Blog by email

Over the coming months I plan to blog about various upgrades we are doing to our products. In this post I'm going to explain a little about the incoming email functionality we have added to the latest version of Cookie Jar.

Cookie Jar 7 now has the ability to accept incoming email, check it's mailboxes for various patterns and process the email content based on preset configuration in the CMS.
Let's say for example that you want to be able to blog to your site from your email. First you setup the connection details to the email server you want to check.

Then you setup the mailbox you want to accept incoming mail and point it to a content folder that you want to accept the content from the email.

Then you simply send an email to blog@solidstategroup.com with the content you want to appear on the blog and Cookie Jar will check the email inbox and read the content in the email and save it as a new blog article. Easy as pie.

There are also options to redistribute the email to members of one of the user groups in Cookie Jar which is pretty handy if you want to setup an email list for your clients and have all the conversations automatically tracked and made available on a secure area of the website.

I'll be blogging about some of the cool ways we are using this feature in the future, so stay tuned.