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This is a very basic set of notes to help get an initial posting by email setup configured.

First setup [[TheSchwartz_Setup|TheSchwartz]] - incoming email is queued by <tt>incoming-email-inject.pl</tt> and then handled by the <tt>incoming-email</tt> worker.

Next you need to arrange for email to <tt>$LJ::EMAIL_POST_DOMAIN</tt> (normally <tt>post.your.dw.domain</tt>, configurable in <tt>etc/config.pl</tt>) to be piped into <tt>~/bin/incoming-email-inject.pl</tt>. In my case I made all mail for that domain go to the dw user and then created a <tt>~/.forward</tt> that just contained 

 | /home/dw/bin/incoming-mail-inject.pl

You'll need to open up <tt>~/bin/incoming-email-inject.pl</tt> in your editor; near the top there's a section that looks like:

 BEGIN {
     $ENV{LJHOME} ||= "/home/lj";
 }

Make sure this points to your Dreamwidth user home directory - in my case I changed it to <tt>/home/dw</tt>.

The default workers config doesn't process incoming mail; you'll need to add:

     incoming-email: 1

under the "all:" section and then run <tt>bin/worker-manager</tt> which will kick off all the configured workers (and then background itself - if you kill the worker-manager process it will clean up all the workers it's started). Note that this will consume a reasonable amount of resources (especially memory). If you are manually testing your email setup you might find it easier to manually run <tt>bin/worker/incoming-email</tt> (which will stay running in the foreground).

You should then be able to configure your DW account with a source email address and PIN, email &lt;username&gt;+&lt;pin&gt;@post.your.dw.domain from that address and see your email appear as a post on your journal.