http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICalendar I'm working to implement an export feature for events. The link above lists tons of clients that support the ICalendar standard, but the "three big ones" I can see are Apple's iCal, Microsoft's Outlook, and Google's Gmail. I'm starting to get the feeling that each of these client implement differe...
Instead of relying on my host to send email, I was thinking of sending the messages though my gmail account. The emails are personalized emails to the bands I play on my show. Has anyone had success doing this? ...
In my PHP webapp, I want to be notified via email whenever certain errors occur. I'd like to use my Gmail account for sending these. How could this be done? ...
Is it possible to send an email from my Java application using a Gmail account? I have it configured to send using my company mail server, but that's not going to cut it when I distribute the application. Answers using Hotmail or Yahoo mail are also acceptable. ...
I want to access messages in GMail from a Java application using JavaMail and IMAP. Why am I getting a SocketTimeoutException? Here is my code: Properties props = System.getProperties(); props.setProperty("mail.imap.host", "imap.gmail.com"); props.setProperty("mail.imap.port", "993"); props.setProperty("mail.imap.connectiontimeout", "5...
I came back today to an old script I had for logging into Gmail via SSL. The script worked fine last time I ran it (several months ago) but now it dies immediately with: <urlopen error The read operation timed out> If I set the timeout (no matter how long), it dies even more immediately with: <urlopen error The connect operation time...
I've got my Rails (2.1) app setup to send email via Gmail, however whenever I send an email no matter what I set the from address to in my ActionMailer the emails always come as if sent from my Gmail email address. Is this a security restriction they've put in place at Gmail to stop spammers using their SMTP? Note: I've tried both of th...
Is there a secure way of logging into a Gmail account on a web browser, from an external Java program? I know the following works, but is there a safer alternative? Desktop.getDesktop().browse(new URI( "https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLoginAuth?continue=http://mail.google.com/gmail" + "&service=mail&Email=LOGIN&Pa...
I made a write-up about how to analyze your gmail account data with ruby. Then on SlashDot, someone told me about mail-trends. Does anyone have other tools to suggest ? ...
I want to add gmail-like file upload functionality for one of my projects. Can anybody help me with this? My application is built in vb.net. I would appreciate any kind of help or guidance. Thanks Mithil Deshmukh ...
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...
In Gmail, I have a bunch of labeled messages. I'd like to use an IMAP client to get those messages, but I'm not sure what the search incantation is. c = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL('imap.gmail.com') c.list() ('OK', [..., '(\\HasNoChildren) "/" "GM"', ...]) c.search(???) I'm not finding many examples for this sort of thing. ...
I think it important to have an "undo" method ala gmail when destroying records instead of displaying an annoying popup that says, "Are you sure?". The way that I've implemented this is to have a "deleted_at" timestamp column in the model which gets timestamped when destroy method is called def destroy @foo = Foo.find(params[:id]) ...
I'm using javax.mail to retrieve mails from GMail using IMAP. I want to also obtain the tags being applied to each mail, so I'm iterating over all the folders in the store (which actually are tags) and downloading mails for each other. I was using the method getUID of ImapFolder to obtain the UID for each message, and then compare them ...
I would like to assign a drive letter to a GMail drive so that I could script some output to it. Are they any hacks to get this to work? ...
So I have action_mailer_optional_tls (http://svn.douglasfshearer.com/rails/plugins/action_mailer_optional_tls) and this in my enviroment.rb ActionMailer::Base.server_settings = { :tls => true, :address => "smtp.gmail.com", :port => "587", :domain => "www.somedomain.com", :authentication => :plain, :user_name => "someusername...
I open gmail, click on an inbox item, and look at source of the page. It doesn't look like there isn't any proper html to relate to what is shown on the actual page. How is the source getting processed into the actual page? Is there some javascript processing this information? ...
How can I send email using Perl through my Gmail account? The one CPAN library (Mail::Webmail::Gmail) that I tried didn't work and I don't see much activity with it. At the moment I really only need to send a message. However, the advanced functionality of getting my contacts, acting when a new email is received that has a certain lab...
In my website (under development), the members can send messages to each other which are sent directly to their email, now I'm worried that some members can send spam to other members (I have a spam filter but it doesn't give 100% protection as you know), I'm worried that my domain might get blacklisted on Yahoo, Gmail, Hotmail or AOL wh...
I have been trying to find information on how to retrieve attachments from a gmail account in either python or PHP, I'm hoping that someone here can be of some help, thanks. Related: How can I download all emails with attachments from Gmail? ...