[webdevlion]

Hi, congrats on launching! I can see that this project will be giving quite a few companies a run for their money!

I was curious about your email-as-a-CMS solution. How does it work? Did you take inspiration from an existing project that does this?

I am aware of how Amazon uses something similar to allow people to email PDFs to their Kindle devices. But I am very interested in how you got your solution to work.

Cheers! And thank you!

[SkyLinx]

Hi! And thanks a lot for the nice comments! :)

To be honest I borrowed the idea of publishing via email from Hey World. That platform is too minimal but it's nice that you can post also by sending an email, so I implemented this feature in DynaBlogger right away because I think people might like it :) The way it works is very simple. Each blog gets a unique email address, you or another user with access to the blog sends an email to that address and the post is published immediately. Images and code blocks are supported. The format is expected to be Markdown, so it's best to send the email as plain text to avoid complications depending on the email client. For now the editor in the app is Rich Text only but I am planning to add Markdown there too if I see it requested. :)

Thanks again for the nice feedback!

[webdevlion]

Thank you so much for the information!

Did you implement the email feature in DynaBlogger from scratch?

I have been on the look-out for open-source projects that do email-as-a-CMS for a long time. I build websites and blogs for companies and individuals, and any CMS that I include (other than self-hosted Ghost) is very harsh on the content teams of these companies.

They are non-technical people who don't understand frontmatter and markdown. Email looks like the perfect publishing medium for this demographic.

Can you give me some direction on how I can build myself an email-CMS solution similar to what you have implemented in DybaBlogger? Thanks!

[SkyLinx]

Sure! DynaBlogger is a Rails app, so I could use some built in support for this called ActionMailbox. It's pretty simple really and it supports various email services. I use Postmark for this :)

[webdevlion]

Perfect! You have given me enough information to get started.

Thank you! And all the best for DynaBlogger!! :)