I'm using the v3 API to send confirmation emails to my new users. All of the emails appear to be sending BUT over half of the emails don't contain the dynamically-inserted confirmation URL that I send along in the request.
I'm not sure where to start debugging this: if ~50% of the emails are getting the links within their emails and the rest aren't, where would you start with digging into this problem?
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I develop a mobile app Speaking Email that reads emails out to the user, which can be used while driving to work for example. I would like to add Slack as an account type. Ideally we would have Speaking Email read out the user’s slack messages that are unread, as these will be what they need to catch up on. However it does not appear the Slack API has a method for retrieving the messages the user hasn’t read. Is this possible with the latest Slack API?
I was searching for the same thing and found their API doc about Read Messages!
https://api.slack.com/messaging/retrieving
I would like to access the messages in the Twitter via the API in real time. A cursory search showed that it is possible to periodically send API-request to Twitter. In general, this is possible. 15 requests in 15 minutes is enough.
But I'm wondering, are there other ways to get information faster?
For example, is it possible to subscribe to notifications and receive a request from Twitter at a certain address?
Are you asking if Twitter has webhooks? The answer is yes
Review Securing Webhooks documention taking special note of the
Challenge Response Check (CRC) requirements.
Create a web app with an endpoint to use as your webhook to receive
events (e.g. https://example.com/webhook/twitter).
Make sure your webhook supports POST requests for incoming events and
GET requests for the CRC.
Register your webhook URL with your app using POST
account_activity/webhooks.
Use the returned webhook_id to add user subscriptions with POST
account_activity/webhooks/:webhook_id/subscriptions.
I am trying to fetch emails received and sent from zoho account.
I want to trace all the emails coming to me in outlook or I am sending from outlook.
I have seen zohoCRM, rubyzoho but not able to get things done.
Any suggestions on this.
What you are looking for is a way to build a simple email client with ruby.
There is a simple Ruby Mail library which can get the work done for you. For quick reference, you can check the section "Getting email from a POP server"
Zoho supports POP Access. You should be able to get the access details from there and use it.
The Ruby mail library also support IMAP access and so does Zoho.
I am new to Mandrill and its integration. Can anyone help me to figure out the advantages of using Mandrill? What can be done using Mandrill other than sending messages and tracking them?
Mandrill has many uses. You might have seen those on their website itself. Actually its a Mail Transaporter like PHP mailer, but it uses their own server for sending mails.
As said on their website,
Mandrill runs on a globally distributed infrastructure that can
deliver emails in milliseconds.
This is because when you send a mail through their SMTP or send.json (API) method, the send mail possibly see the fastest path algorithm to deliver a mail. That's why it take milliseconds to deliver. They have ~7 different mail servers worldwide for this.
Major Features,
Sending mails fastly than our own server using PHP Mailer.
Sending mails via pre-designed templates which can be reusable by the merge vars we're using.
Support multiple language platforms like, cURL, JSON, Python, PHP, Ruby, Nodejs, Dart and also their depending frameworks.
It tracks clicks from the mail we sent. For Ex: each and every url link in our sent mails is redirected only after tracking from mandrillapp site. This enables mandrill to track the no of opens in a mail and track analytics.
Through mandrill we can construct our own mail sending application or integrate into an existing application.
It's mostly used for Transactional Messages like functions like welcome mail, forgot password, cart details and etc.
It can be integrated into other shopping cart web applications.
Their api call works on even in the developer environment.
Lesser spam.
Verified domain options like DKIM and SPF settings. This enables the mails to identified by major email providers like gmail, google, etc.
It can be used as SMTP version and can be integrated into major SMTP applications.
Reports: Demographics of email send, Compare status, Which url in our mails has been clicked and no of counts.
Setup rule for delivering emails.
A/B testing, custom SMTP headers, Inbound domains and etc.
There are many other features in developer perspective. If you mention in which platform you're trying to use mandrill addditional details can be provide.
Hope this might help you.
To name a few, You can
1) use templates to do A/B testing ( which allow you to experiment with different templates, and end up with something which is effective).
2) use Embedded images , which will reduce the chance that your emails will end up in spam.
Hope this helps,
I am new to mailing with webapps. I looked around and found Sendgrid and Mailchimp. I can see that sendgrid's developer section has a simple smtp url that i should be able to use simply. However i don't find any such thing on Mailchimp. I am wondering how I can use mailchimp to send notifications like User registration or confirmation notification (not necessarily large number of emails blasted altogether but individual notification emails). Right now my application is set to use sendmail in rails.
Can anyone give me clues as to how I can use Mailchimp as the service for sending notification like emails and not mass emails. So far it seems like mailchimp may be more for just mass emails, is that correct?
Thanks
Sendgrid is a simple SMTP provider and relay. Mailchimp is more designed for email marketing using their toolchain. I would reccomend that you stick with sendgrid for simple notification messages but use Mailchimp for email campaigns and complex notifications.
So yes you initial guess is correct that it the two services are to be used for different things. However if you really want to use Mailchimp for email notificatons I would be more than happy to dig up some information for you.