Worth adding that in your profile you can set a second email address for post by emailll

I saw that in my Profile settings.  Thanks.  

I’m getting log error: “Flood control exceeded, please slow down – Post cannot be saved yet” which is obviously because I’m posting to many at a time.  I sent one, then another then another, etc.  But will it eventually catch up or will those posts not make it to the forum?  And do you know what the limit is per cycle?  Meaning, I set it to check every 3 minutes (180 seconds), how many posts can be grabbed at each 3 minute cycle?  

Also, is 3 minutes too fast?  I saw the default was 30 minutes.  If there’s a cycle limit, then 30 minutes could be too long (if multiple people post during that period).  

I guess I’m asking,

“What is a good number of seconds per cycle?” and

“Will the Topics that got stopped due to Flood Control being exceeded make it to the Forum?” and

“Regarding WP Crown (cron?): does that mean, if nobody is on the site (say at night) then the post wont get added? or it won’t get added until someone goes to the site?  Does that affect subscription emails?”

Thanks, 

Joe

Interesting question.. Not sure we have thought about flood control in regards to post by email… We will discuss the here…

3 minutes is fast but fine for checking email? How are you planning to use this? As primary means of posting?

As SP admin, you shouldn’t be subject to flood control…  And you can generally disable it too… Just set the value to zero for flood control time..

Oh, no.. Posts stopped by flood control are gone for good… If they were spam, wouldn’t do much to just delay…

Good points. This plugin will be used by the administrator to reply to people’s questions. We won’t be publishing the email addresses, so new topics will be done only by visitors to the site. Replies by the admin by forum and email.

In this case, 3 mins should be more than fine? but did you say setting it to 0 would be useful?

No… I said changing the flood control to 0 would disable the flood control…

I do need to pick Mr Papa up on one point he made above:

at the top of the section of the panel where these settings are is a red box with some text… what does it say?  make sure you are using pop3 if it says imap is not available…

I keep trying to hammer this home and it is explained in detail in the codex article but the connection to the mail server MUST use POP3 protocol. This has absolutely NOTHING to do with using php IMAP. The port and method must be POP3 and the email server has to accept POIP3 requests.

Getting the ‘permissions’ error in the email log does mean that the connection was made but that the sender of the email reply failed to meet the permissions set up on the forum. As Mr Papa said – they do need to have the ability to reply by email and – optionally – create new topics by email. So these do need turning on for those users you wish to allow to use this feature.