I'm a big fan of being one click (bookmarks bar link) away from composing a Gmail email. Now that things have moved over to Inbox by Gmail, the link no longer works.
I used to use this url https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#compose and I actually just figured out that I can hack the old link to still work with this link https://mail.google.com/mail/?ibxr=0#compose
Anyone know what the new proper link is for Inbox?
You can do it with "https://inbox.google.com/?mailto=mailto%3A" or with an address at the end if you use something like Alfred to dynamically fill a value "https://inbox.google.com/?mailto=mailto%3Aexample#website.com"
The Inbox compose URL allows to specify the to, cc, bcc, subject and body query parameters. None of them is mandatory. An invalid field will be ignored, but no error will be raised.
See the url below for a complete example:
https://inbox.google.com/?to={to}&cc={cc}&bcc={bcc}&subject={subject}&body={body}
PS: On a side note, this could be useful to configure Inbox as the default email client for Safari on macOS. See this response for more details.
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I would be interested to know if there is the possibility to deactivate the email markup for gmail, because it happens that in some situations Gmail puts one that is not correct in terms of the information it shows.
Our application does not have the email markup set when sends an email, but Gmail does it its own way and with errors.
Regards.
I am importing/creating drafts in Gmail using the Gmail API. After creation I'd like to redirect the user to the Gmail UI with the opened Draft in the composer window.
I made it work properly for https://mail.google.com/mail/#drafts?compose=[MESSAGE ID]. Other urls I found here also worked well. Gmail is doing some redirects and eventually the composer window is opened with the draft.
Now my issue:
If the user has not enabled "Conversation view" this will not work at all. The redirect will then result in https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#drafts?compose=new and only an empty, new composer window is shown and a new draft is created by the UI.
If I open the draft directly the ID-format is different. https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#drafts?compose=hJzgZpSqgLQcCWgZqnlNRzRBfMbjZVnZklzvcFxhQCdwT... and I have no idea if this format can be generated somehow.
Does anybody has an idea or experience to also make it work with this UI setting. How I can force Gmail to load the draft into the composer window?
Thanks in advance.
If you have Email Threading > Conversation View enabled
Make use of the following URL
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox?compose=DRAFT_MESSAGE_ID
If you have disabled the Email Threading > Conversation View option
Make use of the following URL
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/DRAFT_MESSAGE_ID
Additional information
The main difference between them is that the first is treated as a conversation while the second example is not.
You can use #drafts instead of #inbox in the URL.
The number after .../mail/u/ is the session you have opened
You can retrieve the DRAFT_MESSAGE_ID by making a request to the API
You can approximately generate the compose ID by yourself, there are some examples out there (not recommended). I strongly recommend you to use the DRAFT_MESSAGE_ID instead.
This appears to still be an issue the one solution I did find was that you can find your draft directly (even though it would be the last draft) and go through multiple accounts by redirecting to
https://accounts.google.com/AccountChooser?authuser={user account}&Email={email account}&continue=https://mail.google.com/mail/#search/rfc822msgid:CAMU-31NcJCVHyGNsAycRKfuS0nMonoaZ6wFMD90Sej996qjuPQ#mail.gmail.com
You need to get your message id toi replace the area from <> from your draft. So you'll have to create the draft first. Get the google message ID, then use that with messages/get to get the Global Message Id (also referred to as message id) and then use that with a search. At this point you'll open a page with a search to a single draft but it will not be opened. Your users will have to click on the one message. Unfortunately there does not seem to be a way to have the good way work for conversation view, and this way work for non.
I tried many different URLS and nothing worked. As noted in the original question, it might work that you could link to the full URL but I see no way to get that. If you spend long enough working with an email you'll even find that ID changes so they aren't even stable within a single day.
Another solution that could work is as explained:
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/DRAFT_MESSAGE_ID
But as noted this does not open the draft on the first time you go there. It seems you have to travel to that link 2 times in a row to get the message to appear. I guess you could go to the page maybe inject some javascript to go to the page again but I don't know how to do that.
Am sending a mail to gmail.com with a header.
