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July 28, 2008

Post an image gallery by emailing a zip file

Want an image gallery out of that folder of images on your desktop? Just turn the folder into a zip and email it to Posterous. If we get a zip file that contains multiple images (and only images), we'll turn the images into a gallery and provide a download link to your original zip file. Easy!

Tip: On a Mac you can turn files or folders into a zip by right clicking on them and selecting "compress"

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Posted by Sachin Agarwal 

Comments (18)

Jul 28, 2008
anthony marco said...
very nice... of course now you'll have people clamoring for rar, 7z, etc.
Jul 28, 2008
Stephanie Lim said...
hallelujah! No more praying that my gmail doesn't crash before my 9 pictures get sent.

Is there a limit to the # of pictures we can send?

Jul 28, 2008
Sachin Agarwal said...
There's no limit to how many pictures we'll take, but your email provider may limit the size of your email. At a fairly large image size I've been able to send 50 or more. Try it out and let me know if you have any problems.
Jul 29, 2008
Ivan Lanin said...
Cool. I can even post directly to my flickr :) Another breakthrough feature of posterous!
Jul 29, 2008
Jenna.Dee Detro said...
I'm doing something wrong (or have included too many images). Sending the zipped file to flickr@posterous.com posted only my text. Sending the zipped file to post@posterous.com also posted only my text.

Attaching the photographs the old fashioned way got that BEAUTIFUL and totally simple image gallery.

Is 21 a huge number of photographs to upload? The zipped folder is "only" 3.4MB.

Jul 29, 2008
Sachin Agarwal said...
Thanks for the note! We found an issue in decoding some zip files that was preventing them from showing up as galleries. This should be fixed now. Let me know if you have anymore problems. Thanks!
Jul 29, 2008
Jenna.Dee Detro said...
Ya'll are stinkin' awesome.
Aug 01, 2008
John Johnston said...
Great, just posted 44 photos, 5mb zip file without any problem.
Aug 06, 2008
Barbara said...
You guys are amazing...every time I come back to Posterous it's exponentially...well, better.

One note: to create a zipped file/folder on a Mac you right-click (or control-click) and choose "Create Archive of..."

Aug 10, 2008
Илья Илембитов said...
Is this feature going to be available for other formats, too? Like, for mp3 or other multimedia?
Nov 19, 2008
Aviraj Saluja said...
so this doesn't work for .RARs?
Nov 28, 2008
warwick said...
How
Aug 14, 2009
y ho said...
I really wish I knew this when I was uploading pics in Japan and watching it crash at 4 photos... Haha. Sweet.
Oct 01, 2009
Boucher Family said...
Is there a way to organize galleries? I.e. if I am forced to break up my pictures (send them in separate emails) can I merge them back together so that a trip can be a single gallery?
Oct 19, 2009
no name said...
It doesn't work for me. I used the Windows XP bult-in zipper, and zipped only images, but no gallery. help! :( It's about 2MB.
http://stikyo.posterous.com/
Oct 19, 2009
no name said...
OK, It's working now!! Maybe bad filenames... THX Posterous!!
Nov 09, 2009
ecaloshay said...
Er... how do you -just- post the archive without it being turned into a gallery?
Nov 09, 2009
no name said...
write this line to the title of your e-mail: ((nogallery))

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