Article : Adding Content To Site Via Email

Wouldn't it be great if adding articles and images to your website was as easy as sending an email. It can be, here is a quick tutorial on how to add this functionality to your site.

Firstly you need to setup a unique email account that the site can use eg website @ YourDomain .com.

Whatever gets sent to this email account (from approved users) will be published automatically on the site, any spam or non authorised users will be ignored - clever!

Now download and install the following:

• http://drupal.org/project/mailhandler

• http://drupal.org/project/mailsave (enable Mailsave & Mailsave to CCK Imagefield)

• http://drupal.org/project/unwrap

• http://drupal.org/project/safehtml

Next go to /admin/settings/filters and add a new input format called efilter > tick unwrap filter, safehtml filter, Link filter and URL filter. Leave Line break converter unchecked. This is because email systems add lots of extra line breaks and we need those to be ignored.
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