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louisgray.com: louisgray.com: FriendFeed Friday Tips #8: How To Post To FriendFeed From Your E-mail

  • Mona N. · 1 year ago
    Thanks for this tutorial, Louis
  • William · 1 year ago
    This is great - now I can add increase my source-of-materials. Thanks.
  • Christopher Harley · 1 year ago
    Not 15 minutes earlier, I was trying to envision how I would get images into my FF posts if they weren't already hosted somewhere. Thanks, Louis.
  • Louis Gray · 1 year ago
    I'm glad you could find it useful. There are a number of features that are less-known by new FriendFeed users which we've been taking for granted for months. Sometimes I think I'm stating the obvious, but it's good to know this will benefit you. The Mail2FF addition is something I use frequently and I'm pleased to know they've adopted it so whole heartedly.
  • kosso · 1 year ago
    Nice tip! Thanks Louis. The great thing about this is already support a load of 'mail-in' systems for crossposting. Now I can easily add FF support.

    Email really *is* still useful! :)
  • Rishabh Mishra (possible248) · 1 year ago
    Wow, I wish my remote key was, "purple456monkey". Perhaps I'll keep autogenerating keys until I come up with a really funny one.
  • Christopher Harley · 1 year ago
    I tried it and I'm really happy with the results. The first attempt failed and I received this Error message: Status: 5.0.0 (SMTP transmission failure has occurred) Diagnostic-code: smtp;550 error (500, None)

    Would there be a file size limitation? I scaled down the photo and it worked like a charm.

    On the second semi-successful post I added a photo and a brief, 380K, mp3 describing the photo. The photo showed up instantaneously but no audio enclosures for the mp3. With images, text, and audio I really believe that this could take FF posts to a whole other level. Any possibility we might see this in the future?
  • A3PixitesMunier · 1 year ago
    these milestones rock!
  • Louis Gray · 1 year ago
    Thanks. The intent of this post wasn't to double down on self-congratulations at all, but to show an actual post, which I had recreated. Hope the real world example made it more apparent.
  • maverickny · 1 year ago
    What a very helpful set of instructions, Louis!

    Thanks for sharing that as I was wondering if it could be done the other day.
  • Phil Glockner · 1 year ago
  • Laforge129 · 1 year ago
    Cool, I didn't know ou could do that until now. I'll check it out!!