Cannot get Remote Publishing to connect to server
By Gordon Venters on Wednesday, 25 February 2015
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Hi
My hosting provider has confirmed wget is supported and that the cron job is correctly set up to enable easyblog to collect blog posts from my e-mail account. However the test function on the easyblog back end Remote Publishing fails with IMAP broken server connection message.

Running the cron job http://www.clairemesser.com/index.php?option=com_easyblog&task=cronfeed in a browser gives the result: No item migrated from feed "" ()

My hosting provider says there must an incorrect setting in the easyblog back end - can you please advise?
Thanks Nick

Great fix - looks 100% consistent now.

The only remaining issue I have is with blog images stretching . I found another post about this and followed the advice to add a custom css file in the JA-Sugite template and this resolved images being stretched to full page width but having the wrong aspect ratio. However, I note that the blogs posted from Blogsy have scaled up the Blogsy icon to full page width which, of course, I don't want to happen. You can see this now in the test blog posts on the site (from blog on the main menu). Could you please advise on how best to manage blog images in easyblog so that they maintain their original aspect ratio and size?

Thanks
Gordon Venters
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Sunday, 01 March 2015 09:15
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Hello Gordon,

The correct URL for a cron url should be accessed at http://www.clairemesser.com/index.php?option=com_easyblog&task=cron . However, when I tried to access it, it says there are no unseen emails. Did you setup the email correctly? I can't verify this because the login credentials provided here isn't working for the site
Mark
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Wednesday, 25 February 2015 10:24
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Thanks, I got this working now with your cron url and can now retrieve e-mails. I note that the email blog post is formatted differently from the blog posts created directly on the site or remotely using Blogsy that use the Joomlart easyblog theme supplied with the JA-Sugite template. Could you please advise how I can style the Remote Publishing email blog posts to look consistent with the others. i.e. Large date box on left side etc.

Thanks
Gordon Venters
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Thursday, 26 February 2015 07:19
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Hello Gordon,

I'm sorry but I believe the email template is the same whether you post the blog directly from the site or through Remote Publishing. Can you reprovide the access to your backend and FTP so I can have a better look on the email notification because I can't access your backend.
Nik Faris
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Thursday, 26 February 2015 10:26
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Hi, backend login details below
Gordon Venters
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Friday, 27 February 2015 03:46
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Hello Gordon,

Can you provide us with the FTP access please? I have just tested the remote publishing via email and the issue is probably because Joomlart did not style the "email" posts. We actually have a custom template for posts that are submitted via email as this would allow you to customize the layout that you want.
Mark
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Friday, 27 February 2015 23:21
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Hi Mark

I set up an ftp account for you, login details supplied in the site details tab below...

regards
Gordon
Gordon Venters
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Saturday, 28 February 2015 03:46
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Hello Gordon,

I've added these files to your ja_sugite theme folder:
blog.item.email.php
blog.read.email.php

so that Easyblog will use this theme instead for the email post. Please have a look.
Nik Faris
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Saturday, 28 February 2015 23:22
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Hello Gordon,

I am really sorry for the delay of this reply as it is a weekend for us here. I am not really what css codes has been added by you but if you add the block of css codes below into your template's css file, this ensures that the width of the image is maintained as it is,



body #ezblog-body .blog-text img, 

body #ezblog-body .blog-content img {

  width: auto !important;

}
Mark
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Sunday, 01 March 2015 15:25
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Hi Mark

This worked really well for me. Great support and thanks for your weekend work :-)

Gordon
Gordon Venters
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Sunday, 01 March 2015 21:00
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Thanks for updating Gordon, glad that your issues are resolved now
Mark
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Sunday, 01 March 2015 21:05
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