Sunday, October 9, 2011

A Posting-by-Email Gotcha

A couple of you who have tried to post via email have seen the message; 
Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:

    <email address>

Technical details of permanent failure:
You have exceeded the the allowable number of posts without solving a captcha.

 This message apparently can occur if:
  • Your attached photo(s) is larger than 10MB
  • We have exceeded the undocumented daily maximum of posts via email
If you receive the message, first check that your attachment(s) aren't too large and then try again the following day.

I wasn't aware of the "gotcha" when I suggested posting via email to some of you ... it looked like a viable work-around to the 100 author limit, but I can see what a PIA this could become.
Posted by sophie at 2:03 PM
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3 comments:

  1. MaryOctober 9, 2011 at 4:24 PM

    I haven't seen my Block appear on the BLOG so I presume mine was one of them that was in your "GOTCHA" Sorry it doesn't work.

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  2. LJRandolphOctober 9, 2011 at 9:14 PM

    This will also mean that one can't count on being able to post their blocks on the last day.

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  3. sophieOctober 10, 2011 at 6:57 PM

    There usually isn't a flurry of posts on the last day, so we should be OK. Anyone who gets the error can always email their original message to ME. I check my email as well as the blog before sending the list of names to whomever is our winner-picker of the month. No one should miss out on getting their name in the drawing.

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