The best way to make this work is to use the Jetpack plugin, and enable the post-by-email feature.
That gives you an e-mail address where anything it receives is published as a blog post.
However, I found I couldn’t get it to work until I switched from ithemes security to wordfence. Apparently, it’s a known problem: ithemes security blocks xmlrpc, so post-by-email isn’t available..
Worth knowing.
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