Monthly Archives: December 2009

Postie and Gmail/Google Apps

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My Google Apps account was not working with the Postie plugin.

I got this error message:

Unable to connect. The server said – POP3 connect: Error
Try putting in your full email address as a userid and try again.

My settings were:

Mail Protocol: POP3
(The only other option IMAP/IMAP-SSL/POP3-SSL had a message saying it was not available.)

Port: 995

Postie Time Correction: –6 hours

Mail Server: pop.gmail.com

Mail Userid: <email address>

Mail password: <password>

I did a little Google digging and found the solution in a comment at the very bottom of this page at Economy Sized Geek.

All I had to do was add “ssl://” to the beginning of my mail server to become “ssl://pop.gmail.com”

After making the change, I was able to connect to the mail server. Thank you, lewen7er9.

Stopping the auto-formatting madness

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So I put in this donation form on a page and WordPress reformats it.  A <br /> tag was inserted between a dollar sign ($) and the input field tag for the amount so the $ appears above the box on the published page.

A Google search brought me to this post which suggests a way to disable all the auto-formatting for a page or post.  That’s a little extreme for me because that would require me to reformat the whole site or a little coding on my part to say I just wanted auto-formatting turned off for that particular page.

I wanted something simpler and found it with the WP-No-Format plugin. By using a couple lines of code, I can shield select parts of my text from auto-formatting by placing <!– noformat on –-> and <!– noformat off –-> around the code I want to protect.

I love the plug-ins that do one thing and do them well.

If you like the WP-No-Format plugin, why not send the author a donation? Great work like this that saves us time should be rewarded.