After a couple of days of fiddling the automatic email script (pop2blog) works!. It turns out most of the problem was just getting things properly installed, which my hosting company was nice enough do for me!
Also, thanks to all the helpful people in the forums: (here, here, and for Shelia's helpful info that pointed me to the script in the first place. Pseudocron
was also very useful since I don't have shell access to my hosting service
to start a cron job, it seems to work to automatically check things based on
hits to the webpage. Also, thanks to Robert who made some enhancements to the script, I will be looking into trying this version of the script soon!
testing the comment spam system... please ignore
ignore, another comment test!
test3...