This section controls the Mail To Weblog feature. If you enter the DNS name or IP Address of a POP3 server and a POP3 user name and password here, the engine will try to check for new mail on this account periodically (the wait between polls is defined by the POP3 Poll Interval setting).

Please note that the engine will download and delete all mail from the given POP account while scanning for items to post!

I understand that the next version/release of dasBlog has defaulted to "Only processed". One dumb user did not read this guide (that was me, before I wrote this), and lost over 500 e-mails in a real on a job e-mail account. "Delete all" works well if you have a dedicated e-mail account for just your blog!

The incoming mail’s subject lines are checked for whether they are prefixed with a secret phrase, specified  in the POP3 subject prefix field. If the phrase is found at the beginning of the subject line (the test is case-sensitive!), the mail is accepted for processing. The engine will extract the mail and all attachments, store them and create a new entry into your Weblog.

MailToWeblog in DasBlog takes new posts via email with the email subject in this format:

SECRETWORD Blog Post Title [category1;category2;category3]

SECRETWORD is the prepended keyword that will cause dasBlog to post your post. This is configurable. The list of categories is separated by semicolons ";" and appears within brackets []. If you send email and HTML'ed inline images, those emails are automatically stored and the whole email is posted as is. If you send plain text email with attached images, those images are optionally thumbnailed and linked to, and of course extracted and stored on the server.