I am adding different email address in reply_to instead of using same as in from option. Here is how I set reply to..
$this->email->reply_to('example#gmail.com', 'Any Name');
But setting reply_to email results in Email to go in promotional tab of gmail instead of primary tab.
If I don't use reply_to, only then email goes in primary tab. Is there a way to save email in primary tab while keeping different email address for replay_to?
That is the purpose of reply-to -- to offer an alternate reply address, which gmail correctly identifies as a marketing email. Though that's not the only reason they might flag your email as a promotion. Trying to outsmart their algorithm is probably not your best bet.
There are some strategies to help ensure your emails get to the primary tab, one of which is making the reply-to the same as the from. Requesting that your recipients white-list your reply-to domain is also one way.
https://keap.com/business-success-blog/marketing/email-marketing/how-to-keep-your-emails-out-of-the-gmail-promotions-tab
https://www.convinceandconvert.com/email/how-to-ensure-emails-gmail-primary-tab/
https://www.websiteplanet.com/blog/11-ways-keep-emails-gmails-promotions-tab/
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I want to send a email to the user from my laravel application. But i want to add a hidden token in that email so that user cannot see it and when user reply to that mail i can read that token and further use it.
Is it even possible?
I am using laravel 5.6 and sending emails using SMTP
There are several ways to do it but none is ideal. Let's start with your idea:
You can add a token within the message, but it can never be invisible, the contents of the message have to be fully visible. Even so, if the reply simply doesn't contain the original message, you will lose the reference
The standard way of tracking replies is based on Message-ID, since every email has to have unique Message-ID. Since you mentioned that you are using SMTP, that allows you to setup Message-ID upfront, otherwise, you'd retrieve it after the message is sent. It helps in a way that you can store that value in the database and automatically link it to the recipient.
Then, you'd look for In-Reply-To: and/or References: headers which should mention the original Message-ID if the reply is properly formatted, which doesn't have to be the case.
Ultimately, depending on your use case, you might not need any of these and you could just keep the sent email based on the recipient email address and extra information that you wanted to pass in the email within your database. Assuming that you'd expect an email from the same recipient email address, you could just figure out the token locally.
I came across this as the only other thing I could find that resembled what I'm asking: http://office-outlook.com/outlook-forum/index.php/t/84123/
I'm sending an email through Office 365's SMTP server as a notification that a form was submitted to my company email address (me#company.com) from our company RSVP email address (rsvp#company.com). I am setting the From Name to be the full name of the person filling out the form and the reply-to email as the person's email address textbox.
Here is an example of what part of the message header might look like:
To: <me#company.com>
From: Test User <rsvp#company.com>
Reply-To: <test.user#gmail.com>
In Outlook, since rsvp#company.com is an actual mailbox within our company, it automatically displays the sender name as "RSVP" (which I suppose is what was set when the mailbox was created). Is there a way to bypass this and display the sender name in the message header instead?
No. Exchange always resolves all sender and recipient names to their primary SMTP address and default name. Just the way Exchange works.
You can extract MIME headers and modify the message sender related properties on the client side after the message is received using Extended MAPI (C++ or Delphi) or Redemption (I am its author - use RDOSession.CreateOneOffEntryID / RDOSession.GetAddressEntryFromID / set RDOMail.Sender and RDOMail.Get_SentOnBehalfOf / RDOMail.Save). Note that OOM will not let you set the sender related properties even using MailItem.PropertyAccessor.
In my web application, I need to send an email to a group of people.
If I make the email addresses of the group of people as the TO addresses, then each recipient will be able to see who other recipients are and their email addresses. This is not what I want.
I want to make the email addresses of the group of people as the BCC addresses, which I am able to. However, I want to show "Our Team" as the recipient in the email to everybody. How can I do this? I googled but did not find useful information.
Any info or pointer is really appreciated.
Thanks in advance!
