Beautiful. David Davies' assetManager allows me to make a post, and specify an email address when I create the post. It then sends perfectly-formatted HTML mail to the address I entered.

I set up a group for this weblog on Yahoo! groups, to serve as a(n) (admittedly bastardized) listserv type of system, so that when I post in Radio the email gets sent to Yahoo, and then from there onto the members of the list.

Your mileage may vary, but my SMTP server and/or firewall does not allow this type of redirect, so I cannot just enter the Yahoo group email address directly. To work around this, I have set up a recognized email address in my SMTP server to catch and redirect the post from RU to the Yahoo group mail address.

The caveat is that the Yahoo group must that redirector mail's address as a registered "member".

This works for me - thank you David!

I just had another IM chat with Matt Mower, the developer of the excellent liveTopics tool, and he kindly helped me through a problem with the outlines in liveTopics not being rendered to HTML with links.

The problem was:

• There was no #prefs file in the wwwoutlinestopics folder.
• The copied #prefs file had #flDisplayHTMLWedge true in it.

Here's what worked -

• The wwwoutlines #prefs was copied to wwwoutlinestopics.
• wwwoutlinestopics#prefs was edited, and its #flDisplayHTMLWedge value was changed to false.
• The wwwoutlinestopics opml files were deleted.
• In the Radio GUI, Tools menu, the liveTopic's debug menu was used to delete caches and recreate the indexes, then, the admin menu was used to recreate the Table of Contents.

Now, when you click on a topic, the webpage that comes up is rendered correctly, with links. Thanks Matt!

I just had an IM chat with Matt Mower, the developer of the excellent liveTopics tool, and he kindly helped me - the Radio Userland and blog newbie - through getting setup with the topics you see on this blog. If you are on Radio, visit Matt's page and get his tool.

I was getting an error after having installed the tool, and the google macro was not working. Matt said:

Yes I think the error is likely because you do not have a Google API key
installed in Radio.  Assuming that you are comfortable with Radio (or
Frontier) Please follow the instructions at
http://radio.userland.com/googleApi and everything will probably start
working once you have finished step 4.

Then I asked about if liveTopics indexes the stories on the blog, rather than just the entries. His thoughts -

...my advice would be to create a post as a summary of the story and attach the topics to it. ... It's likely that, if they're interested enough to see the summary, they'll click through.

Thanks Matt!

This post was brought to you by mail-to-blog, and David Davies' excellent assetManager tool, which allows you to link your categories to "secret subjects" in mails you send to an extra POP mail account you set up. I set up the account in my mail server, added the secret subject in the mail-to-blog tool, sent a mail and voila -

Drumcorps test

... came right in. If you are a Radio Userland user, get assetManager and add it to your arsenal. http://radio.weblogs.com/0001161/

The Radio OUTLINER is a cool tool, which lets you organize your lists in an OPML file. Short, to the point, and subscribable, this is great for collaboration.

I know it is still a beta, but I'd like to see the ability to put the cursor mid line, and "break" the line by pressing enter. This does not work now.

What I like about it is the ability to subscribe to it. Radio users can subscribe to mine by clicking on the OPML coffee icon on the home page of this weblog. Once you subscribe, view its contents by right-clicking on the RU tray icon, choosing "open radio", and then going to Radio, Outliner.

Enjoy!

Using mail-to-blog, I tested sending a RICH text message from Outlook, via Exchange, to another Exchange-based POP mailbox, which receives OK and goes into the weblog just fine. But, none of the rich text attributes are preserved. See below. In fact, the cr/lf's between the "adsf"'s are not there either.

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Test post - RICH. * asdf * asdf * asdf This is a TEST.

Using mail-to-blog, I tested sending a HTML text message from Outlook, via Exchange, to another Exchange-based POP mailbox, which receives OK and goes into the weblog just fine. However HTML is not preserved. See below.

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Test post - HTML. Aqua back. _____ * asdf * asdf * asdf This is a TEST

I tried adding Radio categories in Japanese, and the long and short is - it does not work. More here.