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Decode an UTF8 email header

Hi, I have an email subject of the form: =?utf-8?B?T3.....?= The body of the email is utf-8 base64 encoded - and has decoded fine. I am current using Perl's Email::MIME module to decode the email. What is the meaning of the =?utf-8 delimiter and how do I extract information from this string? ...

What guidelines for HTML email design are there?

What guidelines can you give for rich HTML formatting in emails while maintaining good visual stability across many clients and web based email interfaces? An unrelated answer on a question on Stack Overflow suggested: http://www.campaignmonitor.com/blog/archives/2008/05/2008_email_design_guidelines.html Which contains the following g...

Threading when sending emails

Hi, I have a simple function that sends out emails, how would I go about using threads to speed email delivery? Sample code would be ideal. ...

Hosted CRM system with an API?

I apologize if this is slightly off-topic. I'm hoping to find a software-as-a-service CRM system that can be easily integrated with our custom user management application. Fundamentally, we have user our own accounts and provide services to these registered users; frequently, we have email conversations with people that own these accou...

How do I format a String in an email so Outlook will print the line breaks?

I'm trying to send an email in Java but when I read the body of the email in Outlook, it's gotten rid of all my linebreaks. I'm putting \n at the ends of the lines but is there something special I need to do other than that? The receivers are always going to be using Outlook. I found a page on microsoft.com that says there's a 'Remove ...

Parsing a raw email message that may be in html or various strange encodings and converting it to plain text, the way, say, pine might display it.

The reason I want to do this is to make it easy to parse out instructions that are emailed to a bot, the kind of thing majordomo might do to parse commands like subscribing and unsubscribing. It turns out there are a lot of crazy formats and things to deal with, like quoted text, distinguishing between header and body, etc. A perl modu...

Debugging with Oracle's utl_smtp

A client of mine uses Oracle 9i's utl_smtp to send mails out notifications to managers when their employees have made travel requests and they woul like quite a few changes made to the mailouts done. We're having a lot of problems getting utl_smtp to talk to any smtp server on our network. We've even tried installing free smtp server o...

Can gmail's random-signatures-from-an-RSS-feed be used for truly dynamic signatures?

This is a new gmail labs feature that lets you specify an RSS feed to grab random quotes from to append to your email signature. I'd like to use that to generate signatures programmatically based on parameters I pass in, the current time, etc. (For example, I have a script in pine that appends the current probabilities of McCain and Ob...

Anyone have commit notification hook script that will send email upon commit of codes?

Can share with me any of this script? ...

Error sending mail with System.Web.Mail

An older application using System.Web.Mail is throwing an exception on emails coming from [email protected]. Other addresses appear to be working correctly. We changed our mail server to Exchange 2007 when the errors started, so I assume that is where the problem is. Does anyone know what is happening? Here is the exception and stack trace:...

send e-mail and check status

Hi, Using Java mail, I would like to send an e-mail and check the status. Possible statuses include: Hard-bounce: No mail server found Soft-bounce: Mail server found, but account not found Success Is it even possible to send an e-mail and get some feedback about the delivery attempt in the manner I've described above? EDIT: A respo...

What can cause mutated Word document attachements?

We are sending out Word documents via email (automated system, not by hand). The email is sent to the user, and CC'd to me. We are getting reports that some users are having the attachments come through corrupted, though when we open the copy that is CC'd to me, it opens fine. When the user forwards us the copy they received, then we c...

Send mail from a Windows script

I would like to send mail from a script on a Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition. I think the server setup is pretty much out of the box. The mail server is an Exchange one, and when you're on the internal network you can use plain old SMTP. I have done it from my machine with Perl, but unfortunately Perl is not available on the server...

verify email in Java

Hi, Is there any way to verify in Java code that an e-mail address is valid. By valid, I don't just mean that it's in the correct format ([email protected]), but that's it's a real active e-mail address. I'm almost certain that there's no 100% reliable way to do this, because such a technique would be the stuff of spammer's drea...

Precedence: header in email

My web application sends email fairly often, and it sends 3 kinds of emails: initiated by user, in response to an event in the system, and in automatic response to an email received by the application. I would like to make sure that the third type of email does not get stuck in an endless loop of auto-responders talking to each other. ...

download mail attachment with Java

Hi, I had a look in the reference doc, and Spring seems to have pretty good support for sending mail. However, I need to login to a mail account, read the messages, and download any attachments. Is downloading mail attachments supported by the Spring mail API? I know you can do this with the Java Mail API, but in the past I've found th...

Regexp recognition of email address hard?

I recently read somewhere that writing a regexp to match an email address, taking into account all the variations and possibilities of the standard is extremely hard and is significantly more complicated than what one would initially assume. Can anyone provide some insight as to why that is? Are there any known and proven regexps tha...

Create an EML (E-Mail) File in Java

Anybody knows how to do this? I got all the information of the email (body, subject, from , to, cc, bcc) and need to generate an eml-file out of it. ...

how to send email with graphic via php

Hi, i would like to send html email with graphic elements included i have no idea to attach garaphics to this email please help ...

What do I need for a compliant email header

I am trying to send an email from a site I am building, but it ends up in the yahoo spam folder. It is the email that sends credentials. What can I do to legitimize it? $header = "From: site <[email protected]>\r\n"; $header .= "To: $name <$email>\r\n"; $header .= "Subject: $subject\r\n"; $header .= "Reply-To: site <[email protected]>" . "\r\...