugging info. You can ignore that. I am merging cronless postie into postie to make it simpler. See the readme.txt file in the development version for more info about that (under installation instructions).

    I am also in the process of changing option handling to default wordpress stuff, so it now resides in the wp_options table.

    Rob

  8. steveg
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #

    Hey Rob - so i got the cronjob working instead of using cronless. So the dev instance is installed and running. However, when I send a message with a video attached, the post comes through, but there is no video, not even as an attachment like before.

    So I guess this begs the question: does this actually work for video? In other words, am I wasting my time trying to get this set up to display a video other than as an attachment? I don't mean to sound snarky, I know this a free product, I just don't want to waste any more time if what I am trying to do isn't possible.

    Thanks.

  9. robfelty
    Key Master
    Posted 1 year ago #

    Steve,

    It definitely works. Maybe you don't have the type of video listed in the video types?
    See:
    http://robfelty/wptesting/?p=9913

    Here are the videotypes I have:
    mp4, mpeg4, 3gp, 3gpp, 3gpp2, 3gp2, mov, mpeg

  10. louiechristiehub
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #

    I've got the same issue.

    I'm using:

    Wordpress MU 2.9.2
    Postie Version 1.3.4

  11. robfelty
    Key Master
    Posted 1 year ago #

    Louie,

    Please try the development version.

    Rob

  12. vinhdizzo
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #

    I added 'mpeg' into the list of audio in postie's admin and this now works for mp3 files.

  13. metuzuner
    Member
    Posted 11 months ago #

    I'm having the same issue.

    Video files (correct file types are defined in the postie config) still show up as regular attachments. Audio files on the other hand work. Tried both 1.4.2 and dev version (which I think is not different than 1.4.2...)

    WP ver: 3.1

    By the way, the google reader code should be changed to include 3523697345 otherwise it wont work.

  14. metuzuner
    Member
    Posted 11 months ago #

    Figured it half-way out:

    Looks like Postie does not look at the file extension, but rather the mime type of the file in order to recognize the file. So, instead of putting "mov" in "File types" field under Video and Audio options, put "quicktime", which is the mime type (video/quicktime) for mov videos.

    For wmv files you should put "x-ms-wmv" instead of just "wmv", since wmv video's mime type is video/x-ms-wmv.

    This workaround, however, does not work for video files with mime types that do NOT begin with "video/", such as flv videos whose mime type is "application/octet-stream". Because postie is looking for "video/" by default, anything that has an "application/" mime would not work.

    I hope this helps.

    metuzuner

  15. nickgrossman
    Member
    Posted 8 months ago #

    I've been running into this problem myself, and here's the fix I found:

    It seems that the problem has to do with the mime type. For instance, .m4a files are the x-m4a mime type. So, in your video & audio settings, you'll need to make sure that the exact file types match up.

    To tell what postie thinks the file type is, run postie by hand (from /options-general.php?page=postie/postie.php). Click "run postie", and after postie checks your email, it will output some details about what it processed. You'll see a section like this:

    primary= multipart, secondary = mixed
primary= text, secondary = plain
primary= audio, secondary = x-m4a
primary= text, secondary = plain

    Note, in this example, the line primary= audio, secondary = x-m4a. In this case, I had listed "m4a" as an allowed file type, not "x-m4a". Adding x-m4a fixed it.

    Hope this is helpful.

  16. nickgrossman
    Member
    Posted 8 months ago #

    Ah, now I see the previous poster had listed the same fix.

    @Rob, it would be great to update the postie settings page to better reflect this distinction.

    Thanks!

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