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).
hello, i would like to know if there´s a plug in that alow my readers to fill in a box on my blog and i recive theire writning in my mail box or in the control panel…can anybod help me with this please, and if so…can that person please e-mail me on niklas@houseofniklas.se and i would like to have the same for sms, but it has to work in sweden…
thank you
/niklas
Hi there
Thanks for the plugin – sounds great! But I am having some issues. I set up my plugin to receive via IMAP and send via SMTP using settings that have worked on my desktop client and on my phone, but when I go to the dashboard I get Error 500.
Any idea what’s wrong?
Cheers
/Doug
Probably your hosting provider blocks IMAP and/or SMTP traffic.
Hello,
I get a fatal error message when trying to activate this plugin. The message is below. I will look at the line, but I am not versed in PHP. Any help greatly appreciated.
George McGinn.
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘{‘ in \\nawinfs02\home\users\web\b848\rh.gmcginn\wp-content\plugins\mini-mail-dashboard-widget\wp-mini-mail-class.php on line 1370
What version PHP are you using? Mini Mail should check the PHP version (at least 5.2.4 for the Zend Framework), but maybe this didn’t work in your case.
Hi Marcel,
I’m creating a small extranet groupware like blog (not live yet) and your plugin would be really helpful. Unfortunately, i can’t make it work. using imap i get an allocation error and using pop3 i get a “read failed – connection closed?” error.
The settings are the same i use in outlook so they should be fine.
Any ideas?
Maybe your hosting provider (or server) blocks IMAP/POP traffic.
FYI … if you have “WP Security Scan 2.7.1.2 by Michael Torbert at “http://semperfiwebdesign.com/plugins/wp-security-scan/”, you will get an error on your dashboard stating “Mini Mail requires at least WordPress 2.7, installed version is abc”.
Nice thing is, I would not consider this a bug, as the “Security Scan” plugin is not necessary to be active all the time, but only activated when you want to perform a quick check, the deactivate it.
So, if you hear of anyone beating their head over this, now you know.
Thanks for the plugin!
Lane
WP v2.8.6
I want to get this plugin going, how do I do this?
Take a look at this comment for more detailed instructions. I think you are using Yahoo! Mail. In that case you can use Mini Mail only if you have a Mail Plus subscription, because Yahoo! POP access is not free. See here for technical details.
Is it possible to use this in a front-side widget area? I have a wordpress site that is used similarly to netvibes and igoogle. Using this on the front would be perfect.
Although it is simple to add a sitebar widget, I couldn’t find a quick fix for styling the buttons. If you want to give it a try, replace your
wp-mini-mail-class.phpwith this one. The goal should be one css file for both the front- and back-end. The problem is that I have a very tight schedule and that I will be traveling for some time.Hi.
I am desperately looking for a plugin which would handle the following problem:
I get a lot of comments that I cannot approve for various reasons (not spam). I want to click on a refused comment and have an email sent to the commenter saying:
Dear [Commenter name as entered in comment submission form],
Thank you for commenting on post [post name]
You comment [comment]
cannot be approved.
This is due to the fact that …. Whattever
Could you tweak your plugin to so this ?
Thank You
Susan Flmaingo
I would like to help you, but the feature you are requesting is very specific and quite far from the feature set and Goal of Mini Mail.
However, I do have a suggestion: maybe you can use the Comment Reply Notification plugin for your purpose.
I was wondering if there was anyway to change the minimum capability of publish_posts to edit_posts? My authors need approval before publishing posts, but I would like for them to be able to use the mini mail widget. Thanks
I will add an option to set the minimum capability in the next version (expect it this week).
Version 0.9 requires edit_posts capability (normally Contributors) to access the tools menu.
its possible for users with the “author”-role to use this plugin? i tried with admins, and this is working, but no other role seems to work, its displayed in the dashboard but i cannot access the settings.
and its a really usefull plugin!
It appears that WordPress requires the capability edit_dashboard for configuring dashboard widgets. Normally only administrators have this capability. You could consider giving this capability to authors, but be sure to check that they cannot do other things you don’t want. I will think about a workaround for Mini Mail. I will probably move the configuration to the settings. Stay tuned.
The in-place widget configuration has been moved to the tools menu in version 0.6. Users with at least publish_posts capability (normally authors) can access this menu. As before only users with manage_options capability (normally administrators) can change the general options. A new option to include or exclude the WordPress users to the address book has been added. This option is disabled by default for privacy reasons.
Hi Marcel,
Lovely site you have with stunning photography.
Here in Ireland (Floridian married to a Paddy), I’m trying to install your Mini Mail Dashboard Widget onto our new Wordpress blog but am unsuccessful so far. I downloaded the files onto our desktop. My husband, who’s as clueless as myself, tried going through your steps and was thrawted during login when Wordpress said our login name didn’t exist. Anyway, I’m sure there’s nothing you can do but I will contact Wordpress tomorrow.
Will we need to install HTML language and all of that? You’re dealing with a techno idiot here, sorry. Thanks for any help you can provide.
Regards,
Kate
I just found your comment between the spam. Installing Mini Mail is not really a task for a ‘techno idiot’, but you can always try and maybe learn something. First of all follow the installation instruction step-by-step. Only the steps below the Using the WordPress dashboard heading. Then within Wordpress go to Tools, Mini Mail. Fill in your name and e-mail address and select POP3 as receive method and PHP mail as send method. After that fill in the POP3 details. I think you are using Windows Live Hotmail, then host: pop3.live.com, secure transfer: SSL, port: 995, user name: your e-mail address, password: your e-mail password. Now click the Save button at the bottom. With a bit of luck Mini Mail will work now. Not that hard, isn’t it?