digital electronic mail sent over the internet.
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Can a dropdown in-email, like from G+, be implemented without special support from the email client? [closed]
Noticed today this great trinket from Google: in their notification emails upon new G+ followers, the recipient can add someone to a circle directly from a dropdown in the email. (See below).
The ...
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What would be an expected behaviour for resetting the password?
When a user uses the »I forgot my password« link several times and gets a couple of emails, each one with a tokenized link to reset his password, what would be the appropriate behaviour?
All links ...
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Usability of an email field without label “email”
Does it make sense to a user that this field is for email only?
Or is it confusing?
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3answers
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Should I send the private message body in the notifying email?
My website is a bit similar to StackExchange sites in regards of user interaction, but additionally it has a private messaging system. A message has a subject and a body.
Every time a new message or ...
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2answers
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Should i line wrap my emails?
When my coworkers send their emails, some would diligently line wrap the body text into lines that are at most, say 78 characters wide, others would use no line break in a paragraph, and the ...
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2answers
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What's better for invitation emails: a temporary password or a one-time login url?
Our web app allows our customers to invite their collaborators into their account. They can submit the new user's email address, and our app sends the new user an email inviting them to login. Once ...
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2answers
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Experience with effective subject and body for “credit card expiring soon” emails
I have a subscription service that has a few dozen subscribers drop off every month because of expired credit cards. I was hoping to gain a little insight into some best practices for an email to prod ...
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Is a captcha necessary when email validation is being utilised?
During registration for my new website, I'm going to require that a link is clicked in a confirmation email before a new user has full privileges. Is this a good way to remove spammers/bots, or do you ...
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ECommerce Order Confirmation Email Format [closed]
I have created a custom ECommerce application. Everything is fine. Now, I only need to send a order confirmation email detail to user and the supplier. But I am not finding any UI for this. Can ...
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Should general 404 page be shown to the user if he clicks one-time link second time?
There is a Sign up function in a web application. After user signs up, an email message with confirmation link is sent to his email address. This confirmation link is obviously valid only one time.
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Logging in with email only
I'm working on a blog and there will be an option to post a comment.
I could implement registration with username, password and email — the standard way. I could implement 3rd-party authorization ...
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Are mailto: links a problem? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Using mailto: links for email addresses…what is the practice these days?
What percent of the US sees a dead Outlook popup when they click a mailto: link?
Most amateur ...
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Is a web form that sends an email bad UX versus native email client?
I am developing a web-browser-based contact form for our public web site. The form allows a user to enter their email address and compose a message. Upon submission an email is generated and sent to ...
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3answers
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Should email verification links expire?
It's a common practice for websites to send email verification links on sign up. Should these verification links expire? I know about a bunch of website where they do and I wonder why?
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Hyphenating URLs and email addresses that would overflow their container?
This is clearly bad UX and web development:
It's important to make sure that email addresses and URLs don't overflow the container, but also that they are fully visible.
But should the email ...
