I need a script that does the following: If any cell in a doc has been changed, then send email notification to custom address. I want the notifications sent every hour, not immediately (so if I'm editing the document- I don't want to get email every second...).
the current script I'm using is sending email notification for EVERY little change I'm doing...
Is that possible to send the notifications as a summary every hour or so?
I don't know if this is an acceptable solution for you. I did a work around for this. First I created a separate gmail account just to own docs. (This is because google does not notify when the owner makes changes.) I then forwarded the docs owner account to my outlook. In outlook I set up automatic forwarding rules to the address I wanted. I still have the problem of sending an email with every change but at least the people are informed.
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When a user verifies their email address, I want to receive some notification on my client app (iOS/Android).
I need this to ensure that I can unlock additional capabilities for those users whose address is verified. How can I achieve this?
Currently, the only way to do this is to call the reload method on the User object. However, it is not an ideal way of dealing with this situation – after all, I have no idea when they would click on the link. So, performing a reload every time my app becomes active seems excessive.
Maybe there is a trigger which I missed?
Well, what I do is, each app launch I query the user object for its verification status; if it's not verified I send a verif request right there, if not sent before, and if it is and it's the first time, I show some thank you text and move on. I don't think there's an actual notification you can hook with for when the user clicks the link in the email, but alternatively you could build an admin node function server side to check every now and then for verifications and send pushes to the relevant devices.
I want to build an app in swift to send sms or email on scheduled date and time and the data need to be stored in database. I know we need to use MFMessageComposeViewController or MFMailComposeViewController for sending sms/email but how to send only on scheduled date?
For example: I want to schedule a sms for birthday wish of my friend on his birth date and let the app send the message on that specific date or time.
Can somebody share any tutorials related to this type of questions?
It sounds like you're trying to send emails and texts without prompting the user to fill in their content. The classes you mentioned are used to present views that allow the user to fill in the message content, like shown below.
If you would like to send email from the app without using the users email address and allowing them to fill in the content, you'll need to use an email service that provides an API, like Mailgun.
Unfortunately, you won't be able to send emails when the app is in the background. To do this, you should use a backend server to schedule emails.
I'm developing an app that creates a simple document with basic information created by the app. It won't contain any personal information, but it will contain data created and requested by the user. I want the user to be able to send this to themselves via email. I would also like to add the option for the user to have this file (which updates daily) to be able to send to them automatically every week/month, so they won't have to think about it. The user can set the intervals themselves.
Is this possible? The user will set up this option themselves from a menu, so it's not like they won't know it's happening. Every automatic mail will also contain information on how to turn the option back off again.
Is this possible and is it allowed by Apple?
Thanks for your reply
It is not possible from within the app. A user has to explicitly send the email through the MFMailComposeViewController.
If you want this functionality, you should build a backend for your app.
To clarify, if you want to use the users configured accounts; i.e. the account they use with Mail, then no you cannot do this automatically. The other answers rely on the fact a user enters their POP/IMAP settings, which personally I would never do.
You could use an email service as mandril or mailgun, to send emails "from your app".
Take a look at this: https://github.com/rackerlabs/objc-mailgun
There's a library called MailCore that's incredibly powerful. You can use it to send mail in the background of your app without needing to present the built in mail composer view
https://github.com/MailCore/mailcore2
I have an app that sends email to registred users. This app sends an automatic email to the user while he is using some functions. Plus, on the admin screen, the admin can send emails to all persons that didn't get the email sent automatically for any reason. I store in database a value showing if the email was delivered or not, so the admin won't send emails to someone that already got one.
The problem is: how can I check if the email was delivered correctly in order to update this value? I am not talking about tests, I need to check right after the method deliver is called if the email was sent, or if any problem happened, like connection loss or email is invalid. Is there any method or way to do this?
Thanks.
When you send a message and no error is raised, you can assume that the mail was delivered (at least you can assume that some system accepted the responsibility to deliver your message).
Nevertheless, there are many reasons for delivery failure; sometimes you may get an error hours or even days later. You will need to have a bouncing mail address and inspect returned messages. If you want to process bouncing, inspect an open source software with bouncing treatment such as phplist. This is no so trivial as you might think.
Another alternative is send e-mails through a dedicated service such us SendGrid. This services provide APIs that will allow you to retrieve information about your messages.
You can also use the mailman gem to parse reply email messages for bad email.
I'm using ActionMailer in Rails 3 to send periodic emails. I need to know whether an email was sent correctly (as far as it is possible to do so).
#lists.each do |list|
email = Reminder.deadline_reminder(list)
email.deliver
end
Is there a property of the email object (class Mail::message from the Mail library) that will tell me whether the send went correctly (no connection issues, authentication problems, etc)? I've looked through the classes on Github but haven't been able to figure anything out.
It all depends on what you consider successful.
You can test to see whether your code sent the message. You can often check the log to see if the mail-forwarding host received it and moved it on toward its destination.
But, only proprietary mail systems support delivery-receipts. SMTP doesn't and probably never will because of privacy issues and the inability of the mail-client vendors to agree on how to do it. So, even if it is delivered all the way to the intended destination there's no way to know if the person read it.
Your best bet is to put a link in the message that the user clicks which will tickle an app on the server with a token that was unique for that message. When the app sees the token it sets a flag letting you know they got the message AND at least read the part about clicking the link. Then, if there has to be a response within a given time you also track when the message was sent and escalate if the token wasn't received back within the time-limit.