The blogging software I’m using (b2) has some capability that I’ve had a
lot of trouble with — that is, the ability to pick up e-mail from a
mail account and put it in the web log. Because it didn’t work
correctly, I wrote my own routine and have been using that for the
purposes of receiving email from my Blackberry and posting it to the
website. That works fairly well, but some mail forwarding programs that
my Blackberry uses breaks up the e-mail text in in arbitrary ways and
inserts some other characters. When this type of e-mail message is
posted to the blog, it really looks bad and I have to go back and
correct the post manually. Supposedly the native b2 e-mail processes
these e-mails correctly.

So, today I spent some time fixing the native b2 process and getting it
to work. Now I need to try it with enough different e-mail
configurations to see if it really does handle the funny lines
correctly. I’ve still got some work to do on this native process since
it doesn’t send out notifications that the weblog has been updated. I’ll
need to add this code. Anyhow, it turns out that there were two
offending lines of code in the native b2 e-mail process. By commenting
out those lines of code, it now at least works. Time will tell if it
works with strange e-mail relay servers!

This is the first post using the native process. Perhaps over the next
week I’ll be able to determine what else needs to be done to make this
truly a useful process.