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mail() header problem for html email

I am trying to write a error reporting feature for a website in php. I cannot get the headers right so that the email will display as html. Here is the code: if( isset($_POST['submit']) ) { $browser = $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']; $page = $_POST['page']; $email = $_POST['email']; $error = $_POST['error']; $mess...

In terms of user experience, is it better to request new info or prompt for permission for old info?

Facebook applications have access to a service they call Proxied Mail. It's basically an email address unique to the user/app pair and forwards to the users registered email address as long as they continue to grant the app permission. So I can use this and prompt for permission, or I can just ask the user for their real email address s...

Create a Email message in .NET

I want to be able to create an email message with an attachment, but not send it. The email should open in Outlook where the user can send himself. I have been playing around with Mailto: command in order to open a new mail message, however, Outlook client doesn't seem to support adding attachments using the Mailto: command. I do not w...

What is the best way to implement an unsubscribe link for your newsletter?

I am thinking that I create a deactivation code put that in the unsubscribe link along with their user id. Then when a recipient of my newsletter clicks the link, I can look up their user id and see if the deactivation code matches. Does this sound like the best way? What are some other ways? ...

Two emails when sent via SMTP

I've used two PHP email scripts and routing it through my SMTP server, when I do this though it sends two of the same email. When I use mail() this doesn't happen, but I'd much rather use SMTP. Any ideas why this may be occuring? ...

Process many incoming emails in Rails: MySQL vs. Imap / Pop3 vs. other solution

Hi, at an application I'm working on users can forward their email-accounts to an address from our system (something like [email protected] ). It doesn't matter here why they should do this, but I need some professional advice on the best way to approach this. The basic idea is that our mailserver receives the incoming (for...

How to stop Exchange from automatically converting plain text emails to HTML?

I've set up an Exchange 2003 mailbox for emails that will be parsed by my code. The emails are sent as plain text and my code expects to receive them as plain text. However, it appears that Exchange is automatically converting them to HTML. How do I stop it from doing that and just receive the email the way it was sent? The reason I bel...

What's faster for getting Mails into Rails: Pop3 / Imap or direct MySQL query?

Hi, I'll rewrite a different question of mine, because the problem case somewhat changed: If I want to get mails from my mailserver (different machine) into my Rails App to process it there, what is faster: Connecting via net/Pop or net/imap to download the mails Storing the Mails on the Mailserver in a MySQL Database (using somethin...

Easiest free email server for Windows development

I'm developing a Java app on the Windows platform, and my application needs to send email. For development/testing purposes, what is an easy and free email server I can run on Windows? ...

Adding bug through email with a bug tracking system

Do you know any bug tracking tools that support adding bugs by sending an email to a specific address? ...

PHP mail not showing up at Gmail but shows up at Hotmail and other 3rd party/ISP account

I have 2 sites where mail is sent to two vanity gmail accounts. I'm using PHP to handle the mail, but the mail is not showing up at gmail (not in spam/junk, it just doesn't show up). If I switch the PHP to send to my personal hotmail account, the mail shows up. Same for a personal email account through my ISP. The mail used to show u...

Is there a scalable email service similar to Amazon's AWS for storage?

Hello, is there a scalable email service where you only pay for the emails that you send. I was thinking of a service like Amazon's AWS except for email. I have a web application that sends out email and I would the email provider to scale to the demand. Thanks. ...

How to use Microsoft.WindowsMobile.PocketOutlook to read email title?

I want to get the title of email in PocketOutlook in Windows Mobile. I make a search in MSDN and find I may use Microsoft.WindowsMobile.PocketOutlook Namespace--EmailMessage Class--Subject Property should help me to get the email title. But when I write using Microsoft.WindowsMobile.PocketPC; an error says that The type or namespac...

How to get Email title using MAPI on Windows Mobile?

I want to get email title in PockerOutlook in Windows Mobile, but currently Microsoft.WindowsMobile.PocketOutlook has the ability to: Enumerate messaging accounts. Send Email Send SMS Intercept SMS So I want to DLLImport MAPI.DLL to get its functions in order to get the title of email. I find this reference written in C++. It seems ...

php, whats is the different between strtolower and mb_strtolower?

php, whats is the different between strtolower and mb_strtolower? If i want to convert submitted email address, to be converted to lower-case, which one should i use? Is there any email like this : [email protected] If there are such email, should i still convert the submitted email address to lower case? ...

Is there a way to check if the email is EXISTED using php?

I am getting more and more spam emails recently. I already validate my email using regular expression, all the emails must be something like this: [email protected] But the problem i have now is, there are alot spammers, type [email protected], [email protected], these emails are not existed, because i tried to send email to them. H...

Getting Outlook::_MailItem from Outlook::Attachment (embedded email)

I'm writing an Outlook Addin using VC/ATL. This particular addin takes selected email messages and writes them to disk. It also writes all of the associated attachments to disk. We then read everything in to our application outside of Outlook. Using the Outlook object model, this is pretty straightforward as both _MailItem and Attachmen...

Emailing large lists in SharePoint fails regularly

I have a list that contains roughly 4500 items in it. The default view is set to return 25 items at a time. The list is a discussion board set up to receive email updates, receiving approximately 30 per day. I have an issue where every week or so the email stops working. Anyone who emails the list gets an Undeliverable message. Disa...

Send emails (using Postfix) from two different domains.

Hi, I have two Ruby on Rails applications, and two virtual domains (mydomain1.com and mydomain2.com)(using Apache+REE+mod_rails). I use Postfix as mail server. So I have myhostname = mail.mydomain1.com in main.cf And that's because why the sender is always mail.mydomain1.com, no matter from which application I send emails. I need all ...

java imap fetch messages since a date

I am writing/learning to fetch email using java from an IMAP folder using javax.mail package. I was successfully able to retrieve the last n messages in a Folder, however I am looking to build an example to retrieve messages since a specified date. Any examples? ...