Using MarkdownMail With Posterous

Posterous is a popular blogging platform that supports emailing in posts using Markdown syntax. Using MarkdownMail, creating new posts on your iPhone or iPad has never been easier. Here's how:

  1. Write your post in MarkdownMail using Markdown syntax.
  2. Preview the post to ensure that the formatting is correct and looks good.
  3. Tap the action button and subsequently "Email Markdown"
  4. Set the to: field to "[email protected]".
  5. Set the subject to be the post title.
  6. Send!

Using MarkdownMail With Tumblr

Tumblr also supports emailing Markdown formatted posts to your blog. Here's how:

  1. Go to your Goodies page on the Tumblr dashboard and get your private email-to-post address
  2. (Optional) Create a new Tumblr contact in your Address Book and set its email address to the email-to-post address
  3. Write your post in MarkdownMail using Markdown syntax.
  4. Preview the post to ensure that the formatting is correct and looks good.
  5. Tap the action button and subsequently "Email Markdown"
  6. Set the to: field to your email-to-post address from step 1.
  7. Set the subject to be the "!m Post Title" (replacing Post Title with the actual title. The !m lets Tumblr know you are sending in a Markdown post, so be sure to leave it in.
  8. Send!