MimeMessage.addHeader("List-Unsubscribe","<http://www.example.com>");
Eventhough the header is present in original content of the mail, unsubscribe link is not shown in mail. Kindly advice.
As my understanding from Google Support Link you need to have prepare some conditions like your try and Amazon Recommendation but finally google decided for show unsubscribed link in top of your emails.
Also, based on Official Gmail Blog:
This only works for some senders right now. We're actively encouraging
senders to support auto-unsubscribe — we think 100% should. We won't
provide the unsubscribe option on messages from spammers: we can't
trust that they'll actually unsubscribe you, and they might even send
you more spam. So you'll only see the unsubscribe option for senders
that we're pretty sure are not spammers and will actually honor your
unsubscribe request. We're being pretty conservative about which
senders to trust in the beginning; over time, we hope to offer the
ability to unsubscribe from more email.
How did you expect it to be shown? Where did you look for it?
Gmail, like most mail readers, doesn't show raw headers. It shows the header information it thinks is relevant. If you want to see the raw headers, there should be a "view source" or "show headers" operation to see them. If you view the message source, and this header is not present, then some mail server has removed it.
When receiving emails in Google's Inbox, usually you get as image a coloured circle with the first letter of the contact's mail.
But in rare occasions, there will be an image placeholder, like for instance the example I paste for YouTube. (I know YouTube is owned by Google, but I have seen many other examples)
Is it possible for me to make my own address to have its own image, when someone received an email in Inbox? If so, how?
In Short, this is because you likely don't have a Google+ page with a linked domain matching your email address.
The longer version: Link is here...
EDIT: Seems like this is not a popular answer...
Here's a fuller version:
This Article seems to provide a good overall answer. I'll do a quick summary here.
As a takeaway:
Ensure your site is verified on Google+. This is done in Webmaster tools(link), and your webmaster must approve.
Ensure you have adequate email traffic (seems around 1k a week should do it).
When sending from a domain not matching Google+, you'll need to include a snippet of code in your email, and have Gmail approve the link.
Ensure that your email is authenticated against your domain and not your ESPs (or use the Featured Image markup).
This questions is related: Email Sender Image from Google+ Account
Earlier versions of the Notes client would automatically turn a sent URL into a clickable link for the recipient (regardless of mail client) but with 6.5 (and presumably later) this no longer happens; that is, the URL is sent as plain text. The Notes UI allows it to be done via the Create->Hotspot->Link Hotspot menu but this gets tedious.
I'm looking for a way to create a Link Hotspot in LotusScript. My research to date leads me to believe that this isn't possible but there may be a hack of some kind.
The automatic conversion of urls into clickable links is a user preference.
In 6.5 it is set via File/Preferences/User Preferences/Basics. In 8 it is set via File/Prefences/Basic Notes Client Config.
I don't think you can create a url link hotspot explicitly using lotusscript. You can create a doc link, but there is no obvious way to turn it into a url link.
You could try an approach where the form is set to render passthrough html on the client and then construct the relevant html for a link.
Update in response to comment.
The scenario is that we want to to control what a user receiving mail sees. We have a few cases we should think about.
The recipient is using Notes and received the mail directly via notes to notes routing.
The recipient is out on the internet using any client and allows email in a rich format.
The recipient is out on the internet using any client and only allows email in plain text.
In the first case the user will see links if they turn on the option for that. You could also create pass-through html in the rich text and that will render on the Notes client assuming the form option is set in the design. If it's straight email and you don't really need any other rich Notes features you could also construct a MIME message.
In the next two cases you just want to send properly formatted MIME messages. In the first of those cases the user will accept rich formatting and therefore you can construct the message as simple html and include links that way. In the second case the user will not, and you have to make do with plain text. Luckily most mail clients will automatically turn urls received in plain text messages into links for you. This may be an option as in the Notes client.
It is best practice when sending rich mail content to also include a MIME section for plain text. That way you don't need to care what version the user prefers.
You need to cheat and create a MIME entry to get your links. Going that route you also can take the opportunity to make it look really nice. The sample code is on this site