[wp-hackers] Re: blog by email, locally

[Aubrey Kilian]

Hi,

>    Aubrey> Surely you can just set the wordpress blog by email pickup
>    Aubrey> settings to be localhost? That should pick up from a local
>    Aubrey> pop3 account if you've set your pop3 server up to accept
>    Aubrey> connections from localhost...
>
> Thanks, it seems that for some bizarre reason my localhost is blocked.
> Anyhow I tried to use my gmail account instead, but it seems that
> the 995 port (pop+ssl) does not work for wordpress. Am I correct?

As far as I know, not out of the box, no.
Have you tried specifying your local machine's IP number instead of
'localhost' as your pop3 server?
I had the same issues with gmail a while before, and ended up hacking
together a cron script using stunnel to check my gmail.
There's also a 'wp-gmail.php' that somebody wrote (I found a google
cache'd version of it here:
http://72.14.221.104/search?q=cache:4Wt-fjLVmhIJ:www.audiolicious.com/weblog/wpfilez/wp-gmail.phps+wordpress+gmail+wp-gmail.php&hl=en&gl=za&ct=clnk&cd=3&client=firefox-a
 ) that you can use, but these solutions are really only if you have
ssh access to your blog's machine, and if you're comfortable in a
terminal environment.

Cheers
Aubrey