The most convenient way to add entries to your Weblog is by using Microsoft Outlook or any other mail program that supports sending HTML e-mail. Once you have set up “Mail To Weblog” support (see Configuration) for a POP3 account, all you need to do is to send an email to that account and your entry will be posted within a few minutes.

You can embed images and also attachments to the message. Images and attachments will be extracted by the engine and stored in the directory for binary content. Image links will then be fixed to point to the extracted images and download links will be automatically created for any attachments of the message.

The subject is prefixed with the prefix that has been set in the configuration. Categories for the entry can be set by including the category names into the subject line using square brackets. There may be multiple category entries on the subject line. The entry title becomes what remains of the subject line once the prefix and the category items have been stripped out.

You can send mail either in HTML or in plain text format. However, if you send plain text, you will not be able to send markup.

To achieve the best results, it is highly recommended to make the following configuration change in Microsoft Word 2003, if you use Word as your e-mail editor in Outlook 2003. Selecting these options will instruct Word to emit a very lightweight HTML variant that is not littered with Microsoft Office specific tags. Under Tools/Options/General, clicking the E-Mail Options … button you will find the following dialog. Set the HTML filtering options to High and select the Rely on CSS for font formatting option. Earlier versions of Outlook/Word seem not to offer this option and therefore you may prefer to send plain text messages if the resulting HTML causes problems for the presentation of your Weblog.

Sample image of posting the above blog via e-mail!