In addition to having the ability to post on-line to this journal, I also want to be able to send e-mail to the journal and have that post as well. This is the first step in that process, making sure that by doing a straight insert into the database is handled correctly by the system.

The incoming e-mail would have the category, author, posting date and time, and the content of the post in the body of the e-mail. A php program set up as a cron job would read the incoming e-mail, parse out the various components, and insert the post into the journal database.

The purpose is to provide a way to write a journal entry while I’m not connected to the internet, such as when I’m on an airplane, and be able to deliver the post when I am next able to connect to the internet.