I have no idea how many “tumblers” — or is it “tumblrers”? — are using the post by email functionality, but I know it is quite big on another platform ☞ Posterous. In case you don’t know what I’m talking about, you should probably start with the ☞ help section.
While most of the functionality is there, I have found three things that once solved would make the posting by email feature complete.
When you send a post by email it is published right away. This is probably what you want in 90% of the cases. But sometimes you may want to publish it later or you’d like to work on the post a little bit more before posting it. And Tumblr supports both “Drafts” and “Queued posts”, but not when using the email posting feature.
Supporting this feature would be trivial: if you want to have an emailed post saved as “Draft; just include the token (draft) in front of or by the end of the email subject. The same for “Queue”: include the token (queue) in the email subject. That’d be all!
Development effort: I’d speculate it’s close to zero.
When sending a post by email, the body of the email is considered the body of the post. Nothing unexpected so far. But some of us are using email signatures (most of the time these are automatically included so it is quite impossible to remove them) and I’m pretty sure that we don’t want that part to be considered part of the Tumblr post.
The solution is once again trivial: if you want to mark the end of the post include the token !end and nothing beyond that token will be considered. End this sort of token is in alignment with the token used for ☞ Markdown formatting support: !m.
Development effort: I’d speculate once again that’s close to zero.
This is a small bug I have noticed: if you send a “Link” post that has a description, the Tumblr system confuses it with a normal “Text” post. I’d say that this behavior is quite wrong: each time a post starts with a link, then it should be considered by Tumblr as a “Link” even if it contains or not a description.
Development effort: let’s see how quickly can the Tumblr team get it out ;-).
Unfortunately, so far my feedback to Tumblr team remained almost always without a response. Please help me out by voting this post to get Tumblr team’s attention. Thanks!
