For a change, today I won’t describe how I did something but how I did not.
I had I mind to use tumblr with a daily automated post of a picture. I devised it would be nice if a daily cronjob on my local server was updating a git directory and then post the first image in the queue.
First, I found out that tumblr refuses to handle mail sent directly by mutt and the local server smtp. So I then tried having mutt sending the mail using gmail authenticated smtp. I did not work either. But it works fine to any other recipient. And it works if directly sent with gmail web interface. We’ve made it incredibly easy to post from your desktop or mobile phone. Just send an email to the custom email address for the blog you’d like to publish to they claimed. Go figure, that probably something they implied by the confusing sentence Send posts directly to your mobile posting email address. You cannot email another email address and then forward the email from there. I understand spam is an issue they have to care about, but how comes that even gmail authentication isn’t proof enough of goodwill?
Anyway I end up with a non working script for the simple task of sending a mail.