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How do you make sure email you send programmatically is not automatically marked as spam?

This is a tricky one - and I've always relied on techniques such as permission-based emails (i.e. only sending to people you have permission to send to) and not using blatantly spamish terminology. Of late, some of the emails I send out programmatically have started being shuffled into people's spam folder automatically - and I'm wonder...

MAPI and managed code experiences?

Using MAPI functions from within managed code is officially unsupported. Apparently, MAPI uses its own memory management and it crashes and burns within managed code (see here and here) All I want to do is launch the default e-mail client with subject, body, AND one or more attachments. So I've been looking into MAPISendDocuments and ...

Is a "Confirm Email" input good practice when user changes email address?

My organization has a form to allow users to update their email address with us. It's suggested that we have two input boxes for email: the second as an email confirmation. I always copy/paste my email address when faced with the confirmation. I'm assuming most of our users are not so savvy. Regardless, is this considered a good practi...

E-mail Notifications

In a .net system I'm building, there is a need for automated e-mail notifications. These should be editable by an admin. What's the easiest way to do this? SQL table and WYSIWIG for editing? ...

Can I use JavaScript to create a client side email?

Hello, I want to create a client side mail creator web page. I know the problems of using the mailto action in an html form (not standard, no default mail appication set on the client...). but the web page isn't very important, and they don't care very much. The mail created by the mailto action has the syntax: subject: undefined su...

Why won't Entourage work with Exchange 2007?

So this is IT more than programming but Google found nothing, and you guys are just the right kind of geniuses. My Exchange Server 2007 and Entourage clients don't play nice. Right now the big issue is that the entourage client will not connect to Exchange 2007 ( Entourage 2004 or 2008) The account settings are correct and use the ...

What's in your .procmailrc

Are there any handy general items you put in your .procmailrc file? ...

Sending emails without looking like spam

Possible Duplicate: How do you make sure email you send programmatically is not automatically marked as spam? Hi people, I want so send every week an update by email. But Im afraid that if there are too many emails sent, they will be marked as spam. Any of you has experience sending many emails (thousands) weekly? What techni...

Is there any wiki engine that supports page creation by email?

Hi folks. I want to consolidate all the loose information of the company I work for into a knowledge base. A wiki seems to be the way to go, but most of the relevant information is buried inside PST files, and it would take ages to convince people to manually translate their emails one by one (including attachments) into wiki pages. So I...

parsing raw email in php

i'm looking for good/working/simple to use php code for parsing raw email into parts. i've written a couple of brute force solutions, but everytime, one small change/header/space/something comes along and my whole parser fails and the project falls apart. and before i get pointed at PEAR/PECL, i need actual code. my host has some screw...

Good email service for bulk emailing

Just found out that the hosting company where I'll probably put one site has limit of 1000 emails per day. They suggested to use an outside email service specialized in bulking email. What do you people use? What will stackoverflow use? Thanks ...

What was your biggest mistake involving programmatically sending email?

I was wondering what some of the biggest programming mistakes people have made involving mass mailing, spamming, testing or email coding in general were. (I've posted mine below...) ...

Read from .msg files

I need to read from Outlook .MSG file in .NET without using COM API for Outlook (cos it will not be installed on the machines that my app will run). Are there any free 3rd party libraries to do that? I want to extract From, To, CC and BCC fields. Sent/Receive date fields would be good if they are also stored in MSG files. ...

How do I send a file as an email attachment using Linux command line?

I've created a script that runs every night on my Linux server that uses mysqldump to back up each of my MySQL databases to .sql files and packages them together as a compressed .tar file. The next step I want to accomplish is to send that tar file through email to a remote email server for safekeeping. I've been able to send the raw s...

How do I open the default mail program with a Subject and Body in a cross-platform way?

How do I open the default mail program with a Subject and Body in a cross-platform way? Unfortunately, this is for a a client app written in Java, not a website. I would like this to work in a cross-platform way (which means Windows and Mac, sorry Linux). I am happy to execute a VBScript in Windows, or AppleScript in OS X. But I have n...

Email queueing in php

What is the most proper way to sending email of minimal 1000 or more in php? Any reliable email queueing technique that is capable to handle that? ...

Recommendations for a .NET component to access an email inbox

I've been asked to write a Windows service in C# to periodically monitor an email inbox and insert the details of any messages received into a database table. My instinct is to do this via POP3 and sure enough, Googling for ".NET POP3 component" produces countless (ok, 146,000) results. Has anybody done anything similar before and can ...

Accessing an Exchange Server without Outlook

Is there a method of accessing an Exchange server that does not have IMAP or POP3 enabled without Outlook? It does not appear that Outlook Express supports Exchange (only IMAP and POP3). ...

If email is not the answer then what is?

In my office email is one of the primary means of communication. Developers are spread around the world, so you can't always meet up and time differences mean that phone/VOIP is not always practical. I find email hard to manage. You end up with hundreds/thousands of emails in various threads. You get CC'ed on stuff that is of marginal i...

Maximum length of a MIME Content-Type header field?

I'm just designing the schema for a database table which will hold details of email attachments - their size in bytes, filename and content-type (i.e. "image/jpg", "audio/mp3", etc). Does anybody know the maximum length that I can expect a content-type to be? ...