One of my members consistently gets weird characters in her post-by-email posts.
“=C2=A0” appears numerous times in every message (without the double quotes). Any idea why, and how to fix it?
The problem is going to be with the email client she uses to compose her replies. Sadly, and annoyingly, what we have found is that some clients like to include special codes and delimiters that, basically, only they understand! Trying to catch them all – without using every single email client there is available! – is impossible. At the moment we have taken the line that when new ones show up – like these – we will try and deal with them.
However, what we really need is a copy of the raw email post before it is processed which is not so easy. We actually have a user who is currently adding logging facilities to the PBE and that will enable us to capture the raw content for analysis. I will find out what progress he is making. meanwhile perhaps you could find out from the user in question what email client they are using…
Looks like she’s using Mozilla Thunderbird. She sent a raw email file to me (copied below), but now suddenly post-by-email is no longer working at all 
so I can’t tell you what this would have looked like had it actually posted…
Any ideas why post-by-email would suddenly stop??
I did upgrade to 5.2.6. Is there a conflict there?
Thanks,
Melissa
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No conflict in 5.2.6… this is a post by email, for example… there was only two very minor code changes in 5.2.6 – one to plug a potential XSS whole in display name, two an auth improvement to drastically reduce # of queries…
check forum – toolbox – cron inspector and make sure the post by email cron task is running…
Finally had time to log on and look in Forum > Toolbox > CRON inspector
Unfortunately, I don’t know what to look for. How can I tell if the post by email cron task is running?
I see this in the list of CRON Schedules:
Name Description Interval
sp_emailpost_interval SP Post by Email Interval 300
I do NOT see sp_emailpost_interval listed in the Active CRON List below, so I’m assuming that means it is NOT running.
How do I make it run???
Thanks,
Melissa
I tried adding a CRON using the info above in the Add CRON fields. I also tried running a CRON by copying and pasting the hook and clicking Update Cron.
So far I do not see that this has affected anything.
Nobody seems to know why but the WP CRON system can sometimes be a little shaky in that it can lose a task for no apparent reason. Generally it is stable but just every now and then…
if it is no longer in the scheduled list as you suggest then the easiest way to get it back is to deactivate (NOT uninstall) the PBE SP plugin and then reactivate it. That should put it back into the list.
Hopefully one day the WP team will solve this one.
Aha! That did put it back on the list!
Crossing fingers that it’s actually working again…
One day… Still – you know what to do if it happens again, We have never been able to track why it sometimes happens. It can be stable for months and then one day one will get lost. It is a global issue… happens to us as well.