email-client

Is there a current or upcoming standard used by a current email client that lets one use Javascript in an email?

I have a system that emails programmatically generated emails hundreds of times daily. They are going to open in outlook which I know will render the HTML differently than IE and disable scripting. But are there any upcoming standards that will allow one to JavaScript-ify their HTML emails? Will it always be to big of a security risk? I...

parsing response end with extended SMTP (ESMTP)

To use an example response from google when sent "EHLO": 250-mx.google.com at your service, [66.501.941.15] 250-SIZE 35651584 250-8BITMIME 250-AUTH LOGIN PLAIN 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES 250 PIPELINING Hex: 32 35 30 2D 6D 78 2E 67 6F 6F 67 6C 65 2E 63 6F 6D 20 61 74 20 79 6F 75 72 20 73 65 72 76 69 63 65 2C 20 5B 39 32 2E 34 32 31 2E 35...

How to do a preview of different browsers/email clients?

Hi I got a task from my boss to do a email previewer for different mails/browsers/clients. How should approach this task? How is such a thing done? EDIT: A tool to see how an email will render in different email clients ...

determine pop/imap server from email address

Is there a way to determine pop or imap server given the email address? I am building an application for non technical users and I dont really want to bother them with asking their imap/pop servers. mail2web.com does this, but I am not sure how. ...

Support email format: plain-text or HTML?

I have to send planned support notification emails on system events (service window, alerts, etc). I see that most of such emails I receive from my vendors are in plain text format. I wonder should I to stick to plain text format as well (with accompanied limitations) or provide HTML based one with better visualization? I am aware of...

How to save image attachment from email using IMAP & PHP?

Hi All, I've successfully written script that connects to my mail server and retrieves the headers and bodies of all new messages. I want to take it one step further to detect if attachment exists (images only), if so, download to server. How to go about this using PHP & IMAP? Thanks in advance ...

How can I tell what the default emailer is

I want to be able to submit an email from an application in response to a user action. Is there a way to detect if the user is using a default emailer. There always seems to be an emailer present (Windows Mail, or outlook express) but is there a way to check if it is actually in use or if the user may be using web based email ...

Why does the IMAP protocol treat the Drafts, Junk and Trash folders differently from user-created folders?

When using IMAP clients to access your email, the Inbox and any other user-created folders are synchronized as a reasonable person (my grandmother) might expect - you add/change/delete content on one device and the change is synchronized to the server and to the other devices. However, IMAP appears to treat the drafts, junk and trash fo...

How do I send emails in Java?

Hey. I currently want to develop a simple program in Java that sends out email. Not just a few emails, but actually a lot (10k+) I have a subscribers list that all agree to it, by the way. Anyway, I cannot send these emails via Gmail or anything like that - They do not allow that many emails to be sent. So the basic question is: How do ...

Webmail client that can open multiple email addresses at once like a desktop client

I've got 5 email domains with multiple email addresses on each domain. Traditional webmail clients only seem to allow you to browse a single account at a time (ie, you log into that account). With over 20 email addresses I need to monitor, this is obviously a major time sink. Is there a (preferably OSS, unix-based) webmail client that s...

Help on how facebook reply by mail works

We are working on a school project and we need to reply to an email and keep just the last message without the historic of the conversation. It's something like what Facebook did for the reply to comments via email : http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=206480947130 Our problem is to keep the last message without the signature or any...

Inbox messages store in database or via Real Email System?

For a user control panel that features a private message inbox, is it better to serve the private messages via a "real" email server or just store the messages in the database? ...

Displaying emails in a JTable (Java Swing)

Hi I'm new to all this. I have been trying to display fetched emails in a JTable using the JavaMail add-on. However when I ask the program to set the value it never does. I have been working in NetBeans if that is any help? the fetchMail class finds all may on a server. The gui class is used to display all emails in a table as well as cr...

Debugging Actionmailer

I have actionmailer set up. Emails are not being sent, and no errors. Where can I start my search to debug this? class Notifier < ActionMailer::Base default_url_options[:host] = APP_DOMAIN def email_blast(user, subject, message) subject subject from NOTIFIER_EMAIL recipients user.email sent_on Time.zone.now body :user => user.first_n...

php mail script to sync gmail into my application

I can write php script to send mail to all other service provider can we write any php script which can sync my gmail inbox to my web page? ...

Process RECEIVED email attatchment with PHP.

Hi All, I have a php script that will an catch email passed to it and process it. #!/usr/local/bin/php -q <?php while (!feof(STDIN)) {$s .= fgets(STDIN);} // Now do some work on the email source in $s. ?> This works fine. My question is how to save an attachment into the file system from the source. For example, if I isolate the se...

what in/out bound mail system to use ? hosted or not ?

hi all I have a ruby / rails application that integrates in and outgoing email directly into the app. The app is going to be running on multiple domains each with posible many users sending and recieving email. I have looked into sendgrid, mailchimp and mad mimi as hosted services and also looked to create my own email server. There ...

How to create a functionality which will show how the html mail would appear in differrent mail clients?

Hi, I am building an email marketing application, and in that I want to provide a functionality for the user to view his html mails in different mail clients. How can I create this? Please help. ...

Parsing email messages

I want to extract the body of some email messages. Trouble is the body sometimes contains quoted text which seems to come in different formats. Am I right to think there is no standard when it comes to quoting text in emails? Anyway, any tips on extracting just the message without other things like quoted text, the original sender, the ...

Are there any web based IMAP clients out there

I would love to be able to stop using application based email clients and move completely to the web for my email. The problem is the webmail clients for my job suck compared to Gmail. Is there something out there that would act as an imap client for multiple accounts that are a little more intuitive than the standard webmail clients out...