Searching the blogger help community & google searches showed other people have been complaining about the same problem for several years with no solution provided.

So then I added autopost-to-blogger via posterous blog. That solved the “little blue boxes” at blogger since the email goes thru the posterous system first.

BUT THEN when posterous began having all their “Differences in Formatting” & “Text Conversion” issues resulting in headline-only-posts at posterous blog (see my first comment for details), posterous would subsequently post the same derailed headline-only post at blogger.

Total disaster x2.

Also tried Tumblr but their post by email is even worse… creates one long paragraph (removes paragraph breaks) & no photos show up.

I am shocked all these newer greater blogs cannot even handle basic email-posting like the old dinosaur, Yahoogroups, can.

1. Because their blogs are “email specific” rather than “blog name specific” (as most other blog platforms are), if you have several blogs & you add all your email addys to all of your blogs (so you can email to any of your blogs from any of your email addys), their system cannot handle it but will send your emails criss-crossing all over the place to all the wrong blogs. Total disaster. I wasted the last quarter of 2009 trying to make it work & it just wouldn’t. I finally deleted all email addys from all blogs & only re-entered a few separate emails for each blogs (which means I have to go “approve” posts from certain addys first before they will post. A real pain). As far as I am concerned, they built Posterous wrong from the ground up. The foundation is wrong. Blogs should be blog-site specific vs. email specific.

2. If you are a serious email-blogger (vs. web posting), the major flaws still ongoing are:
a. You can only send originally-typed content in emails if you want to be 100% sure they show up.
b. You cannot include in your emails any copied/cut/pasted snips or quotes or paragraphs, etc. that you copied from:
b1. Word docs,
b2. Notes apps,
b3. Websites, articles, etc.
b4. “Forwarded” emails, newsletters, etc.
b5. Arrows in your email,
b6. Brackets around quoted text, etc.
If you include any of the above in your email, you may end up with a headline-only post with all body content missing, or with big chunks missing, etc.

Posterous’ official answer to this problem is to only type original text in your email! Sorry, but that doesn’t work for the type of blogging/sharing that I do. :-/

The problem has grown worse since Spring of 2010. Emails with assorted external content copied/pasted into emails previously posted correctly. I do not know what changed but I’ve got dozens of aborted disaster headline-only posts across my several blogs over the past few months. Very frustrating.

Their explanation is that their system cannot as yet handle:
1. Differences in Formatting;
2. Text Conversions.

Yet strangely enough, the antiquated Yahoogroups (which I have used since 2001 for email groups), has no problem posting copies of the very same emails that I also send to Posterous blogs. Yahoogroups has no problems with “Differences in Formatting” nor “Text Conversions” with whatever you include in your emails. So why does the “newer, better, modern” Posterous have such a problem?

What does Posterous need to be able to handle any type of emailed content? (Not being a techie, I have no idea.) Whatever it is, I hope they get it soon. I have put a year’s worth of effort into email-blogging there & it seems to get worse, not better.

Bottom Line: It depends on your style (email blogger? Or website blogger?) & what the content of your emails will be (originally typed content only? Or external content included?) & whether you want one blog or several with the same email addys registered with all blogs, etc.