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How to validate a given domain is owned by the user?
I'm writing a software which will be used mostly by companies.
I then had the idea to give companies a way to register their email domain so that every user which registers with an email of the given ...
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Auto generate project status reports thru email text analysis and summarization
I hate writing status reports for my boss. I usually spend an hour each Friday morning scanning emails trying to remember what the heck I did for the past week.
A typical report looks something like ...
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Sending e-mail from a web application without being filtered out [closed]
For a web application I'm working on right now it's very important that automated e-mails arrive at the recipient. I've set up the mail server on the VPS that the application is going to run on. I've ...
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Sending emails from server side
I need to read some of your opinions. I'm developing a desktop app (.net/winform) to keep data in one place. This is used by several clients and the data is stored in MS SQL Server (client-server ...
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What is the benefit of offloading email to a transactional mail service?
Why do so many people recommend offloading email to a transactional service such as Mandrill, Postmark or Sendgrid?
Is sending email via smtp really that much slower than sending a request out to ...
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Is displaying an HTML email a security risk?
I am writing a simple webmail where I want (obviously) to display the emails.
I'm wondering if I should take any precaution while displaying HTML emails: is dumping the email content into a ...
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Can one determine the creation date of an email account?
Is it possible to determine the creation date of the email supplied with the authentication process flow; Or at least determine that the email was/was not created the same day as signup (or ...
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Why do most sites require email activation [closed]
Most popular applications nowadays require account activation by email. I've never done it with apps that I've developed so am I missing some crucial security feature?
By email activation I mean when ...
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How can I capture an incoming email with ASP.net-mvc?
I would like to write a web system that can capture and parse incoming emails, traditionally the web system I write are asp.net-mvc, running in a cloud hosted environment like AppHarbour or Azure.
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Mail Server Caching
I'm currently working on a web mail client. When a user logs in, I'm fetching all the mails from the INBOX from the beginning of time. As expected this is pretty darn slow. I'm planning to implement ...
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Sending e-mails without using an e-mail server
JavaMail sends e-mails using an e-mail server, typically through the SMTP interface of an e-mail provider. Is it necessary to use an e-mail server to send e-mails?
I have a web site that will send ...
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How to line-break an email address?
After some discussion, I have come across a rather complicated situation. Say I intend to display an email address. I have, obviously, limited space available on the screen - be that browser or ...
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How do I set up pairing email addresses?
Our team uses the Ruby gem hitch to manage pairing. You set it up with a group email address (e.g. [email protected]) and then tell it who is pairing:
$ hitch james tiffany
Hitch then sets your Git ...
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Is it possible to do decent spam filtering without scanning the contents of emails?
I don't have much knowledge of the subject but as I know, when servers receive an email they have two sources of data to classify it as SPAM or not. The contents of the message (subject + body) and ...
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Is it possible to build a custom email client for Gmail using Java APIs? [closed]
Is it possible to build a custom email client for Gmail using Java APIs?
Or only Google can do that?
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Should I parse an email template before or after placing it in the queue?
I have a web application that sends out transactional (triggered) emails to users. We've setup a message queue for the web application to write to when it needs to send out an email (best practices ...
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What's a good way for a program to process an email mailbox?
Let's have a program that checks an email mailbox and then "processes" the messages contained there. (For this question it doesn't really matter what it actually does with the message). The program ...
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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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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 ...
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How does eMail encryption work?
I have been going over YouTube watching videos on eMail encryption and everyone seems to explain it from a different perspective. Some do it for a CompTIA exam while others just provide a primer.
Here ...
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How do PGP and PEM differ?
Email messages are sent in plain text which means that the messages I send to Derpina are visible to anyone who somehow gets access to them while they are in transit.
To overcome this, various ...
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Emailing Service: To or Bcc?
I'm busy coding a reusable e-mail service for my company. The e-mail service will be doing quite a few things via injection through the strategy pattern (such as handling e-mail send rate throttling, ...
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Is speed a parameter for responding emails of technical tests? [closed]
I am sending my CV to different companies and some of them have replied asking me to complete a test to have an idea of my skills. I wonder if the time to respond to this email is key factor for being ...
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Registration: Email hash and verifying only one account per email
I'm using a registration function that hashes the email in PBKDF2 with a random and unique Salt each time. The hashes email and his salt are saved in the DB. No problem with that.
The problem is that ...
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Designing an email system to guarantee delivery
We are looking to expand our use of email for notification purposes. We understand it will generate more inbox volume, but we are being selective about which events we fire notification on in order ...
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How to implement an email unsubscribe system for a site with many kinds of emails?
I'm working on a website that features many different types of emails. Users have accounts, and when logged in they have access to a setting page that they can use to customize what types of emails ...
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Bad idea to display mail server info in public github project?
I have the project for work that requires me to send e-mails to people using our work mail server. The server doesn't require authentication. Part of my project is using a Java-Helper I'm developing ...
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Handling SMS/email convergence: how does a good business app do it?
I'm writing a school administration software package, but it strikes me that many developers will face this same issue: when communicating with users, should you use email or SMS or both, and should ...
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How to log configuration or code behaviour changes in non-disruptive way [closed]
We've probably all been in the situation where you'd like to alert your team members to some change ("I changed X, so now it's running every hour instead of every day"). But the change is non-urgent, ...
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Common practice in handling bounce message
At now I mainly create a mail account separately (with different domain name [email protected]) and i add this mail as one return path. So the bounce message will only go to that mailbox and i ...
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Are there any ways to track for the visitor of my site , which site visitor come from?
This is a problem because when I do email campaign,
There is a link on the email, that link to my company homepage,
I would like to differentiate between the visitor come from another way (e.g. ...
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Should I use Legitimate Email spoofing?
Recently I receive a request: users' emails are stored in the database, and as request of a user, the system will send an email on their behalves.
To add more context, it's like sending an email from ...
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Why does email sent from my site end up in SPAM folders? [closed]
I am developing a course registration website in Django. New users must confirm their email address by clicking on a link emailed to them.
Unfortunately, this message is consistently ending up in ...
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Why is a Bayes classifier used for spam filtering?
I've been reading about Bayesian spam filtering and I think I understand the theory, but I just don't see why this approach is needed in order to calculate the likelihood of a message being spam, ...
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Programming around email address case sensitivity
Like many websites, we use email addresses as user identifiers for logins.
RFC 5321 [#2.3.11] states that the local parts of email addresses:
MUST be
interpreted and assigned semantics only ...
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Need to figure out Timesheet via Email [closed]
So we are thinking that we might want to make timesheet submission easier by having our timesheet system send out a person's timesheet via email to the employee. The employee then should fill out the ...
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Is using xml + xsl to create a weekly html email a good or bad idea?
The guy who is in charge of our html emails is leaving and I have been asked to take over. We are an online retailer and send out an email once a week. An email will consist of a main image, a bit of ...
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How far should I take email address validation when the cost of bad emails is high?
When it's more important to prevent typos than to cover 100% of all possible email addresses, what syntactic email validations do you do?
Imagine this:
You're with the local gas & electric ...
