I need to send emails form a script where the SMTP I want to send by varies per message. Using mailx, one may specify the SMTP server, TLS options, username, and password on the command line. However, I need to send embedded HTML emails (not as attachment), and mailx does not support that, according to various posts I've found and time spent pulling my hair out trying to get it to work. On the other hand, with sendmail I can send embedded HTML, but it seems the SMTP server options have to be in a config file, and I don't know how to override them from the command line. So how do I send embedded HTML while specifying custom SMTP options?
I gather you're looking for a low-level solution, but this is so straightforward in Python that I think it's worth exploring. There are several examples of literally exactly what you're trying to do right here in the documentation.
I also answered a similar question here.
Even if you're unfamiliar with Python, those docs pages pretty much spell out the whole program for you.
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When I list folders I don't have 'snoozed' folder there.
I Googled and it seems like 'snoozed' is sort of internal label that is not available through IMAP (is it correct??). So I want to find where 'snoozed' mails are really kept.
Can I do it using fetch command for instance? How?
There is a really good explanation that this is something that it's not possible in this thread.
Pretty much the Snooze feature is implemented internally within Gmail UI and so Imap clients won't be able to replicate this behavior, therefore you won't be able to find emails snoozed when using a mail client.
I have a bunch of emails which are written using MJML. The output HTML seems to be correct.
As an email sender, I'm using AWS SES. But after sending, all my CSS styles in an email are broken. To send an email, I'm using method ses.sendEmail.
I have tried to use CSS injected in HTML head and inline styles. Does not work.
What could be the problem with it? Thanks!
First, check your HTML. Send it through either of these free sites: https://www.putsmail.com (requires a free Litmus account; they're an established and reputable Email Service Provider, ESP) or https://useparcel.com/ (an editor for email HTML; put your HTML in the editor and use their free send feature). With putsmail, don't accept their offer to inline your CSS for you--that'll change your HTML.
When each email arrives, compare the HTML received to what you sent. Diff tools are helpful.
I just sent a 1300+ line HTML file through each of those. For both, every character arrived unchanged, except for blank lines after the </html>. That's okay with me!
Compare the rendering to what you see in one of the MJML rendering tools (maybe https://mjml.io/try-it-live or the MJML desktop app https://mjmlio.github.io/mjml-app/). Do not depend on the rendering in any one email client as fully representative of the HTML; most of them have quirks. (I'm lookin' at you, all Outlooks except Apple's! And GMail. And Yahoo!. More at https://caniemail.com/ .)
I did a little research on AWS ses.sendmail. There's important advice and information at both of these.
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/DeveloperGuide/send-email-sendmail.html
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/APIReference/API_SendEmail.html
I found an SO ticket from a little less than a year ago that could be relevant.
AWS Amplify SES sendmail AccessDenied
Recommend you review all that. Maybe something there will improve your experience.
Last, some standard advice from the world of email HTML. If you get sendmail working, perhaps it doesn't apply.
Send your HTML using an ESP that doesn't change your HTML. For people sending lots of email, there are lots of good reasons for using an ESP. Many provide valuable services. By the same token, some ESPs change the HTML before sending; lots of us avoid them.
I hope you get it figured out. Email HTML is, as you're experiencing, anything but easy.
I am doing my assignment given by the lecturer. On the title stated, my idea is about setting up a mail server on the server and we can send the email from the client, all the email is stored in the server virtual machine. Do my idea is correct on this title stated or any recommendations?
Sending mail is not that hard, especially just using (E)SMTP, tcp
text dialogs. Or you can use Linux mail commands.
Storing mail, either locally or accessing mail on a pop or imap server, poses
another set of challenges.
And of course, you need the HTML web pages as well as the services.
Attaching files can be another challenge, both uploading the files
and encoding them for inclusion in the mail.
JAVAScript can make some usual features of email clients easier, like sorting a list of emails in a folder or from a search by a column ascending or descending.
Searching email is an even bigger challenge!
Anyway, I have a script that I want to run whenever I receive an email on gmail. And if possible a subject specific email. is such a thing possible and if so, what programs do I need to allow it.
You can't instruct gmail to trigger an external script for you. I think you've got a few basic choices. In order of increasing difficulty and complexity:
1) Configure a gmail filter to deliver your desired messages to a special folder. Write a script to poll that folder, download (or delete or mark as read) messages it finds there, and then launch your local script. Set up a cron on your local machine to run the script every few minutes. You can poll the folder with IMAP or the GMAIL API. IMAP is probably easier. This will be tricky with shell, you're better of with Python, PHP, or similar.
2) Configure a gmail filter to forward your desired messages to an address on a mail server that you control. Use procmail or similar to intercept the incoming messages and launch your script.
3) Set up an account at Mailgun and configure the emails so they get delivered there directly. (Or forward from gmail as in #2.) Configure Mailgun to launch an API request when it receives messages. Build an API handler to receive the request. Launch your process from your API handler.
I have never done it, but I guess the first thing you should do is to take a look at the Google's Gmail API...
What is the Gmail API?
The Gmail API gives you flexible, RESTful access to the user's inbox,
with a natural interface to Threads, Messages, Labels, Drafts, and
History.
It seems to fit what you want - at least, without knowing the details of what you want to do.
The Gmail API can be used in a variety of different applications,
including, typically:
Read-only mail extraction, indexing, and backup
Label management
(add/remove labels)
Automated or programmatic message sending
You can use several programming languages - maybe the trick is using your programming language of choice to write a wrapper for the .sh script... I hope this helps!
I have a ticket system in PHP. People report tickets over email. A mail parser connects to the mailbox using IMAP, downloads the email and parses it to create a ticket which can be viewed/updated over the web interface.
Now I want my application to check if the downloaded mail is a spam before it creates a ticket out of the mail. So I thought of integrating spamassassin. The docs say, it can be implemented as a proxy. I am not sure how to do this.
Basically what I want is a way to pass the email as a string to the spamassassin perl script which validates the mail?
Has anybody done something similar before. Can you suggest some other related good tools?
Edit: I am using Google apps mail-server. So its not an option to integrate SpamAssassin at the MTA or MDA stage.
Can you install spamassassin in your webserver? because spamassassin supports pipes. you can make a syscall from php to use spamassassin from command line and parse the answer. Or you can use this http://ppadron.blog.br/2010/05/04/php-api-to-spamassassin-spamd-protocol/ Or you can use a reliable antispam service for your domain.