(posting from Windows Live Writer now)

So my last post was a test for the Telligent BlogMailr service... looks like using it for most posts won't work out so well on dasBlog. I can see how it might work for "quick update" style posts... but I don't post frequently enough for that to be of much use.

So just in case someone comes across this wondering about using it with dasBlog, here's what I found (clicking the image to the right shows the original message sent from Outlook 2007):

• Inline styles didn't come through (some of the words in the post were italicized and bolded).
• Inline graphics didn't come through (there was a small, right-aligned logo in the email I sent).
• Binary attachments get munged (rather than the attachment I sent, it posted with an attachment to a winmail.dat file). I removed that in the post below.
• I didn't receive an email telling me that anything had been posted.
• Links get posted showing the URL in the body of the post, rather than an anchor tag on the selected text.
• It also just occurred to me that there's no good way to use blog categories via email posts.

Overall, I think it's a very cool idea... and I can see keeping the free account open for the odd "quick and dirty" post. I'm sure bloggers who post frequently with "here's what's happening right now" style posts will find it very convenient. It's probably not something I'll use a whole lot, though.