Aug 282009
Recently I published the One-Time Password WordPress plugin to be able to login more safely into my weblog to write my travel stories in internet cafés. I wanted something similar to access my e-mail. I considered using my weblog URL as OpenID, but most e-mail providers support OpenID only as provider, not as consumer (meaning that you cannot login with an OpenID). But suddenly I thought why not access my e-mail directly from my WordPress dashboard using a pre-stored password? This is exactly what the Mini Mail Dashboard Widget plugin offers, with the option to receive SMS messages when new e-mail messages arrive (using the services of VoipBuster or one of its clones).
Awesome plugin. I can send messages but I am having a problem with receiving messages.
It comes up with this message “cannot connect to host; error = php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: Name or service not known (errno = 0 )”.
If you entered a valid POP or IMAP server address, then it could be that DNS is not working correctly on the hosting server. If this is the case, only your hosting provider can solve this.
Hi, i successfully downloaded and installed this plugin. I am using WordPress’ latest version. However, when i activated it, it triggered an error and couldnt activate. What could the problem be?
The error was something like this:
Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.
Required function “mb_convert_encoding” does not exist
This means your PHP installation doesn’t support the mb_convert_encoding function, which is required to use the plugin. You could try to ask support from your hosting provider on this.
Thanx för Great plugin!
Do you have a [hook] for adding widget to a page?
Ability to save/archive incoming mail to forlders?
Best regards
Andreas
The widget is designed to work only on the backend.
Mini Mail is intented as a simple e-mail client to quickly read/write e-mails from WordPress. For this reason it has limited functionality, so archiving is not possible, sorry. You’ll have to use another e-mail client for this.
Since most ADMINs have an email account on the very same hosted account used for the WP site is there not a simpler way to connect to your email client on the server ?
I don’t see how this question is related to the Mini Mail Dashboard Widget. Can you explain in more detail what you want or what your problem is? The plugin just needs a mailbox to check, it doesn’t matter where it is.
Hey Marcel, nice plugin you have made. I need to display the “Sent Items” too, is there a way I can get this data from within your plugin?
By the way would you like to have it translated into Brazilian Portuguese?
Many thanks
The plugin has no own mail storage, so there is no sent box.
A workaround is to use the option ‘BCC self‘.
Attachements are not working for me! Tried to send an attachement of 1MB to myself but i did not receive it. Any help?
Thanks.
Was sending the e-mail with attachment successful?
Did you look into your spam folder?
The email was sent successfully but recipients did not receive the attachment. Tried to send it with both PHPmail and SMTP but still the attachment is not included.
In gmail the response i get is “Attachments may be unavailable.”
In Mail i get the following “This is a message in Mime Format. If you see this, your mail reader does not support this format.”
I just tested it with an image as attachment and it was received okay in g-mail.
What type of attachment did you send? Image? Document?
Maybe the mime type is incorrect/missing due to configuration issues on the hosting server. The PHP function mime_content_type is being used to determine the mime type. If this function isn’t present application/octet-stream will be used.
You can contact me through the contact form. I will reply and then you can try sending a message to me, so I can look into it.
Could you please install the development version (follow the link in the changelog), enable debugging (a plugin option) and try again sending a message with attachment and post the debug info displayed in the dashboard widget here?