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Implementing notification emails

My client wants to send email announcements and reports for customers. Now. The python-side code doesn't seem too hard but there's the rest of the story. What do I require in order to send such emails that won't end up getting blocked by email servers and clients? ...

Is it possible to add an HTML link in the body of a MAILTO link

I have not had to mess with mailto links much. However I now need to add a link in the body of a mailto if it is possible. Is there a way to add a link or to change the email opened to an html email vs a text email? Something like: <a href="mailto:[email protected]?body=The message's first paragraph.%0A%0aSecond paragraph.%0A%0AThird ...

SMTP Relay Limits

We have set up a system where notifications get sent to a user with the following From address format: user-{0}@aol.com (replace {0} with an ID) This way we can track what user we sent the message to originally. This format is not likely to change for various reasons. The issue we are running into is this: every email we send out wi...

How can I apply David Allen's "Getting Things Done" as a programmer?

Off and on I have read David Allen's "Getting Things Done" productivity books but never really implemented it. What tools do you use to track tasks and projects? How do you organize tasks when 95% of your tasks would be in the @Computer folder? ...

How can you give users confidence that your application has no malicious intent?

I am a FireFox user, and I recently installed the GMail notifier add-on. When you first install the add on, it requests your GMail address and password, and will then use this to login to your Gmail account (presumably via SSL). It shows a number on your taskbar, indicating how many unread emails are in your inbox, and also notifies yo...

sending mail with php & escaping hotmails junk folder

I have been trying to get PEAR::mail to successfully deliver emails to hotmail users without being flagged as SPAM and ending up in the junk folder, i have no problems with yahoo/gmail only with hotmail. google suggested that this is a common problem with hotmail and that possible causes can include incorrect reverse DNS for main IP o...

What's the best way to give the user weekly updates from your program?

I have a program that, for the most part, operates in the background. Let's say it DoesWork(). Once a week, I want it to notify the user on some of the work it has completed over the past few days. It will be a basic status report, listing some files that have been downloaded. Initially, I wanted to sent this status update via email,...

How to implement DomainKeys?

Can any one gave me requirements/step-by-step procedures on how am I suppose to create DomainKeys for my mail server so that our email can pass through on Yahoo!'s mail server without being marked as spam or bulk mail? I think implementing DomainKeys is one of the requirements of Yahoo! Mail to not have email marked as spam. Our mail s...

Best tools for testing bulk emailing in .net?

Scenario is that we send out thousands of emails through SMTP server. Content is created in advance and picked up when sent. The thing is we want to find where our bottlenecks are in production environment and where work needs to be done. Goal is to be able to send half a million emails in ten minutes*. Should we create dummy email...

Outlook Express - sending e-mail from the command line

What is the best way to send e-mail using outlook express from the command line? It has to be an automated operation with no user interaction. There will be some .jpg files in attachment. Thanks. ...

How can I Forward an Email to FogBugz and Have it Make it into a Bug?

I didn't see it in the help but I figure it's possible. Also how do I find out what email address to use? ...

How to attach HTML file to email using content taken from DB in PHP?

Hi, How do I send mail via PHP with attachment of HTML file? -> Content of HTML file (code) is in string in DB. Is there some easy way or free script to do this? I don't want to store the file localy, I need to read it out of DB and send it straightaway as attachment (not included in body). ...

In CodeIgniter, how can I have PHP error messages emailed to me?

I'd like to receive error logs via email. For example, if a Warning-level error message should occur, I'd like to get an email about it. How can I get that working in CI ? Thanks, Ian ...

Algorithm for organizing emails into threads?

Are there any named/famous/particularly good algorithms for organizing email messages into threads? I'm looking to add a feature to my site similar to Google Groups (and other mailing lists) and I was just wondering if there were any published algorithms for such organizing. I know it would probably be fairly easy to roll my own, but t...

How do I programmatically send an email in the same way that I can "Send To Mail Recipient" in Windows Explorer?

ShellExecute() allows me to perform simple shell tasks, allowing the system to take care of opening or printing files. I want to take a similar approach to sending an email attachment programmatically. I don't want to manipulate Outlook directly, since I don't want to assume which email client the user uses by default. I don't want to s...

automation: email yourself a file

Hi all, I have a computer at home which I can't access from work. I'd like to be able to view results from work that my home computer produces. The best idea I've come up with is an automated script running on my home computer that emails myself the results (from a text file or stderr/out) when complete. I'm decent with bash (I hav...

How do i set up an application on windows to respond to MAPISendMail calls?

The MAPISendMail function is available on windows so that an application can request that an email be sent. Windows will route the request to whichever email client is configured as the default provider. How do I write an application so that it will act as an email client for the purpose of receiving the MAPISendMail emails? Can anyone ...

Is there a Python library function which attempts to guess the character-encoding of some bytes?

I'm writing some mail-processing software in Python that is encountering strange bytes in header fields. I suspect this is just malformed mail; the message itself claims to be us-ascii, so I don't think there is a true encoding, but I'd like to get out a unicode string approximating the original one without throwing a UnicodeDecodeError...

Reading an email string from a cookie in java

Hello all, My application needs to store the users email address in a cookie so that I can pre-populate a login form (username == email address). I set the cookie value in JavaScript. If I read it from JavaScript, I get "[email protected]". If I look at it in the cookie viewer in Firefox I get "[email protected]". When I try to read it on the serv...

Sending emails with Javascript

This is a little confusing to explain, so bear with me here... I want to set up a system where a user can send templated emails via my website, except it's not actually sent using my server - it instead just opens up their own local mail client with an email ready to go. The application would fill out the body of the email with predefin...