Hi Bonziper,

Welcome to the forums.
You want to take a look at [url=http://forums.b2evolution.net/viewtopic.php?t=13142[/url]this post[/url]. Do you get error messages apart from the 'Login failed'?
Blog by email more often gives troubles setting up, but once it runs, it works perfect.

I do think you have some settings to sort out. Compare yours with the one from the images I posted in [url=http://forums.b2evolution.net/viewtopic.php?t=14234]this post[/url]. Your Mail server is probably 'localhost'.

Good luck

"Afwas" wrote:

Hi Bonziper,

Thank you for the timely response and the welcome! :D

Seems I got logged on by using localhost, but now I get the following error message:

Connecting to pop server...
Connection failed: POP3 connect: Error [100] []
What does this mean?

Now this is what i get:
Connecting to pop server...
Logging into pop server...

No mail or Login Failed: POP3 pass: authentication failed [-ERR Login failed.]

and there IS mail in the box, i sent it in three variations

It has to be something simple that is going to make me feel really stupid when I get it working. :roll:

Can you get it working with a 'normal' POP3 email? Did you see the image in the second post I pointed to, with the settings? The username can be tricky. It may or may not be your complete emailadress.

I try to find the #100 error from POP, but no luck yet.

I found the XMail error pages. Error 100 is:

-100 ERR_NO_ROOT_DOMAIN_VAR RootDomain config var not found

May or may not be the same with your set up.
The page with Errors is [url=http://www.xmailserver.org/Errors.html]here[/url]

Bonzpiper wrote:

I set the first line as follows... (exactly)
login:pass
Where login=email firstname and not name@blah.com
Where pass=password

As an aside, that should be your b2evo login, not your email login ;)

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Bonzpiper wrote:

I set the first line as follows... (exactly)
login:pass
Where login=email firstname and not name@blah.com
Where pass=password

As an aside, that should be your b2evo login, not your email login ;)

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Where login=blog name
Where pass=blog password
I have went to three of my different servers and domains and still get this message:

Connecting to pop server...
Logging into pop server...
No mail or Login Failed: POP3 pass: authentication failed [-ERR Login failed.]
I followed the instructions to the letter and did all types of variations on the login i.e.

login:pass Then I tried this:

login:pass: Then I tried this:

login:pass:post

Where post is the subject word in the subject line

Then I tried this:
login:pass
post
blah blah blah
none of it works

Ps
The login and pass in the email IS the login and password to the blog.
the name and password in the admin area is set to the email name and password in the blog by email settings.
This is what I now get:

Connecting to pop server...
Logging into pop server...
No mail or Login Failed: POP3 pass: authentication failed [-ERR Login failed.]

I send myself an email to the blog before I test to make sure, and send it in all formats(variations) with no forwards, plain text, pop3 simple emails. (smtp)
I also set my cron jobs to 1 minute in my control panel and waited for 10 minutes, nothing posted

The error message
Eroor message wrote:

No mail or Login Failed: POP3 pass: authentication failed [-ERR Login failed.]

says it cannot login to the mailbox. I am pretty sure that's the trouble with your setup. That's why I asked you to use a non local mailbox for testing purposes. Anything will do as long as you have POP3 access. If need be I can set up a temporary mailbox for you to test it.

Good luck

Afwas wrote:

The error message
Eroor message wrote:

No mail or Login Failed: POP3 pass: authentication failed [-ERR Login failed.]

says it cannot login to the mailbox. I am pretty sure that's the trouble with your setup. That's why I asked you to use a non local mailbox for testing purposes. Anything will do as long as you have POP3 access. If need be I can set up a temporary mailbox for you to test it.

Good luck

Let's try that then and see.
Thanks!! A million!

From this picture:

http://www.deharmonie.info/images/BlogByEmail.png

change
- mailserver to: mail.hemminga.net
- account name to: testing+hemminga.net
- password to: testing

Now send an email to testing@hemminga.net with in the topic the Subject prefix you entered and in the body blog login:blog password.

Lastly you make the blog ping my email.

You can check the email itself at http://www.hemminga.net/webmail with username testing+hemminga.net and password testing.

Good luck

Afwas wrote:

From this picture:

http://www.deharmonie.info/images/BlogByEmail.png

change
- mailserver to: mail.hemminga.net
- account name to: testing+hemminga.net
- password to: testing

Now send an email to testing@hemminga.net with in the topic the Subject prefix you entered and in the body blog login:blog password.

Lastly you make the blog ping my email.
Thanks! I will try this shortly

You can check the email itself at http://www.hemminga.net/webmail with username testing+hemminga.net and password testing.

Good luck

What did you try?

Bonzpiper wrote:

It has to be something simple that is going to make me feel really stupid when I get it working. :roll:

I was just trying to make you feel stupid .... but it's never the easy answer :p

If you're able to post by email using Afwas's account then you might want to consider sending him pop3/login credentials for one of your accounts that is failing and seeing if he can post by email?

Hopefully he'll find summat simple enough to make you feel stupid :roll:

.... if not then we'll just have to keep hunting and hope it doesn't end up being a complicated answer :p

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