If you haven’t enabled the Email To Blog feature on your blog, now is the best time to do it.

We have just added support for processing email attachments. This means you can now construct a complete entry with HTML and images completely from your email client (such as Microsoft Outlook or Mozilla Thunderbird) and post to your blog without ever opening a web browser!

All attachments will be processed and if they are an acceptable file type (currently jpeg, jpg, gif, bmp, png, wav, mov, avi, mpg) they will be saved in your “File Uploads”. If any of your attachments are inline in the message (like the photo above), they will appear in the entry itself.

To enable this feature on your Blog, log in to your Blog Manager at http://www.realtownblogs.com. Click on General Settings and scroll down to the Email To Blog section. Check the “Enable this feature” box if it’s not already checked. Then enter a special passphrase to create your unique blog email address. Please *do not* use your RealTown Blogs password as your passphrase. We highly suggest using random letters and numbers for the passphrase to help prevent others from guessing it, and we also provide you with some sample passphrases (generated randomly) on the page itself if you’re having trouble picking one. Then select whether you want your emailed entries to automatically be published on your Blog (recommended when you’re out traveling or won’t have access to a computer for some time) or saved as drafts for revising/editing later. You can always change this at any time. The last step is to select a default category for incoming entries. Then click Save and you’re done!

You can use your special email address for posting to your Blog from anywhere that you have email access. This includes any email-enabled portable devices like cell phones and Blackberries.

This entry was posted to my blog via email, including the image.