Setting you blojsom to do mobile blogging

Through this Blojsom plug in you will be able to collect emails from any device that can send them to your blog - email clients, mms enabled mobile phones, pdas and so on. You can send text and a variety of images as well.

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Go to the blojsom homepage - http://blojsom.infenv.itee.uq.edu.au/ find your student number and link on post. This will take you to the admin section of blojsom. 

Link on menu item Plugin settings > configure plug in. Click on the Mobloging plug in.

Mobloging allows you to add entries to your blog remotely via setting blog entries to an email address.  It works by checking an email account that you nominate for the messages you want to blog.

To do this it relies on a secret word to only blog the emails you want to be blogged rather than all your email.

I have outlined instructions in the image below to make this work with your student email account.

If you wish you can make a seperate email account for blogging- this will keep it separate from your everyday email. note - gmail as an email account does not work properly. This is up to you.

Configuration image

Configure the items as above, choosing your own secret word to use (Important - make sure it is one you would never have in an email you receive from .... well anyone (it is not good to blog things by accident).

You can also add a category in which all email based blogs will go, but you will need to make sure the category exists first.

It is important to fill in the last three fields as shown. This also tells you the file types which can be blogged as attachments. The fields are below so you can copy and paste them to avoid typos.

text/html, text/plain
image/png, image/jpeg, image/gif, image/jpg
image/png, image/jpeg, image/gif, image/jpg

Setting an email address:

Before you can send email to your blog, you need to set the addresses that you want to allow to add content to your blog.
The first address you should put in is your own student account.

email config
As you can see from my blog entry, I have two email addresses added - my regular UQ mail address and the email address  which my mobile phone sends picture messages through. Note- these addresses format vary depending upon the mobile phone company you use. The best way to check is to send yourself  (to email) a picture message from your phone.

Structuring an email:

(from mobloging configuration site)
Sending a post when using the secret word
In the subject of your e-mail, you must include the configured secret word at the beginning of your subject. For example, if your secret word is configured as "bl0gg3r" you would use:

Subject: bl0gg3r Subject of the e-mail used as title of the entry

Sending a post into a specific category
In the subject of your e-mail, include [/category_name] at the beginning of your subject. For example:

Subject: [/java] Subject of the e-mail used as title of the entry

Sending a post when using the secret word into a specific category.
In the subject of your e-mail, you must include the configured secret word at the beginning of your subject followed by the specific category enclosed in []. For example, if your secret word is configured as "bl0gg3r" and you want to post to your "java" category, you would use:

Subject: bl0gg3r [/java] Subject of the e-mail used as title of the entry

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Now you can start blogging!
Matt

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Please note that from some phones, when you send a picture message it will replicate the subject line text into the body of the email as well. This means that while the blojsom will remove the secret word from your subject line before publishing it,  it will not remove it from the body - so you may need to do this later manually, if it really fusses you (It is not to big a deal, as knowing the secret word does not mean you can post to someones blog, you would need to have an authorised email to do that).