After user registers, I send an email with a guid link to click to validate the registration.
It confirms the email exists, but how does that help fight spammers?
Can't bots 'click' same link back to the site and validate registration just the same?
It verifies:
the user has typed their e-mail correctly (since this is the only way you have of contacting them, lets get it right)
the e-mail address exists
it is owned by the person requesting the page
Indeed - it doesn't prevent bots from accepting e-mails from their own e-mail account, but it stops them accepting e-mails from my account... this in turn keeps you out of the legal quagmire of being accused of spamming some random Jo. Everyone wins.
It makes sure that the user is the actual owner of the e-mail address. You don't want them to enter in just anyone's e-mail address and start having messages from your site e-mailed to random people.
You're right, it doesn't prevent spammers. All it does is create another obstacle for users trying to use your site/service/app. Is that something you really want? You should be removing obstacles, not creating them. It sounds like you're solving a problem you don't even know you're going to have or not.
I have a gmail account with a short user name and am often getting email not intended for me, often sensitive stuff like password data or shipment IDs. This happens because some people simply don't know their own email address. If there was some email verification, I wouldn't have to suffer this and their privacy would be preserved.
It all depends on how much you think your users will tollerate.
If you running an online store you want to minimize the number of roadblocks along the way or the user may drop out prior to completion of a purchase.
If it is an online forum or similar then the user may be open to going through more hoops.
If its a free online newspaper that requires validated registration to simply read, people may just go elsewhere instead of bothering.
You need to balance what the user will tollerate with the site needs and offerrings.
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Here's the situation:
I receive emails from a colleague that, as a consultant, has multiple email accounts. He's not always careful which one he uses. However, replies back to him have to go to a specific email account regardless how it was sent. There are almost always others that need to be copied on the "reply all". Since it's impractical to reliably review every email reply, and there are several of us in the this situation, I'm looking to hack my way around this.
It looks like I can create a rule in Outlook that, maybe, adds his preferred email as a CC address but then it means the email reply goes to 2 places. My preference is that it only goes to one place.
Bonus question: Is there any way to make this work when replying from my iPhone? That is, is there a server-wide approach?
Double-bonus: My coding days are a distant memory, but I was able to hack together a VBA script for something else a couple of years ago. Anything to point me in the right direction would be great.
Thanks.
You can set the reply-to address in his outlook profile. It should follow him around to other clients.
My company has a policy of only sending passwords via encrypted email. However, that takes a little more effort then just asking and sending a quick message during a thread. Is there a way for Teams to reject a message containing a word, in this case password, and give a rejection message?
Thanks
This isn't a programming related question, so this isn't the place to ask it. I'll answer it anyway though.
We call this "Data Loss Prevention" (DLP) and it's available in some versions of Office 365. We have not yet added it for Teams but it's definitely on the roadmap. Please use "share an idea" via the Feedback (lightbulb) icon at the lower left of Teams and add your vote.
We have Exchange server 2013. I am testing a security method to warn users when external emails are received. This is I am doing by putting "EXTERNAL" text in front of subject-line of incoming emails except if the email-subject already has the text. This is working fine.
Now, what I am trying to do is to remove the text "EXTERNAL" when user will reply to the email. I am having a hard time getting a way to achieve it. Exchange rules, so far I have looked into, does not have anything to remove from subject-line, only to prepend.
How can I do it? My goal is to flag incoming external emails and show it users Outlook client in a way so users would see. I want to use Exchange server built-in functionalities, or from Outlook if the settings can be managed by group-policy and users wont be able to change it.
Thanks and appreciate your help.
I do not know the answer but my search for a way to strip "[External]" and "[EXT]" from the subject line of all incoming emails is what brought me here. It seems IT in so many companies has decided this is a great idea and I just want to share my thoughts that it is a HORRIBLE idea and I wish everyone would stop doing it. You can no longer group all emails by subject line and bring everything together, which is seriously inefficient. There HAS to be a better way to teach your employees to not click on spam/scam links than messing with the existing subject lines. This may be my pet peeve of the century.
I have a problem with the link with MailChimp. The problem is that MailChimp is sending an email to confirm subscription every time somebody is filling any kind of form. But, I don't want MailChimp to do that, because my prospects are not subscribing for newsletter (I mean, not each time they are filling a form). So, I'm afraid my prospects will run away when they will see that strange email in there inbox.
Is there a way to shut this email off ?
Thank you.
A confirmation is good to know that users exist or you want be sending it to people whose email addresses were bought but are no longer using them. Also buying an email list is not recommended (not saying you are), it will affect the deliverability of the campaign and not to mention complaints can cause black listing. Now having said that try and see if you can change the optin status from double to single (even if they give the option). I know dotmailer does/used to give an to change a user from double option to single optin.
Recently i deployed Magento store And made some test order,
where following observation i made on Transactional Emails.
New Order email is triggered to my gmail account, if i use account associated with it.
but when i used another account to make purchase, that order is placed but New order mail is not being triggered to that email.
Based on above observation i am afraid that theirs possibility that emails might not get delivered to some others emails also.
Now, I am looking for some solution that will solve this or possibility is that i might have missed some configuration.
please help
You can use SMTP Pro Email, which is an extension that allows Magento to send all its automatic emails, from any e-mail service you want, even your gmail account for example. With this solution, you can try several e-mail server/services and finally pick the one that is not blocked or flagged as SPAM.