I received a question from Nina in a comment here on the blog, asking what I’ve done to be able to send blog posts with my mobile phone. I decided to publish my answer here as well, to make it easier for someone else having the same question to get an answer! For the record, I got my starting help from Markus Hängsel, and of course he also have deserved a link! :)

Step-by-step guide:

1. First go ahead and download the plugin Postie and install it.

2. Create a new e-mail address, in my case I created a new one on my own domain.

3. Next step is to configure Postie to fetch e-mails from the e-mail address you just created and publish them on the blog. I also configured Postie to only allow e-mails sent from my mobile phone to be published, this way we prevent eventual spam e-mails from appearing on the blog.

4. Next you have to make sure that Postie at regular intervals checks the e-mail account for new e-mails by, if you have the possibility, setting up a Cron job on your server, or by using the plugin Cronless Postie, that came along when you installed Postie.
My host doesn’t allow me to use Cron jobs, so in my case I’m using Cronless Postie. You can also use a service called Easy Monitor, which is an external service that you can read more about in the Postie FAQ.

5. To use Cronless Postie, if you choose this solution, you start by activating the plugin. Then, to make Cronless Postie check your e-mail at regular intervals, we have to tell it to do so. This is easily done by, in the three wordpress feed-files wp-atom, wp-rss och wp-rss2, adding the following code just before the last ?>-tag:
do_action(’check_postie’);

6. Then you sign up for an account at, for example, www.bloglines.com, and add your page to your subscriptions. Bloglines will then check your rss-feed about one time every hour, and at the same time tell Cronless Postie to check your e-mail. Magic!

Everyone can’t send e-mails with their mobile phone, I’m one of them, but what I can do is send mms:es to e-mail addresses, and this works just as well. I’m not saying this is the best solution, It’s the solution I came up with after googling around over this topic. If anyone has a better solution or ideas to improve this one, please tell me!

I hope this helps you get everything to work, but before you go, please let me give you a warning: Be careful with moblogging combined with beer, this could get very expensive! :)

(Here’s a link to intressant.se, hopefully this will help people finding this post easier.)