This is for a company intranet app, so everyone is using firefox on XP and I can install whatever is needed.
We'd like to setup an email with a pre-made subject and attachment (similar to using mailto), but the mailto spec doesn't allow attachments.
Any ideas how it can be done? Perhaps using a ff extension?
update: The file is a network file at the company.
update: A good deal of customisation happens in each users outlook, signatures etc. that we'd like to keep.
You're probably much better off providing a form for the users to fill out and and doing the email from the web server. That will give you the most flexibility.
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I am not new in computers; I am a .NET developer, but was presented with this great opportunity to develop in PHP, so I took it. There is a need to open an Outlook/Item (email) form the website; is that even possible? I know there is functionality in CakePHP to send emails but client wants to use their own Outlook application.
Any pointer would be much appreciated! Have a great coding day...
There ist no easy Way in PHP. PHP will be executed on a webserver and not on the client computer.
There ars some ways to solve this, depend on your needs:
You can open the standard mail-client with an HTML-Link like this:
E-Mail senden
If this is too rudimentary, you can send an nice formated email via smtp/sendmail to an emailadress.
cakephp mailer class documentation
You can also try to connect via IMAP an put mailobjects into the draft-folder. There are some basic PHP functions for this: PHP IMAP documentation
Only in the first case, outlook will open the email in a Window.
I am somewhat new to code, and even more so to the Google Apps API. In the organization I work with, I have so far managed to write a couple of console apps that we run to apply signatures, and manage mailbox delegates as needed.
In regards to the Email Settings API, specifically the signatures portion, is there a way to check this box:
"Insert this signature before quoted text in replies and remove the "--" line that precedes it."
via the Email Settings API? I've looked through the API documentation, and even the .NET api reference docs, with no avail. Any advice will be helpful.
This feature was available while it was a lab (through the admin console, not API), but not anymore now that it has 'graduated'.
It has now been submitted as an official feature request. Hopefully more people request it.
I was told that setting the footer through the API does show up before quoted text, so if that is true, and all you need is a footer for everyone in organization, you might be in luck.
What is the best way to automatically download multiple email attachments on gmail from multiple emails (a lot) (preferably with filtering by Sender/Title) on Ubuntu linux? Should I go with a firefox attachment or is getmail4 reliable, or should I try some programmatic way (I can do Ruby, but not many other languages)?
Consider reasking your question in a more specific manner. I managed to find
https://github.com/dcparker/ruby-gmail
and
https://github.com/nu7hatch/gmail
Both of these will allow you to access gmail with ruby, do a search and download the emails.
I'm using the MVC helper WebMail to send emails. However the speed of it seems to be of concern. Especially when I have to send more than 1 email at the same time. I tried using a thread, but that didn't work since the Webmail object was null. How do I speed this up? Any ideas appreciated.
Forgot to mention, this is during testing and I'm using localhost and gmail! Not sure if that is causing the issue.
Thank you
If you want performance, don't use the WebMail helper. Use the classes in the System.Net namespace.
This allows you to open a new thread and send the email out-of-band from the web request.
We use Google Apps mail (gmail) in the cloud, opening a new thread, and sending the email from there, using the System.Net types (not WebMail). It works pretty well, as we can respond to the user without having to wait for the email to be sent.
Be careful about using Google Apps / gmail though, especially in development. We had one of our accounts disabled by google because of this. During development, you should use your local ISP, or better yet, use SpecifiedPickupDirectory, as it works better when unit testing email receipt.
I might be missing something but I'm trying to implement a contacts retrieval mechanism akin to the one that is offered by Google for Yahoo and Hotmail. Both APIs seem to require the user to actually go to their sites to log in. The documentation is really convoluted for both. I was hoping someone has done this and can point me to a simple way (if there is one) to allow the user to log in directly in my app and then for me to go and fetch their contacts for them (preferably in XML, but JSON would also do nicely).
I currently have a Perl script that goes and gets the gmail stuff and works very nicely. I was (maybe wildly optimistically) hoping that Yahoo and Microsoft would have similarly useful mechanisms.
Check out Open Inviter: http://openinviter.com. It has Yahoo, Hotmail, and many more :)
Seems http://openinviter.com domain is no more. There are few other providers available in market out of which I liked https://socialinviter.com, give it a try.