I'm not talking about something like cURLs or SMTP server
I have an stupid idea that instead of building a upload system, user can email for me with attach file.
So I think if gmail (or yahoo..) has an API to embed the SEND Mail page with a free account to my webpage so that all the user can use it?
Sorry for my bad English :D
You could either simply provide an email address and ask that people send emails to it with their attachment(s), or create a HTML form which allows users to upload a file which is processed by CGI. I use Uploadify on the front end, and a Perl CGI script to process the results.
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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!
3 différents people in my compagny need to send the same e-mail every time their is someone new.
What's the best wait to send this email using gmail
From what i saw they need to give me their password. Is there a better way ?
Yes, there is. If you write a program and it has a configuration file, then the email address can be defined in the configuration file. You can then hand over the program to the others, who will use it on their own, changing their credentials in the configuration files.
I am working on a web application which allows users to share stuff on a web-page by clicking on an 'email to friend' link; similar to what extole is doing here
http://www.american-giant.com/mens-heavyweight-full-zip-hooded-sweatshirt-product.html
on this page if you click on the email icon near "REFER & GET $15", you will see a pop-up where you can enter your own email and a friends email and can edit the subject of the email. When you click send the data is sent to the backend as json. They are using a plain simple url to do this i.e. http://refer.american-giant.com/v2/share.
The problem for me is that somehow spammers got hold of my url (can't mention here) and now they are using it to spam others by using some sort of a script. What I did is I placed a check in the backend api to block an ip if more than 5 share requests originate from it, but it seems that the spammers have a lots of ips (more than 30,000 from what I counted in my logs) so they are still able to send lots of email. One possible solution is to use a captcha to thwart the spamming script. But I am curious that how extole is doing it. They aren't using any captchas; and they are famous too, so it is unlikely that spammers don't know about their publicly accessible api. Can any one shed some light on this?
Note:
1. I am using a third party email service to send the emails.
2. Users are not required to sign in as this defeats the purpose of sharing on a simple website
3. Users can edit the subject and body, thus these are sent to the api call and this is what allows the spammers to abuse the api with their own stuff.
Is it possible to send a text message or email automatically from a chrome extension triggered by an event on a web page? This is for notification within a company, it's not meant to be used by third parties so it's not a privacy issue.
One possible way that you could do this (if you have a webserver) is sending the user to a page that is hosted somewhere online, and run a PHP script that emails the user. You would have to use this method because:
You can't easily use PHP in a chrome extension
You can't send emails through Javascript/jQuery
Is there a way I can create an addin for my Gmail account? Is GreaseMonkey the only real way?
I use Gmail for customer service, and I'd like to create a tool that looks up the customer and preps a response to them based upon who it is in my database... instead of looking by hand for the client and typing it out.
You can add gadgets (same as iGoogle and wave) and add them to the side bar in GMail, but you will not have access to the e-mails themselves. You could create small lookup forms and such, though.
I don't see how else you could do it. You won't be able to run your own app on Google's backend, so that leaves the client (with javascript and something like GreaseMonkey) and your server (perhaps communicating with the client via AJAX).