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pop2blog
Copyright (C) 2003 Charlie Reitsma.

pop2blog was created specifically out of a desire to take the jpeg images which the Danger Hiptop (aka T-Mobile Sidekick) is able to capture and email and post them as entries in a MovableType weblog. It can be seen in use on this site's main blog page. Because it makes use of MovableType's XML-RPC, it should be easy to adapt this script to work with any weblog backend that uses the Blogger API.

pop2blog, when executed, checks a given pop3 email account for email from a particular list of allowed senders. When email is found, pop2blog parses the email for text and embedded jpegs, and performs one of three tasks, depending on the content type discovered:

-If text is discovered, pop2blog uses the subject line as the entry title, and the text as the entry body.
-If text and an image is discovered, uses the subject line as the entry title, and the text as the entry body, copies the image into an images directory with a unique name and a "now.jpg" name.
-If an image is discovered, copies the image into an images directory with a unique name and a "now.jpg" name.
Lastly, pop2blog deletes emails it successfully posts to the webpage, and reports the subject of messages that were not blogged.

pop2blog was inpired by Joi Ito's work on mail2entry, and is only possible thanks to Aaron Straup Cope's Net::Blogger and Mark Overmeer's Mail::Box.

Please send (non support related) comments and enhancements or modifications to the code (as outlined by the GPL) to bix@bixworld.com.