Description
Postie offers many advanced features for creating posts by email, including the ability to assign categories by name, included pictures and videos, and automatically strip off signatures.
Postie supports both IMAP and POP including SSL/TLS.
There is also an extensive set of filters/actions for developers to extend Postie’s functionality.
For usage notes, see the other notes page.
More info at http://PostiePlugin.com/
Features
- Supports IMAP or POP3 servers
- SSL and TLS supported
- Control who gets to post via email
- Set defaults for category, status, post format, post type and tags.
- Set title, category, status, post format, post type, date, comment control and tags in email to override defaults.
- Specify post excerpt (including excerpt only images).
- Use plain text or HTML version of email.
- Remove headers and footers from email (useful for posting from a mailing list).
- Optionally send emails on post success/failure.
- Control the types of attachments that are allowed by file name (wildcards allowed) and MIME type.
- Optionally make the first image the featured image.
- Gallery support.
- Control image placement with plain text email.
- Templates for images so they look the way you want.
- Templates for videos.
- Templates for audio files.
- Templates for other attachments.
- Email replies become comments.
Developers
- Several filter hooks available for custom processing of emails.
- More developer info at http://postieplugin.com/extending/
Usage
Please visit our site at http://postieplugin.com/
Screenshots
Postie server options 
Postie user options 
Postie message options 
More message options 
Even more message options 
Image options 
Video and Audio options 
Attachment options
Installation
- Install Postie either via the WordPress.org plugin directory, or by uploading the files to your server.
- Activate Postie through the Plugins menu in WordPress.
- Configure the plugin by going to the Postie menu that appears in your admin menu.
- Make sure you enter the mailserver information correctly, including the type of connection and the port number.
- More information can be found at http://postieplugin.com/
FAQ
Please visit our FAQ page at http://postieplugin.com/faq/
Reviews
May 6, 2025
Thank you for this amazing plugin, I just setup with gmail and app password took 10 minutes and it worked the first time, very impressed!!
March 18, 2025
I’m using Postie since 2016 and WOW it works without any issues, i posted over 25000 articles up to date.
Congratulations for your work.
I hope the “This plugin hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress.” is just cause there’s no issues or updates to send out.
March 2, 2024
1 reply
Awesome, I have been looking for a plugin that can post from email.
July 5, 2023
Works great for me and I really love it! Helps when I’m at home where there’s poor cell signal. I can compose posts from my phone and put them in email outbox. When I drive for errands, I wouldn’t have time to blog, but there go the posts.
Thanks SO MUCH for your hard work in making this available and keeping updated.
June 7, 2023
1 reply
A plugin that does what it says. Great job!
March 31, 2023
1 reply
Totally easy and rock solid. Thumbs up!
Contributors & Developers
“Postie” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
Contributors
“Postie” has been translated into 3 locales. Thank you to the translators for their contributions.
Translate “Postie” into your language.
Interested in development?
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Changelog
1.9.73 (2025-09-09)
- Improved error handling for action/filter calls
1.9.72 (2025-09-08)
- Add error handling to action/filter calls
1.9.71 (2025-08-25)
- address security issue with custom templates
1.9.70 (2025-07-14)
- Additional clarification of draft status with unknown emails
- General improvements
1.9.69 (2024-05-08)
- Additional logging
- Make sure default user is set if no user is found
1.9.68 (2023-12-11)
- Fix email subject and body of confirmation email if there are HTML entities in the blog name.
1.9.67 (2023-11-20)
- Add option to suppress postie div
1.9.66 (2023-11-06)
- Fix deprecation message for PHP 8.2
- Prevent post notification email if post was trashed
1.9.65 (2023-01-30)
- remove calls to uname() as it typically isn’t allowed on hosting platforms.
1.9.64 (2023-01-24)
- fix for strange issue with PHP 8.1
1.9.63 (2022-12-29)
- update simple_html_dom
- update requirements (WP5.6/PHP7.0)
1.9.62 (2022-09-21)
- Timezone fix from https://wordpress.org/support/users/glenstewart/
- Add translation support to more strings
1.9.61 (2022-06-24)
- Fix warning when MIME type is not recognized.
1.9.60 (2022-04-13)
- Add translatable strings to email notification
1.9.59 (2022-01-02)
- fix surrounding div with postie-post class name for plain text messages
1.9.58 (2021-12-27)
- deal with possibility of no post formats (reported by @rogerlos)
- add surrounding div with postie-post class name for CSS rules for themes.
1.9.57 (2021-09-07)
- if any attachment doesn’t have a file extension use the secondary mime type
1.9.56 (2021-08-06)
- remove Allow HTML In Mail Body from settings as it didn’t do anything
- add Allow Duplicate Comments setting to deal with WordPress killing the import
- fix issue where unknown email was leaving tmppost, now creates draft message
- add setting to disable legacy commands
1.9.55 (2021-03-09)
- Add post id to action postie_comment_after
- remove Create Alternate Image Sizes from settings as it didn’t do anything
- Add compatibility for WordPress 5.7
1.9.54 (2020-10-18)
- Add compatibility for WordPress 5.5
1.9.53 (2020-06-05)
- Add postie_subject filter
1.9.52 (2020-05-19)
- Fix issue with detecting categories when there are multiple colons in the subject line
1.9.51 (2020-05-08)
- remove ob_end_flush from log_onscreen()
1.9.50 (2020-04-21)
- Add more wp_insert_post failure logging
1.9.49 (2020-04-19)
- Add more wp_insert_post failure logging
1.9.48 (2020-04-18)
- Add more wp_insert_post failure logging
1.9.47 (2020-04-16)
- Add wp_insert_post failure logging
1.9.46 (2020-04-11)
- escape IMAP password
- fix logging in get_parent_postid
- ensure any modification by shortcode are retained
1.9.45 (2020-03-29)
- Fix email notification bug
1.9.44 (2020-03-23)
- refactoring to separate email fetch from email processing
- add postie_register_shortcode_pre action for registering Postie shortcodes
1.9.43 (2020-02-18)
- Begin migration of shortcode support into Postie main
1.9.42 (2020-02-18)
- Fix: signature stripping in html emails was failing sometimes
1.9.41 (2020-02-01)
- Fix: different regex approach for html vs plain
- Only process 1 email at a time