I would like to compose and send an email programmatically via an iOS app. On a successful send, I want to be able to store a copy of the sent email as a file so that I can integrate and store the email in a document/contact management system.
Does anyone know if this is possible and if so, which libraries are available? I have had a look at some of the SMTP libraries on GitHUb but cannot find how to save emails as a file
You can not save an email from email composer in iOS.
All you need to do is, You can generate email format file manually with code (as you already have all the data of email) and save it if you get success flag in delegate method when user send an email.
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I am created slack bot, is there is any possible way send reply message as file? (I need to sent some file as reply message based on input). I tried using api file.upload it make the file as private not able access using url, but if i am upload to channel using sampe api, file is public, is there any way to send direct message as file by bot)
Yes. You can share a file directly and privately with a user by sharing it in a direct message channel with the user.
Just put the {user-id} of the user you want to share the file with in the channels parameter of the files.upload API method and you are all set.
Your slack app will need the files:write:user scope. This also works with bots.
Example for user with ID U12345678:
curl -F content="Hello" -F channels=U12345678 -F token=xoxp-your-token-here https://slack.com/api/files.upload
I am developing an application on Rails and I need to know if its possible to write code which will notify me when the user opens an email that has been sent from my application (need to track this info) ?
The main bit of data I need is was it opened.
thanks
You can do this but there is no 100% certainty you will always get a notification.
SMTP has 2 standards, they are DSN and MDN. Both are in effect optional, there is no guarantee that the email system of the targeted email recipient (your user) will implement them too.
The easiest way is to pit in a "Return-Receipt-To:" (RRT) email header. Put some address as the content of the header. Now when a user opens an email message containing this header, the clients email reader will msot likely prompt your users whether or not to send a return receipt. If the do comply and email will be sent to the address you specified.
In Rails it could be something like:
themailer < ActionMailer::Base
def notify_read
headers['Return-Receipt-To:'] = 'notifyread#mysite.com'
mail(:to => 'users#somecompany.com')
end
end
You could just use an email address you monitor and read them manually OR you could set up rails to read these emails as well. But there is no guarantee you will ALWAYS get an acknowledgment.
Additionally you could check each email domain, many of the big free email providers have proprietary methods of requesting the return receipt. If you add ".readnotify.com" onto the end of your recipients email address you will get a return receipt. You will have to research all the big ones though.
For example:
user#yahoo.com.readnotify.com
Hope that helps
Source: http://railsforum.com/viewtopic.php?pid=147997#p147997
A common way of implenting this is to include a link to an invisible image file, with the link including sufficient details about the email for you to be able to identify which email is being viewed.
When the image is requested by the mail client, your server can then record the viewing attempt. If you use a 3rd party email provider (such as sendgrid, postageapp) then sometimes they'll do that for you and ping your server with the appropriate event. I strongly suspect that this is what readnotify is doing under the hood (someone took the trouble of looking at this a while ago
This isn't completely accurate as some (many?) users turn off remote image viewing in their mail viewers.
My app creates an email that can have sensitive data in it (depending on the users perspective). Is there a way on the iphone's email client not save a copy in the Sent folder.
And in the same way, if the user choses they can send it via text..is there a way to not have it be in the Message streams.
I'm thinking there is not but I'd love confirmation of this if possible. I've been scouring but can't seem to tell if it's possible.
Thanks.
I'll break this into two parts:
Not putting a copy of a sent message in the sent folder:
There's no easy way to do this since you don't have access to a user's mail. You could have the user enter their email service's IMAP details and write your own mail sending implementation that then goes and deletes the sent message from the server, but it's possible that mail clients would keep a local copy regardless of what happens on the server if they grab the message before you delete it. Regardless, this is a really terrible user experience (having the user enter IMAP details, not using the built in mail composer) and it'd be difficult to write (and you would need to be insanely careful about deleting something from a user's mailbox, and you'd have to ask them if it's okay to do so).
Not showing a text message in a Messages app conversation stream:
There's actually a way to do this. Text messages can be sent to users via a specially formatted email address that's different for every cell service provider. For example, to send a text to a Verizon subscriber it'd be 5551239876#vtext.com. For this solution to work you'd need to send the message using some sort of automatically generated email address that you retrieve from a mail server you've created, and then you'd need to implement your own SMTP mailer on the device. Of course, a user can always request text message transcripts from their cell service provider (and some have easy access online) and there's no way around that.
How sensitive is this information? Email and text message aren't very secure protocols. You may want to consider alternative methods that provide encryption and authentication mechanisms.
No its not possible if you are using the built in mailer in iOS. Something you could do if you wanted to get around this would be to make a customer mailer, send the information to a server and send off the mail through code but this is quite a bit more work.
i have a problem with mail sending: magento doesn't send any mail, i'm trying to use the sendfriend functionality (i've extendend the ProductController of that Sendfriend module), but the problem is about any email (i've tried to do a registration or to change a password, but no email was sent). backend settings seems to be ok:
System->Configuration->system->Mail sending settings->disable Email Communications->No;
System->Configuration->system->Mail sending settings->Host ->locahost;
with the same settings on another local magento installation the system send emails correctly. what can i check?
you don't need to do any coding stuff. Its already available in Magento. You just need to enable the option of Email to a friend from the back-end. Hope this help you.
I am pulling email into my app via imap using Net::IMAP and copying the mail into an All Mail folder then marking it in inbox as deleted.
This then enables a backup of all emails for the user in All email folder and my app only pulls in emails from the inbox not flagged as deleted.
This works fine for gmail but i am trying to do it for horde webmail.
I successfully pull in the emails but cant seem to flag them as deleted and copy them to another folder.
Here is my code for doing this in gmail :
imap.uid_copy(uid, "[Gmail]/All Mail")
imap.uid_store(uid, "+FLAGS", [:Deleted])
Any one help with this? What should the "[Gmail]/All Mail") be changed to for horde webmail? Is this different for all email like hotmail / yahoo etc?
Any help on this would be great.
thanks
rick
can you try this?
connection.store( uid , "+FLAGS", [:DELETED])
...
connection.expunge()
e.g. "store" instead of "uid_store" ?
I'm not using Horde, but the above line is working for me for several IMAP servers.
Also make sure that you call connection.expunge on the mailbox where you flagged the messages for deletion..!
e.g. look at the net/imap API for #expunge:
http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/net/imap/rdoc/classes/Net/IMAP.html#M001441