Just got a request from my boss for an application I'm working on. Basically we're getting an email address setup for an external client to submit excel files to. What I need is a way to automatically pick up any email sent to this address, so I can take the attachment, process it and save it to a folder. Any information of even where...
I'm currently looping through a datareader and calling the System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient's Send() method. The problem with this is that it's slow. Each email takes about 5-10 seconds to send (it's possible this is just an issue with my host). I had to override the executionTimeout default in my web.config file (it defaults to 90 seconds) li...
When I'm creating a user for my web application, an SMTP email (using ASP.NET's SmtpClient) is sent to the user with the automatically generated password. However, sometimes what I notice is that it times out and the new user simply won't receive the email with the password. Alright, so I'll display a message indicating that the mail di...
I'm wondering what is the quickest and most reliable way to forward mail from an IMAP account. My university does not allow our student-mailbox to forward to a private e-mail account (everybody uses either Gmail or Hotmail here). It's a political thing, not technical. We do have IMAP access to the mailbox. I would like to have a service...
I'm working on a Windows Forms (.NET 3.5) application that has a built-in exception handler to catch any (heaven forbid) exceptions that may arrise. I'd like the exception handler to be able to prompt the user to click a "Send Error Report" button, which would then cause the app to send an email to my FogBugz email address. What's the b...
I want to send email from a Ruby application. Is there a call in the core language to do this or is there a library I should use ? What's the best way to do this ? ...
Hi, I have written some code in my VB.NET application to send an HTML e-mail (in this case, a lost password reminder). When I test the e-mail, it gets eaten by my spam filter. One of the things that it's scoring badly on is because of the following problem: MIME_QP_LONG_LINE RAW: Quoted-printable line longer than 76 chars I've been...
What sort of database schema would you use to store email messages, with as much header information as practical/possible, into a database? Assume that they have been fed into a script from the MTA and parsed into the relevant headers/body/attachments. Would you store the message body whole in the database table, or split any MIME-part...
I sent 3 emails last week as replies from our website. None received them. One was yahoo, hotmail and an overseas domain. I am wondering if it's not a good idea to open a yahoo account with our domain name as the user just to reply to prospective buyers. ...
What is the best way to refactor the attached code to accommodate multiple email addresses? The attached HTML/jQuery is complete and works for the first email address. I can setup the other two by copy/pasting and changing the code. But I would like to just refactor the existing code to handle multiple email address fields. <html> <hea...
I'm already using salted hashing to store passwords in my database, which means that I should be immune to rainbow table attacks. I had a thought, though: what if someone does get hold of my database? It contains the users' email addresses. I can't really hash these, because I'll be using them to send notification emails, etc.. Should ...
If I want to send mail not via SMTP, but rather via sendmail, is there a library for python that encapsulates this process? Better yet, is there a good library that abstracts the whole 'sendmail -versus- smtp' choice? I'll be running this script on a bunch of unix hosts, only some of which are listening on localhost:25; a few of these ...
This is not "exactly" a programming question, but it's highly related. We are writing an app that sends out email invitations for a client (no, it's not spam). Their designer gave us an HTML and CSS template to use which is fine. The problem is that it looks like crap in Outlook 2007 because Microsoft decided to use Word (of all thing...
I am writing a web application that requires user interaction via email. I'm curious if there is a best practice or recommended source for learning about processing email. I am writing my application in Python, but I'm not sure what mail server to use or how to format the message or subject line to account for automated processing. I'...
I use ABAP program to send e-mail invoices to our customers. Invoice is pdf attachment created by function SX_OBJECT_CONVERT_OTF_PDF. Problem is that when language is PL (Polish) attachment is 10 times bigger comparing to EN language. Why? ...
I'm working on an email validation check and we need to decided whether to allow user@localhost and user@example (notice no .anything) to be validated as a valid email address. This is for an open source project that has a number of use cases on both the web at large and intranets. RFC 2822 (Internet Message Format Standard) allows it b...
We have a Exchange 2003 server that does not send mail to all the users in an alias. Is there any way to get a detailed look at the headers? ...
I've got a web app that sends out emails in response to a user-initaited action. These emails prompt the recipient for a response (an URL is included related to the specific action.) I've got some users asking for a "resend" feature to push that email again. My objection is that if the original email ended up in a spam folder (or didn...
We have a Microsoft web stack web site, we have a members database. We want to start doing mass-emails to our (opted in) membership. I don't particularly want to re-invent the wheel with a system for having a web form submit and then mass send emails looping through thousands of records without timing out and overloading the server... ...
I'm using exim on both the sending and relay hosts, the sending host seems to offer: HELO foo_bar.example.com Response: 501 Syntactically invalid HELO argument(s) ...