Posting via email, and RSS feeds

I tried sending in a test post via email, and it has never shown up. Not published, and not even in the list in draft mode waiting to be published. I sent the email from the email account attached to this blog, and sent it to the email address established in the settings to send posts to for publishing. I'm not sure what the problem is. If anyone out there has experience setting up blogger to accept and publish posts sent in via email, please comment here.

In addition, I have enabled the RSS feed for this blog, and subscribed to my own blog in Bloglines. For some reason, Bloglines never shows that new posts have appeared, but if I click the blog name link, new posts in the feed show up. Why does it not notify me that new posts have been made? It apparently is getting the RSS feed since the posts show up when I click the blog name.