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Set-up your mail-to-blogger address

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There is more than one way to create a blog post.

Google Docs isn’t the only way to blog outside of Blogger’s native editor (see Chapter

10); you can also blog via email. Just go to your blog’s email options at Blogger→Settings→Email

and enter your own word next to the “Mail-to-Blogger Address” eld. Check the Publish checkbox

and save the settings, as shown in Figure 10-45. Now you can go to Gmail or whatever email client

you use, and write a new mail to your mail-to-blogger address (such as to ocehacks.secretword@

blogger.com) as pictured in Figure 10-46.

Make your secret word for the mail-to-blogger email address something tough to guess, and change it from

time to time. Otherwise, a malicious person could create new posts on your blog without your permission. You

can think of this custom word as a password, but to be most secure, it’s advisable to not reuse a password you

use elsewhere for this; you should pick something unique.

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Composing a rich text message in Gmail;

the mail subject will turn into the blog post title