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Does postmaster require 755 or 777 permissions? I have installed this plugin but cannot successfully test the attachment upload directory on the settings page.  I have confirmed w/ my host that the directory allows 755 permissions so I am not sure what the problem is.

@Melinda

755 permisions on the attachment directory should be sufficient. Are you using a relative or absolute path? Can you upload to it via ftp?

Try absolute and relative paths, let me know how it goes.

—Brett

Thanks! I spent more time this evening playing with the upload path, and I got it to work! I’m perfectly delighted with this plugin- it fits my blog and my lifestyle so well. I’m sure some of my challenges are due to “user errors”- I am a newbie to HTML and scripting.  Thank you so much for all your patience and your helpfulness! (and your wonderful plugin!)

I spoke too soon. The next day I emailed a post w/ a photo from my blackberry and it did not show up on my site. When I ran the wp-mail.php script i got this error: “Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 1600 bytes) in /home/melinda1/public_html/wp-content/plugins/postmaster/pm_graphics.php on line 55”.

I went to my php.ini file and increased the amount of memory allowed in a download, but it didn’t change anything.  I also discovered that the photo was successfully uploaded to my server- the photo/text just did not publish on my blog.

Could this be caused by something within the plugin’s code?

Knock on wood, but I think I fixed it.
I deactivated and deleted the plugin entirely, then downloaded a fresh copy from your site, uploaded it to my site, and started anew.  That seems to have fixed it.  I’m guessing this may have been a one-in-a-million file that got corrupted, or something like that.  Thanks for all your help! and sorry to bother you!

Argh! Okay, I won’t be surprised if you totally ignore this because I’m probably acting like an annoying little sister.  But I finally figured out the problem and I don’t know why I didn’t notice it sooner!

When I send an email to my blog from Thunderbird, I have no problems.  The email arrives and is published perfectly.

When I send an email to my blog from my Blackberry, either I get the images with gibberish text or I get the fatal error mentioned before.

I can’t believe I’m having this problem.  If you’re feeling magnanimous, I would very much appreciate your help!

@Melinda

Sounds like your blackberry is formatting emails in a weird way. That is to say that the parsing script can’t figure out what to do with it.

The error you are getting is due to the script allocating more memory than it is allowed to by the system. This could be due to the parser getting stuck in an infinite loop.

Send an email from your blackberry to pmtest at xforward dot com, and I will use it to troubleshoot the issue.

Hey there, I’m not sure how significant this is but I discovered today that the garbled text is being coded into Base64.

Just out of curiosity…
Do you recommend any particular sites for learning PHP? I want to expand my knowledge of it to *maybe* be able to figure this out.  I have been incredibly frustrated in solving the problem on the Blackberry end, but I am wondering if it is possible to add a Base64 decoder that would decode posts before publishing. If so I think that might solve the problem. Thanks for your help!

Brett-
I’ve discovered that the problem with posting via Blackberry is that the info is encoded into Base64.  So, obviously, you have to somehow set wordpress to decode the base64.  I have been slowly comparing the original wp-mail file, the wp-mail file included with your plugin, and another wp-mail text file from here that includes the base64 decoding.  It’s going slowly but I’ll let you know what I figure out.

@Melinda

Thanks for digging around and finding out the issue with blackberry. I am finishing a freelance project at the moment so PostMaster has taken a back seat to my paying gigs.

FYI base64 decoding is really simple in PHP just use the base64_decode() function.

No problem- this is a huge learning experience for me, as I’m expanding my knowledge of PHP by leaps and bounds. But there is certainly nothing wrong with that!  I totally understand the priority of paid gigs- in fact, the reason I haven’t finished this sooner is that I also focus on my daytime job more than more website! (that and an untimely car accident…)

Thanks for the php command!

Let me know if you’re able to work on this. I’m making progress but it’s frustratingly slow- basically I’m just teaching myself PHP, and there is a lot to learn!  Thanks!

Having the same memory error with files over ~800k.  PHP.ini allocates 40M.  I’ve tried using the WP_MEMORY_LIMIT in the wp-config file too.

I’m posting from gMail and it’s definitely the image size. Smaller images and text only posts work fine.

Exact error message:

Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 32505856) (tried to allocate 1026631 bytes) in /homepages/15/d158256206/htdocs/nappfamily.com/blogs/nick/wp-content/plugins/postmaster/PMMailParser.php on line 62

Brett- I got the Postmaster plugin and wp-blog-by-email working today!  After reading so many forums that it made my eyes spin, I discovered that the problem was with my blackberry.  I don’t totally understand it but somehow it was messing up the MIME encoding.  (my theory is that Opera Mini, which I had on my BB for awhile but which never quite acted right, corrupted something.)  Anyway, today I reinstalled the OS and now all seems to be well.  Thanks for your great plugin- it makes it so much easier to post by email!

Nick- I had the same problem at first.  Make sure that you’ve made the changes in *all* the places in the php.ini file (as I recall, there are at least two or three).  If you are sure that you’ve made those changes, talk to your host- when I questioned that, my host discovered a minor error on THEIR end that was causing the problem.

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Knock on wood, but I think I fixed it.
I deactivated and deleted the plugin entirely, then downloaded a fresh copy from your site, uploaded it to my site, and started anew.  That seems to have fixed it.  I’m guessing this may have been a one-in-a-million file that got corrupted, or something like that.  Thanks for all your help! and sorry to bother you!

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755 permisions on the attachment directory should be sufficient. Are you using a relative or absolute path? Can you upload to it via ftp?

Try absolute and relative paths, let me know how it goes.