I’ve got a moblog setup to receive an email with data for custom fields which is generated by a web form. Here’s the data generated:

The “$FTG” variables are substituted by user data. (This is a script generated by FormsToGo.)

This model/process has worked flawlessly for about two years, but recently started failing by losing data submitted for custom fields. The only custom field data that is processed is the $FTGdescription field, which is a test area type (as opposed to a text field).

Ideas? Suggestions?

I’ve figured out the reason for this failure—I had switched the fields’ type to Input. The EE documentation clearly states that only Text Area fields can be specified and overridden by a submitted email. My bad.

I do have another question now, though: Is there any way to recover email that has been processed by the moblog module? I have hundreds of entries without data now!

What version and build are you on? Did it fail all of a sudden, or can you think of something to trigger it (new host, upgraded EE, etc)? Nevermind.

No, I don’t think there’s a way: mail get sent to the specified account, is being processed and then deleted. Perhaps you have better luck with the “sent” mail?

Good suggestion.

I know nothing about the PHP mail() function—does it save sent items somewhere?

Ah, I didn’t know where your mail was coming from (might have been a regular mail program, for all we know)—No, I don’t think PHP saves outgoing mail, either. Sorry for not having better news.