Serendipity Forums

Hi!

Is it possible to email new blog posts to blog services like Posterous or Tumblr? All these (light blog) services need is to receive an email when the post is saved, or better, when it becomes available on the frontend side (if the date is set to the future when posting).

Posterous can not receive RSS entries while Tumblr can. But even if Tumblr can import my RSS feed I need to post there as well in able to keep the RSS alive. While sending emails would enable posting to these (and other similar) services with no need to logging in, keeping sessions alive, etc.

I could write a perl or php script and run it in cron. But integration with the blog would be preferred. So I was wondering if something similar exists because I couldn't find anything in the forums and FAQ.

Just a thought.

There is a plugin "serendipity_event_mailer" that is able to send articles to email addresses.
Did your gave this a try? It should do, what you intended.

blog.brockha.us wrote:There is a plugin "serendipity_event_mailer" that is able to send articles to email addresses ...

I looked at it but I don't know if it sends an email when port is saved or when it appears online (e.g. if posting date is in the future). I might give it a try.

Thanks for now.

Articles posted "in the future" don't produce an event, when they get visible. The event "published" will be send, when the article is saved as "published" no matter what date was set.

This is the same for trackbacks / pingbacks. They will be send when the article is saved as "published" not when they get visible.

So: Articles saved as "show in the future" are a problem in general. For that I personally don't use this feature.