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Approach to use for user email address change in application?
As the title says, if the user wants change their email address in the application, in terms of programming, what approach (process) to use? Where do you store the new email address until the user ...
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Do Windows mail clients actually care about the MIME type of binary attachments?
...or, in other words: When sending a mail programmatically, do I really need to go through the hassle of setting the correct MIME type or can I just use application/octet-stream?
The mail clients I ...
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Why do some big projects, like Git and Debian, only use a mailing list and not an issue tracker?
Bug tracker for any decent sized project seem like a bit of a no-brainer to me - it makes it really easy to organise hundreds or thousands issues, without issues colliding or getting mixed up.
So ...
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How to create a Web app that “interacts” with email?
I have a web host that supports cPanel and email addresses. I'm interested in creating a web app that checks for email messages, reads their contents and then does something with them, like interact ...
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Task Scheduler shared hosting
I am using a shared host that which doesn't support CRON/TaskScheduler (it is a windows Godaddy server).
I need to search on email server for new emails on each 1 hour, I have the script on PHP.
Can ...
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How to create an automated email in several languages (multipart/alternative)?
I need to send automated emails to customers whose language I am not sure about.
90 % are french and would probably not be able to read mails in english.
The other 10 % would probably be able to read ...
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Validating Emails in PHP
I wrote the following function to validate emails for a web app I'm working on:
function validate_email($email) {
$valid = true;
if(!filter_var($email, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL)) {
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Is sending password to user email secure? [closed]
How secure is sending passwords through email to a user, since email isn't secured by HTTPS.
What is the best way to secure it? Should I use encryption?
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GMail API for a small app (Rails? Javascript? PHP?)
I want to create an app that accesses the GMail API, but I'm finding that it isn't as simple as I thought it might be.
I'm hoping somebody in the community here might have some experience working ...
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Developing an online email service [closed]
I am interested in developing an online email service (e.g. Gmail, Hotmail, but on a much smaller scale) allowing people to sign up for free email addresses on my domain. The domain in question is ...
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How to go about designing an intermediate routing filter program to accept input and forward accordingly?
My predicament:
I designed an app, written in Python, to read my mail and check for messages that contain a certain digital signature. It opens these and looks for keywords. If the message contains ...
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Large enterprise application - clients wish to use duplicate e-mails addresses?
I'd like to know people's opinions, reactions to clients and technical work arounds (if applicable), to the issue of an enterprise application where a client wishes to use duplicate e-mail addresses?
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Responding to end users about bugs they found
I have an issue tracking system, but sometimes users report bugs directly to me in an email.
If I'm responding to a bug report in an email, what's a good etiquette to use? Do I thank them for ...
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What is the best policy for allowing clients to change email?
We are developing a web application with a fairly standard registration process which requires a client/user to verify their email address before they are allowed to use the site. The site also ...
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Sending an email with attachment from server side
I have to create a word document in a specific format and send it as attachment to some email addresses.
I have a preview screen for the report which on approval has to be send in email. This is an ...
