I would like to send automated emails to outlook groups using ANT scripts.
Using ANT's mail task to send to receipients separatd by comma and it works fine.
Is there any way how to send mails to Outlook group via ANT tasks?
The ant mail task works the same way - whether it is individual email or group email. So long as the email-id of the Outlook group is specified in the same way as individual recipients, it should work.
Do note that the Outlook group as visible in Outlook is often not the same as the email-id. For instance Production Support could be the display name in Outlook, but the email-id could be product-support#myorg.com.
Added SSL="false" for the ANT task, it started working.
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I have a Rails Application (5.2.3).
There is a Model called Invoice.
The User can import Invoices through a view, uploading a XML file.
Now, the stakeholders are asking to have a mailbox where any User could send XML files, and the files will be automatically uploaded to the system.
The System is currently running on AWS, so a just created rule in the SES (SIMPLE EMAIL SERVICE) for a x#x.com mailbox to save all the messages in a S3 Bucket, to be parsed lather.
I could just do a plain script with everything(get files from S3, extract XML, Create Invoice) and schedule a runner. However, what is the Rails way for this kind of situation?
I read about Service Objects, but I'm not sure if it's the best place to have this task.
Thank you
You are talking about parsing inbound emails, e.g., Someone sends an attachment to upload#yourdomain.com and you want that attachment to be uploaded in your system. To achieve this, you need to configure your Amazon SES console properly and set an endpoint to your application which will handle the incoming webhook callback from your mail service with the content of the email. You can read more about this here
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/DeveloperGuide/receiving-email.html
Recieving emails with AWS SES/SNS
I could just do a plain script with everything(get files from S3, extract XML, Create Invoice) and schedule a runner
You can write a rake task for above and run it as a cron job or as an infinite loop to pull files every x seconds
You could also use Mail gem to periodically pull the emails and extract the XML attachments and create invoices. for e.g pull last 10 emails every minute
My intranet web application (written in C#/ASP.Net MVC) sends email notifications in certain situations. I would like to intercept replies to such emails and perform actions based on the content of such replies.
I have no preference for scripting language - it could be Powershell, Python, VBA, anything - as long as I can parse the subject and body of the email, I can then alter the database of my web application through this script and pick up changes with an automated task, but I really have no clue where to start. I would be really grateful if someone could point me in the right direction.
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How can I intercept emails sent to the Outlook server and perform action based on the content of such emails?
It sounds like you need an inbound email parsing service. I've worked with the one from SendGrid and it will catch any replies to a specific email address, and then post the email contents to an action on a controller in your MVC app. This will give you access to the full email contents and you can process it as needed.
See Setting up Inbound Parse
I am using Jenkins email-ext plugin to send email messages. I would like to send 2 email messages - one with 1 attachment that is sent to 1 person and a second email with another attachment sent to another person.
Is that possible using this plugin? From what I have found in the documentation it seems that only one email can be sent.
Thanks in advance.
You could modify your process to use three Jenkins jobs; one for the build, and two for emailing.
Use the Jenkins Parameterized Trigger Plugin to have the build job start the email jobs when it's done. You can either pass in the location to the zip files or some other parameter to know what zip file to use in the email jobs. In "Projects to build" you put the name of your email job. You will add two triggers; one for each email job, passing in unique parameters to each.
If you setup multiple triggers, multiple emails will be sent out. You can have multiple triggers of the same type as well, so if you want to send out two emails for failure, just add the failure trigger twice and setup different recipient lists. Each trigger can generate a separate email.
What I would like to accomplish is for a user to be able to send an email to a designated email address. Then once that email has been obtained, run a script that parses the body section of the email and carries out various tasks with the information provided in the email
(The data coming in from the email will be structured in an xml type format).
In my mind this seems like a simple task to accomplish but I'm not all that familiar with the inner workings of email. My questions are:
How will I know once an email has been obtained from the sender so that it can be processed?
How can I use php to obtain the text found in the email?
If you have PHP running on your mail server, then it's possible to pipe incoming mail to a PHP script. Then, your PHP script can parse the body of each incoming message as it arrives. See http://harrybailey.com/2009/02/send-or-pipe-an-email-to-a-php-script/ for more info.
I agree with the other responses, that piping to a php application should be your first option (if the mail server and php are the same)
Otherwise if you have an external mail server you will need to poll the email address at regular intervals and check for new emails.
Extracting plain text body from an email message is not too hard, but getting to attachments can be a pain sometimes.
You will need to use a cronjob to trigger your script at regular intervals
To fetch the email from the server and parse it, I have used the php IMAP functions
http://php.net/manual/en/book.imap.php
You can also use 3rd party services like MandrillApp which will receive the message, break it into parts, and call your application via a webhook.
http://help.mandrill.com/entries/21699367-Inbound-Email-Processing-Overview
I'm trying to implement a webmail in PHP. I would like to write a PHP CLI script which is run on every email arrival to store some parts of (not all of) incoming email into database for search purposes. Then when the user finished searching and chose an email to show, a connection is made to mail server to retrieve the complete email. In order to implement this scenario I need to make some sort of connection among emails within database and mail server.
Since my knowledge of working with mail servers is limited to Zend Framework's API, what I believe I need in order to retrieve an email from an IMAP server is a message number or a message unique id (this later one seems not to be supported by all mail servers).
To this point, I've managed to find .forward (and some other ways) to introduce my PHP CLI script to MTAs to be run on every email arrival. This way I can store emails to database. But this won't do since message unique id is created by MDA so MTA do not know of it and they can not provide it to me. This means I can not find emails later when I want to retrieve them from mail server.
At last, here's my question: Is there a way to introduce a PHP CLI script to a MDA for emails' arrival? If this is dependent on the mail server, which servers do support this and how? My personal choice would be Dovecot or Courier, but any other mail server would do as well.
This is tricky -- there are many ways on how to setup delivery. Some of them work with the underlying mail store directly, bypassing your IMAP server altogether, while others use e.g. Dovecot's facilities.
Have you considered building on top of the notify plugin which ships with Dovecot?
It seems like it's impossible to introduce such a PHP CLI script to IMAP server (at least I'm sure of Dovecot). Anyway, the work around I found for this problem is to use my own PHP script to insert the new mails into IMAP server and retrieve their id's and then store the id in database for future references. To be clear, email are given to my PHP CLI script by MTA, not MDA. As I said before this is done easily using .forward file.
[UPDATE]
Unfortunately it seems this solution can not be implemented as well. The way to insert a new email to IMAP server is APPEND command, and to have the UID of the recently added mail server must support UIDPLUS extension. Neither Dovecot nor Courier supports this extension at the moment! If they did it seems the server would return the UID with a APPENDUID response.
[UPDATE]
It is my bad since Courier does support UIDPLUS. So this solution is valid and the one I'm going to implement.