[wp-hackers] blog by email, locally

[Aubrey Kilian]

Hey,

> I am on debian etch and have installed wordpress locally
> as localhost/wordpress.
>
> Now I would prefer to post a blog via email using my favourite mail
> client. Since everything is local on my machine, the question arises
> can't I use the smtp and pop3 server of my machine which would send
> the blog?

Surely you can just set the wordpress blog by email pickup settings to
be localhost?
That should pick up from a local pop3 account if you've set your pop3
server up to accept connections from localhost...

Cheers
Aubrey