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How can I migrate email functionality from ASP Classic to ASP.NET?

I previously used CDO.Message and CDO.Configuration in ASP Classic to create HTML emails which was VERY simple to do. In .NET, it appears that you have to give the System.Net.Mail.Message object an HTML string for the content and then somehow embed the required images. Is there an easy way to do this in .NET? I'm pretty new to .NET MVC a...

Procmail Forward script to forward emails from one domain to the other

I am trying to write a procmail forward script, which will forward all the mails received at mydomain.com to mydomain.NET. To be more clear, if mail is to:[email protected], it should forward to: [email protected]. Like this it should forward for all corresponding emails: How Can I do this? ...

regex for email validation

I have written the regex below for a really simple email validation. I plan to send a confirmation link. /.*@[a-z0-9.-]*/i I would, however, like to enhance it from the current state because a string like this does not yield the desired result: test ,[email protected], test The "test ," portion is undesirably includ...

How can I send an email from Java that will auto-expire in Outlook?

I am familiar with sending email from Java programs. Is it possible to configure the email so that Outlook will recognize that it should expire at a certain time? ...

SmtpClient sends email to junk

I tried to send email from c# using SmtpClient.Send() but it always goes to the junk box. It works fine if I send it from Outlook. Is there anyway to solve this? Someone told me to modify the email header but I don't know how. Thanks in advance. Here is my code SmtpClient client = new SmtpClient(); client.Host = "smtp.server.com"; clien...

nginx as mail proxy

I am trying to setup nginx as mail proxy. All i want is to let nginx receive the mail and forward it to a script. Is this set possible or should i only use sendmail for that. ...

Specific language to avoid in order to escape spam filters

There are some really good questions already on spam issues. I am planning to launch a service that has the word "bitch" in the service name and the domain name. I am wondering if this word, which is not such a faux pas in today's society, will cause me problems navigating spam filters even if I follow best practices. Related to keywor...

Email Receipt Assurance

Our clients sometimes don't get the emails that we send out. It's a BIG loss. How do I assure that they receive the emails so that if it's not received in the other end, the program can resend it or do something about it. ...

Is there a bulk email plugin for Rails apps?

Does anyone know of a plugin or something that can be used to send bulk emails for a Rails app? Specifically, I'd like to be able to pass an HTML email file to a rake task or something and have it emailed out to everyone who has signed up to my site and checked the "please send me info about XXX" box. I wrote kind of a hacked-together ...

C#: Safely send bug report from a program

I would like my program to email me a bug-report when it fails. Is there any way of doing this... safely? I have found I can use System.Net.Mail MailMessage and SmtpClient and such, but of course, I will have to provide a username and a password to it (unless someone knows of one that doesn't need it?). And putting that in code I find a ...

Intercepting email to add text

Hi, I need to automatically add text to emails sent by users. The text CANNOT be added as a signature in outlook, but has to be added after the users click 'send' in outlook. My company uses Microsoft Exchange Server. Any ideas? Thanks! ...

How to determine the size of an attached file from a IMAP message

Im writing a IMAP mail application running on J2ME. It's my senior project. First, I would like to know that are there any IMAP messages to get the body of message only, not include an attachement? When I send the message to IMAP Server like.. . fetch 20 body[text] The IMAP Server will response like <--BODY PART--> ---MOQ1233897306...

Best way to send email from my web app so it looks like it came from my users account

I'm working on a web application. A user will create an email message that will be sent to another person. I would like the e-mail that gets sent to appear from the user's name and e-mail address of the user on my system. And if they reply to the e-mail then it should go directly to the sender's email address. However I am worried abou...

How to embed images in HTML email on the mail server?

Hi all, How does one embedd an image in HTML so that the image is delivered with the html file content and does not need a separate trip to the server to retrieve the image? We need this to embed company logo's into signatures before they leave the mail server. We don't want to use a client side solution like thunderbird's or outlook's ...

How do I add an attachment to an email using System.Net.Mail?

I have an excel document represented as a byte[] and I'm wanting to send it as an attachment in an email. I'm having a bit of trouble constructing the attachment. I can create an Attachment which has the following constructors: (Stream contentStream, ContentType contentType) (Stream contentStream, string name) (Stream contentStream, s...

What is the format accepted by System.Net.Mail.MailAddress' parser?

I'm working on an app that's using System.Net.Mail.MailAddress and friends for sending emails. Does that parser implement the full RFC5322 or a subset or what? The MSDN is not very forthcoming on this topic. Any hints appreciated. ...

Exchange Message Tracking log - extracting email send failures

Our Exchange server generates about 100MB of message tracking logs per day. Deep inside these logs are email send failure reports that we want to extract. We have a transactional site that sends confirmation emails to the customer at the end of the transaction. We require the user to enter their email address twice, in two textboxes. If...

What escaping or purification is needed for an email subject?

Sites like Facebook have the user's name in the subject line that sent you a message. Because of this, what escaping would you do on user entered values in a message subject? Or would you just not allow anything other than a-z, 0-9, period, comma and single quotes? ...

How to receive all emails pertaining to a domain, on my production machine?

I have a strange requirement, any website user(not linux system user) will be getting a email id, say [email protected],[email protected] with which they are going to have a inbox feature built into their dashboard. Any outside user(can be anyone on the planet/not precisely my website user) can email this [email protected] and jack r...

An online resource to back an argument for cleaner design

I am working in the web dept of a large legal firm, and among other things am responsible for maintaining a professional look for all our email communications (over 600 pieces per year). Right now I am in a rut. Using a lot of pressure and manipulation, a person in management got to "art direct" a couple of HTML emails working directly ...