Moblog Module Control Panel¶

Full Moblog Name¶

The full display name of the Moblog account.

Short Name¶

The short name for the Moblog account. It must be a single word with no spaces or special punctuation.

Time Between Checks¶

The amount of time that will elapse between checks of your Moblog account. This is used in conjunction with the Check Moblog Tag on your page.

Moblog Enabled¶

You can determine whether or not the Moblog account is enabled. If the account is disabled then it will not be included when checks are made.

File Archive Mode¶

Enabling this preference basically means that your moblog is only used for uploading files. With this enabled, entries in the corresponding channel will not be created when a moblog email is processed.

Choose Channel¶

Determine with which channel the Moblog account will be associated. When you send in an entry, the entry will go into this channel. If you do not specify a channel, then no entries will be created when you send an email; only the attachments will be processed.

Default Categories¶

You may choose which category or categories the entry will be assigned to. This choice is simply a default; it can be overridden when sending the email. Field must be of the textarea type.

Default Field¶

You may choose which field the entry will be assigned to. This choice is simply a default; it can be overridden when sending the email.

Default Status¶

You may choose which status the entry will be assigned to. This choice is simply a default; it can be overridden when sending the email.

Default Author¶

You may choose which field the entry will be assigned to. This choice is simply a default; it can be overridden when sending the email.

Make Entry Sticky?¶

You may choose whether or not entries submitted via the Moblog should be marked as “sticky” by default.

Allow Overrides in Email?¶

This allows you to specify whether or not you can override the default values specified on this page by including overrides in the actual email text. If turned on, this preference will cause the Moblog to ignore any overrides sent along with the email.

Moblog Template¶

Define how the information you submit in your email is handled. A simple example:

{images}<img src="{file}" width="{width}" height="{height}" alt="pic" />{/images}
{text}

A more complex example:

{field name="body" format="xhtml"} {text} {/field}
{field name="body_image" format="none"} {images} <img src="{file}" width="{width}" height="{height}" alt="pic" /> {/images} {/field}

{audio} <p>Listen to the <a href="{file}">audio</a>!</p> {/audio}

{field name="extended" format="xhtml"} {text} {/field}

{audio} <p>Listen to the <a href="{file}">audio</a>!</p> {/audio}

{files match="movie|files"} <p>View the <a href="{file}">presentation</a>.</p> {/files}

{files match="audio|files"}

<img src="{file}" width="{width}" height="{height}" alt="pic" />

{images} <img src="{file}" width="{width}" height="{height}" alt="pic" /> {/images}

{movie} <p>Watch our new <a href="{file}">movie</a> now.</p> {/movie}

{field name="extended" format="xhtml"} {text} {/field}

{images} <img src="{thumbnail}" width="{thumb_width}" height="{thumb_height}" alt="thumbnail image" /> {/images}

{images} <img src="{thumbnail}" width="{thumb_width}" height="{thumb_height}" alt="thumbnail image" /> {/images}

{images} <img src="{thumbnail}" width="{thumb_width}" height="{thumb_height}" alt="thumbnail image" /> {/images}

<img src="{file}" width="{width}" height="{height}" alt="pic" />

Email Account Type¶

The type of email account. Currently, only POP3 accounts are supported.

Email Address¶

This is the email account to which you will be sending your emails. ExpressionEngine will check this account to find emails you’ve sent that should be processed by the Moblog Module.

Incoming Mail Server¶

The email server on which the email account you specified resides. This is the server to which ExpressionEngine will attempt to connect. This is typically something like mail.example.com. If you are using POP3 over SSL, you must prefix the server address with ssl://, e.g. ssl://pop.gmail.com.

Email Account Username¶

The username for the specified email account. Once submitted, the information will be encrypted in ExpressionEngine. Remember that some email accounts require you to use the full email address as the “username”: username@example.com.

Email Account Password¶

The password for the specified email account. Once submitted, the information will be encrypted in ExpressionEngine.

Moblog Subject Prefix¶

When ExpressionEngine checks the specified email account, it will ignore any messages that do not have this text in the subject. The text does not technically have to be at the beginning of the subject, either; it can appear anywhere in the subject. If you leave this setting blank, then all emails will be processed. By default, any text in the subject that is not the subject prefix will be used for the entry title.

Authorization Required in Email?¶

If this preferences is set to Yes, then you will need to provide a valid username and password in the email sent. This ensures an extra level of security so that only authorized people will be able to post via the Moblog Modules. If the user authentication from the email fails then an entry will not be posted.

Delete Unauthorized Moblog Emails?¶

You may determine how ExpressionEngine will handle an “unauthorized” email. If you require email authorization (above) and the email fails the authorization (for instance the username or password are incorrect) then you can have ExpressionEngine automatically delete that email. If you do not set this, then the email will be left on the server.

Valid ‘From’ Emails for Moblog¶

You can specify a list of email addresses from which you can submit Moblog emails. This preference will allow you to add in another layer of security so that ExpressionEngine will only accept emails that you want it to process. This feature will check what address is specified as “From” on emails and compare it to your list.

You can specify one or more email addresses by either placing them on separate lines in the textarea or by separating them with a space. If you leave the setting blank then ExpressionEngine will not filter emails based on where it is “From”.

Ignore Email Text¶

Here you can specify any text in the email which you want to ignore. This is useful for email accounts such as those through Hotmail or Yahoo that add advertisements at the bottom. It’s also useful for removing automatically-added signatures.

ExpressionEngine will first try to match the entire specified text to something in the email. If there is no match, then it will go through each of the lines (a line being one ended in a carriage return) of specified text individually and try to match content in the email in order to remove the desired content.

Upload Directory for Files¶

You may determine into which of your File Upload directories the file attachments will be placed. These upload directories are defined in the File Upload Preferences section.

Image Size¶

Choose the image from your defined image dimensions from the selected upload directory. If you don’t choose a size, the image will upload at full size. These sizes are defined in the File Upload Preferences section.

Thumb Size¶

Choose the thumbnail size from your defined image dimensions from the selected upload directory. These sizes are defined in the File Upload Preferences section.