Friday, November 19, 2004

Instruction for Posting by Email

I've made some modifications so that we all can post by email.  Just follow the instructions below.

--Make sure you are on the Bolish Family WebPort main page--
1. Click "Blogger" logo at upper left corner
-this should take you to the Blogger Dashboard
-you may have to sign in
-here you can find plenty of helpful info under Blogger Help and Blogger Knowledge
2.Click on "Bolish Family WebPort" under your blog list OR click "change settings" next to the Bolish Family WebPort listing

-you will be taken to several tabs of settings
3.Click "Settings" tab
4.Click "Email" tab
-you will see an option called "Mail-to-Blogger Address"
-it should look like (username).(blank)@blogger.com
5.Enter your "secret word" into the blank
-make note of your new blog email address
6.Check off the Publish box
-this will ensure that the email auto-publishes instead of creating a draft

Done

These instruction may look worse than they are. If you run into trouble, the help file is located at:
http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=135&topic=38

One final note: If your email program adds extra verbiage to the end your message, just put (pound sign)end at the end of your post and the Blog will ingnore any signatures, etc. (I couldn't actually put the # sign back there, 'cause my post would get cut off)  The help file, under Notes, has this same info if this is unclear.

Go ahead and try it out with some short posts.  Don't worry about clutter either.

Russ

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