Blog By Email

About Blog by Email

Blog by Email has been born out of necessity. Not all blog engines out there support the ability to post blog from an email address. Wordpress has a module, Das Blog, Blogengine.NET do not. For some time I have wanted to setup a blog at work to post current happening in the IT department. Have a place where users can go first to see if there are outages. Such a system will never work if network admins or technicians need to login to a blog and create a post. People will just not do that, specially network people (:.

The idea came from Dreamhost a pretty good hosting company I use for my non-Windows needs and SVN repository. They have a status site where they post current happenings in there network. A pretty cool concept I must say and a great way to keep phone calls down when the shit hits the fan.

So, I built a concept model out of Wordpress I and really liked how it turned out. Wordpress even supports posting from an email address. Unfortunately we don't have PHP loaded on any of our servers, and being a Microsoft shop, it just will not be the same. So I will use Blogengine.NET my current favorite .NET-based blogging engine. The issue, of course, is Blogengine.NET doesn't have any post by email support--the project died there.

For a few years I have been wanted to write a service like this. At my first need for it, there was a website providing this service, but it had shut down prior to me finding out about it. So here is my version of posting by email, where you can post to your blog from any popmail type email account. Feedback and comments are maintained at Uservoice. Don't be shy, let me know what you think of the site and what you would like to get out of it.