Setting Up Email Services For My Blog

Moving the blogs to the hosted services at BlueHost involved quite a
bit of setup. The first set of work was to make the actual, normal
blogs work correctly. That is, people needed to be able to read the
blogs, the blog owners needed to be able to log in and manage their
blogs, and new content had to post correctly.

The second part was to get picture albums work correctly for the
people who have that capability. That turned out to be quite a bit
more challenging because of a configuration difference between
BlueHost and my web servers at home. The problem was further
complicated because some of the server logs are not accessible! I need
to talk with a systems admin at BlueHost to understand how everything
is set up so that future problems can be resolved much more quickly.

Now I’m working on getting the ability to email a blog entry working.
This is the test…. I’ll know if it works if this post shows up as
expected on my blog. If so, then we’re good to go for those who have
this capability set up.

I’ll work tomorrow on getting the tweets from Twitter for me, Perry,
and Jim working properly. I haven’t started working on this, yet, but
I expect it’ll be fairly straight forward.

Finally, I have a process that downloads my tweets from Twitter and
puts them on my blog in one of the sidebars. When that’s working, I’ll
have finished the move of the blogs to the new service. Then it’ll be
time to celebrate!