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.NET 2.0: Sending email to a distribution group

Good day, We just converted our web application .NET 1.1 to .NET 2.0. We have a major problem sending emails. We are using distribution group (eg: WebDeveloppersGroup) to send emails to all the developpers in the company. These groups don't end with '@ something.com'. These groups are created in Lotus Notes, and we cannot access all ...

What is the best way to send an email from a batch file?

I have a nightly batch job that can tell if it has failed. I want it to send me an email, possibly with an attachment when it does. How can I send an email from a Windows Batch (.bat) file? ...

What is the best Perl module for sending email?

For years I've been piping out to sendmail in my Perl programs to send email, but I have the strong sense I ought to use a module. It would make me feel less dirty. Care to recommend me one module over the others, with reasons why? Thanks in advance! ...

How to handle UTF-8 email headers (like Subject:) using Ruby?

I'm an email n00b but I am working on an application that sends HTML email with Unicode characters (as my friend noted "enjoy encoding hell"). The Subject: header comes from user input and therefore may contain Unicode characters. Some mail clients (like GMail and Outlook 2007) are OK with this, but from my reading it seems the right wa...

A simple way to send mails from a C application on Unix

I am designing a system which will at some point require to send email notifications. So I am looking for a simple way to do this. Some background: the system will be running on Linux platform, there will be a working SMTP server somewhere on the network, the operator will configure its address, server credentials if required and a list ...

How to send an email from a webpage/webform?

What techniques are available for sending an email via a webpage or a form on a webpage? I've got some background idea that you POST the form data to a script but I've don't really know what a cgi script is (I'd love to learn if this is the suggested method!) or what the current practice is. This is just to provide some way for users ...

Any good documentation/tutorials for PHP's Mailparse pecl extension

I'm looking for guidance on how to use PHP's Mailparse pecl extension. The documentation on the PHP website isn't very helpful. Does anyone have experience with this and care to share a few pointers? ...

absolute vs. relative links?

When creating links for an an html based email, how critical is it to use absolute links? Also, What are the benefits in using relative links in general? ...

Simple Form in an email...is it possible?

I'm designing an html email for a Holiday Art Market. The request is simply for graphic design, make it pretty-put the date/time etc., but I'm wondering if I can also implement an RSVP form in the email: Are you coming, yes or no? Can this be done in an email, or do I need to redirect to a website? If it can be done, how? Thanks again S...

How to fix the "421 RP-001 The mail server IP connecting to Windows Live Hotmail server has exceeded the rate limit" problem?

We run a large online community in the Netherlands. Because of that we send a lot of mail to the hotmail email addresses of our members. Recently we have noticed that not all mail is reaching our members, because we have hit a certain limit or so it seems. Google doesn't give a solution (yet) but we see a lot of others having the same p...

PHP / Mail Server interaction...

First, this question is assuming that there is a working method for interacting with a Mail Server in this fashion. If it's not, please feel free to let me know. Second, I'm relatively new to working with Mail Servers, so any related reading materials would be greatly appreciated. I'm working on a project that allows the creation of o...

Receive and send emails in python

How can i receive and send email in python? A 'mail server' of sorts. I am looking into making an app that listens to see if it recieves an email addressed to [email protected], and sends an email to the sender. Now, am i able to do this all in python, would it be best to use 3rd party libraries? ...

Plaintext/HTML Email doesn't work in mac mail client.

The code below is the code i am using. It works fine in thunderbird but not in mac mail client (and i assume anything made by microsoft. I currently do not have access to this to test it in). Much as i am aware of the idiosyncrasies of the various mail clients, I am flummoxed by this! It's fairly self explanatory but i am trying to send ...

Mail Client without POP or IMAP

My university refused to allow us to access out mail via POP or IMAP etc so I want to write a GTK based C app that sits in my notifcation area and does the job of a mail client notifier. Because I can't use anything like POP or IMAP, what would be a good way to do it? I guess I could scrape the HTML and look for a tag that is only prese...

How to Build a Secure Send-to-a-Friend Function in PHP?

Can anyone suggest a way, or a link to an example, of building a function in PHP that allows users to send a link via e-mail to multiple friends? ...

Create a html wysiwyg editor for editing email templates

The (web based) software I am working on needs a way for users to be able to customize an email template. I'm familiar with TinyMCE et al. web based wysiwyg editors. However they strive to produce valid (x)html markup, with heavy use of style sheets. All of which won't render nicely in email clients (yes, I'm looking at you.. outlook 20...

Limits you hit when sending lots of email from your server

What kind of practical issues are there concerning sending tons of e-mail from a server? Will the likelihood of that e-mail being received be just the same as if it had been sent from g-mail or a personal e-mail account if I for example just blindly call the mail() function in PHP tens of thousands of times a day? (note: you are not he...

Good way to test email functionality.

Working on an app with notification via e-mail. I'd like to run test with out sending e-mails to production servers and clients. A couple years ago I remember someone bringing down our exchange server with a bad e-mail loop and would prefer to not repeat... Any suggestion for a dev setup? Currently think a simple SMTP server will d...

html email with consideration for Blackberry.

Hi, I'm supporting a system which sends an automatic populated email alert. I've rendered the page using a combination of CSS and html. The alert is sent from a system called Salesforce. My problem is, I've never owned a blackberry, and don't have access to one for testing purposes, but I know the alert looks like crap on it. It seems t...

CDO message: text attachment gets corrupted

I'm creating an email message using CDO object (and VB6, but that doesn't really matter). With New CDO.Message .To = "<address>" .Subject = "Manifest test 8" .Organization = "<company>" .From = "<address>" .Sender = .From With .Configuration .Fields(cdoSendUsingMethod).Value = cdoSendUsingPort ...