Using Email to Post Blog Entries

Yesterday, I started my first blog, and discovered that it was possible to post a blog via email!  Naturally, I posted that little tidbit of knowledge.  Like a silly person, however, I didn't mention how it could be accomplished....

So here's how:

1. Go to Blogger.com.
2. Signing in, or being signed in and following step 1 above should put you at the dashboard. If not, then click "Dashboard" at the very top of the page.
3. To the right of your photo/avatar is a section titled "Manage Blogs" that contains several links along the bottom; click "Settings."
4. Click "Email & Mobile" near the top of the page.
5. Under "Posting Options" is an email address that begins with your username and ends with "@blogger.com" with a text box in between.  Fill in the text box with some unique and hard-to-guess word or words that are easy for you to remember (after all, you probably don't want other people to post a blog entry in your name on your blog, which would be possible if they knew the email address you chose).
6. Choose "Publish emails immediately."
7. Save those settings, and you're done!

All you need to do now is email whatever you wish to post to the email address you chose.  The subject of the email will be the title of the blog entry, and the body of the email will be the body of the entry.  The size of the email (at the time of this entry) is limited to 10 MB, but both text and graphics are permitted.  Now, of course, these steps applies strictly to Blogger.com, but if I were a betting man, I'd bet most other blog sites provide a similar feature.

One caveat I've noticed is that labels (tags) on your posts can't be specified via the email.  I don't know of a way to specify them via the email, which may or may not be a deal-breaker for you.  Either way, however, editing the posts later will permit you to provide any labels, so all is not lost when using this method.

Happy blogging!