As I continue to read past threads for questions you ask in solving PBE problems, it is likely relevant for you to know that I do use the Mandrill Email Plugin (called wpMandrill) for WordPress to handle email.  It seems to be setup properly as there are emails going in both directions from the website.

That should have no effect – at least in theory.

Would you be up to make a small code edit so we can drill down to a finer error message?

Yeah sure. If you can give me fairly detailed instructions.

Regards,

Kevan McCormack

——– Original message ——– From: “Simple:Press Support” Date: 06/20/2013 2:59 PM (GMT-06:00) To: Kevan McCormack Subject: Forum Post – Simple:Press: [Post By Email – Limited number of replies]

Excellent…

The file you need is in the pbe plugin – /library/sp-email-post-process.php

Around line 100 you should find the start of the function sp_emailpost_save() and towards the end of that function you will find the line of code:

$log['eLog']=__('Failed Post Data Validation', 'sp-pbe');

and I am suggesting changing this to:

$log['eLog']=$p->message;

which, actually, I will consider possibly making a permanent change.

next time you try a PBE that fails we should get a more helpful message in the email log.

Well making that change was certainly more informative in the email logs…Now the message is:

“No topic post has been entered and post cannot be saved”

Kevan McCormack Metropolitan Capital Advisors, Ltd. Senior Director Office: (972) 267-0600 ext. 6598 Cell: (214) 476-6134 Fax: (972) 267-0606 Address: 18111 Preston Road, Suite 650 Dallas, Texas 75252 (click for Google map) www.metcapital.com www.youtube.com/MetCapitalAdvisors  

—–Original Message—– From: Simple:Press Support [mailto:support@simple-press.com] Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2013 3:25 PM To: Kevan McCormack Subject: Forum Post – Simple:Press: [Post By Email – Limited number of replies]

So – for reasons currently unknown, the PBE code is reading the sent email but, after normal filters etc., finding that the actual post content is empty.

All I can suggest is that you reply to this forum post by PBE. That you use the account you are having problems sending from. And that you ONLY USE content that you might use on your own site – i.e., simulate a normal reply to your own forum. If it gets published here then that does suggest a local site issue which at least should help focus where to look.

Contact John Doe at 214-555-5555.

Kevan McCormack Metropolitan Capital Advisors, Ltd. Senior Director Office: (972) 267-0600 ext. 6598 Cell: (214) 476-6134 Fax: (972) 267-0606 Address: 18111 Preston Road, Suite 650 Dallas, Texas 75252 (click for Google map) www.metcapital.com www.youtube.com/MetCapitalAdvisors  

—–Original Message—– From: Simple:Press Support [mailto:support@simple-press.com] Sent: Friday, June 21, 2013 8:48 AM To: Kevan McCormack Subject: Forum Post – Simple:Press: [Post By Email – Limited number of replies]

Test #4 from Metcapital Email.

Kevan McCormack Metropolitan Capital Advisors, Ltd. Senior Director Office: (972) 267-0600 ext. 6598 Cell: (214) 476-6134 Fax: (972) 267-0606 Address: 18111 Preston Road, Suite 650 Dallas, Texas 75252 (click for Google map) www.metcapital.com www.youtube.com/MetCapitalAdvisors  

—–Original Message—– From: Simple:Press Support [mailto:support@simple-press.com] Sent: Friday, June 21, 2013 8:48 AM To: Kevan McCormack Subject: Forum Post – Simple:Press: [Post By Email – Limited number of replies]

Contact Joe at his office line.

Test #4 with erasing to line below.

OK.  I sent 4 reply emails from the account that is giving me trouble.  If you looked at the screenshot of the email log I posted, you will also notice that Reply PBE from Corporate email addresses are what tend to fail (from the data I have so far).

There were two sent without erasing anything.  Then I sent 2 emails erasing everything above the line which advises you to “insert your text above this line”

It looks like ALL 4 made it through.

So either you need changes made to the code since the last update (awaiting WP 3.6 to drop before we can release). Or – you have something at work on your site that is adding filters in some way and changing the text content. Not sure what else it might be…