I had been trying to build a Radio tool that would allow me to direct e-mail posts to specific categories–partly for my own use, and partly to reduce my workload supporting my kids' school website, which I'm driving with Radio off my desktop.

The school just got their broadband connection up, and most of the teachers have internet mail accounts of their own (though for some bizarre reason they're using Novell GroupWise internally for mail, and haven't hooked it up to Internet mail yet).

So I tried hacking UserTalk, borrowing from the mail-to-blog code built into Radio and fiddling with some code that David Davies had cooked up to do short message service blogging. I finally got the script to compile, sent off a test message, and…

The first post corrupted WeblogData, creating an empty post that caused my desktop homepage to read. “[Macro error: “text” not defined]”. Whoops, time to flush that script.

Then David, whom I'd asked for some hints, earns himself some major karma points –he sends me a completed script, ready to install–and he posted it on his blog for good measure. I loaded it, tested it…and problem solved! (Though I still have to figure out what I screwed up in my code…)

David, you're a gentleman and a scholar. Now all I have to do is teach Catholic school teachers how to format an e-mail properly.