You can put whatever you want in the To header, including a fake email address, and then use the send method to send the message to whatever recipients you want.
But, you should ask yourself what you expect to happen if someone does a reply-all to the message. Do you want the reply to go to all members of your team? If so, you really need to create a mailing list, which will simplify the process of sending the message as well. Most mail server support some sort of mailing list capability. If you're using your own mail server (e.g., your company mail server), you may also want some mailing list management software.
From what I've been reading the SPF can be used to validate email addresses by sending commands (rather than an actual email) such as HELO. I've managed to pick up a basic grasp of the policy but I can't get my head around how I'd go about solving the following problem:
I've got a number of email addresses attached to contacts in a CRM system and I'd like to find out if the email addresses are valid and still in use.
Currently we're using a REST Web Service (http://emailinspector.co.uk/) which returns "Ok" (if its ok... duh), "Bad" (if its not valid or not in use) or "Unknown". For Unknown, you are also provided some notes on why it came back with that, i.e. you are told if the Mailbox is full or if its a well known DEA.
I'd like to be able to program a script that can replicate this functionality and from what I've worked out it should use the Sender Policy Framework to do this? The problem is I don't know how I'd go about returning such precise information for "Unknown" email addresses.
Ideas and thoughts?
Actually SPF is just a text record, with some "hints" to let you know if an IP address or mail server is "allowed/Authorized" to send email for that domain. It doesn't tell you anything about an individual email address in that domain..
for example
[doon#qix:~] host -t txt labratsoftware.com
labratsoftware.com descriptive text "v=spf1 a -all"
The SPF record for one of my domains says that only the a record for the domain is authorized to send email for labratsoftware.com, and that if it doesn't come from that IP then it should be rejected (-all).
So the best you can do with SPF is tell that a received email came from an authorized host, and then use that information to help decide if you want to reject it or not.
The best way To test the validity of an email address you have, is to email it, and see if it bounces. You can use options like VERP (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable_envelope_return_path) to automate the bounce handling. You can also try and connect to the MX records listed for the domain and try to deliver a message that way. Some Mail servers support verify (But most admins disable this to prevent information leakage). You can use RCPT TO to see if the server accepts it, but even if it does , you have no way of knowing if it will actually make it to their INBOX. My guess is that is what the API you are currently using is doing. And unknown are just ones that either don't answer, greylist, etc.
So, here's my situation. We have a department that needs the ability to use queues in CRM 4. They also need the ability to reply to e-mails that come to that queue from their department e-mail address. (So that any customer responses will go back to the queue to be handled by agents)
I originally was going to build a JavaScript customization that inserted a checkbox that said "Send From Business Unit". Toggling this would look up their department user based on the e-mail address on the Business Unit. I successfully got this working (as a concept), but found that actually sending triggers the dreaded "CrmCheckPrivilege failed."
Which is good, because that means CRM is actually enforcing security.
So my problem? I have no idea how to replicate this functionality and it's a must have for this customer group. Is there anyway to modify the e-mail after it's already gone through security checks via a plugin? Perhaps a pre-stage send plugin?
I want to be reasonably certain of success before I commit a lot of time to this solution. I'm also open to any other ideas too.
Thanks in advance,
Clif
Well, first, a "CrmPrivilegeCheck failed" can always be fixed by adjusting the user's roles and giving him the appropriate privilege (the privilegeId is always returned in the exception but may not be shown in the particular error dialog you are getting) and level, but this may not be wanted by the department.
A solution we have used is just slightly different from yours: Do not send the mails through another user, but through the queue. Queues can also be eMail senders in MSCRM. The queues should already have the correct eMail addresses set in order to work properly with the eMail router. Set up a way to determine the correct queue (like a field on the systemuser entity or a hardcoded queue name in your JavaScript) and set the from lookup accordingly in your JavaScript. That way the eMails will be sent using the name and address of the queue, so any direct replies will always have that queue as the recipient.