Questions tagged [email]
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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 in english and clearly not in french.
I don't…
siukurnin
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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 they receive.
However, I'd like to also give users…
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What is the best way to work with mailing lists?
Many open source project have mailing lists a preferred way of communication. If i just sign to the mailing list via my g-mail account i will see ~100 messages per day that are not threaded but just a plain list. What is the preferred way to work…
grigoryvp
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What is email ingestion and are there modern uses for that technology?
After reading this question Reasons NOT to use email for system integration
I want to ask the opposite question.
What is email ingestion?
When it is OK to use it for process or system integration?
Tulains Córdova
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What programming issues require a delay in processing a mail unsubscribe request?
Whenever I unsubscribe from a mailing list, I see that they say something like 'The change will take effect in 10 days/30 days/etc'. I would assume unsubscribing is just removing my email from some database. What is the idea behind making me wait so…
chitti
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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, switching between Smtp and AmazonSES or Google…
Shelakel
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Should we avoid 'legitimate' spoofing of “From” address or just ignore DMARC failure
I am on a team building a SAAS application. Part of the application will send out scheduled reminders to our customer's clients. The project description is asking for the ability for our app to send out those reminder emails using an email address…
skribe
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Responding or Maintaining Emails - best practice
I would like to hear how you manage your emails when you get lot of emails on a day basis. Here some of the things that I follow,
Read emails and respond for 2 hours once. I will not disturb my work for intermediate emails unless until I got the…
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Need to figure out Timesheet via Email
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 timesheet and send it back via email for it to be…
user39839
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Send server side file as attachment in a web application
In our web application development project, we need a feature that lets the users to email themselves an attachment (~1MB) which resides on the server.
I was considering two alternatives.
Upon clicking on the email button
Download the attachment…
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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 tested all do "the right thing" based on the file…
Heinzi
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Common practice in handling bounce message
At now I mainly create a mail account separately (with different domain name eg.noreply@example.com) and i add this mail as one return path. So the bounce message will only go to that mailbox and i parse the mail message one by one to check the…
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Can an email exist in multiple message boxes
I'm in the process of writing a mail server stack and it's a fairly critical design decision as to whether a unique message can appear in more than one message box. Simple cases are easy to make a decision on (e.g. a message obviously cannot exist…
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What characters to limit when user enters an email?
I have a backend that does not support emoji characters in all of its fields, so I want to block them directly in the frontend application. I'm in the register section, and I want to limit the possible characters for the email field.
I know that RFC…
Eradash
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What is an email payload?
When we mean e-mail payload, are we talking about the whole message provided after DATA command or just the Body part of the message (without headers like From, Subject, Message-ID etc)?
S: 220 smtp.server.com Simple Mail Transfer Service Ready
C:…
Giri
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