Hopefully we'll find another exciting component here in a few days. :)
I will do my best! :-)
By the way: great idea this "fake-posting-thing", great component! When I have done the "post by mail" I will try a "post from RSS-feed" based on this "fake-posting component".

There's a new component called Fake Postings available now showing how to generate a posting from external sources. See:
https://www.opensource-socialnetwork.org/component/view/1993

Make a copy of that component, rename it and adapt the necessary paths and code to your own component.
Remove all that random stuff from the actions and cronjobs files and replace it by your code to read a mail instead.

Hopefully we'll find another exciting component here in a few days. :)

@Zetman: You are right, there is no need for a component. But it would be easier to share if someone else want it.
I would prefer to do this with some lines of "OSSN-functions" inside a component (as in components/OssnWall/actions/wall/post/home.php) and not with mysql-statements on my own.
Update: So far, I am now able to post text to the wall via email. It´s nearly done...

As I can't find even a code skeleton on Github: Is there any progress on this one?

Another question: Why do want to make it a component at all? Because to my understanding the mails need to be "translated" to postings automatically without any admin interaction. And that would mean to have a standalone script, executed by cron let's say every 15 minutes to poll your mailbox and import the mails to your community.

Hello Claus,
this forum isn't really meant to share that large amount of code like yours. Not too seldom the editor is swallowing some special chars and in the end you won't get displayed what you wanted anyway.

I'd suggest to make a copy of a minimal component like HelloWorld or CustomStrings instead, rename it, put it onto Github, store your function in the libraries subdirectory and hope that somebody will interact and add the missing code.

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After a few hours of try and error I only need a code snippet:
- the text I want to publish is stored in, for example, $mailcontent
- the picture is uploaded to /post/photo/xxx/xxx.png

Now I only need some lines that put $mailcontent and the imagepath correctly into the database.