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I would like to create a backup of a Gmail account into another Gmail account. There could be many reasons why would someone like to do this, but in my case my Gmail account got full but instead of deleting messages would like to archive them in another account.
I was thinking about using POP3 / all / fetch from another account, but I would like to keep the folder structure and POP3 destroys it.
As far as I know IMAP would be the best way to keep the folder structure, but when I tried it with Thunderbird, it could not reliable copy messages from one IMAP to another IMAP.
Are there any script or software (preferably running on Windows, but I can run Virtualbox), what would mirror an IMAP account to another one reliably?
Gmail itself can do that, as in associating an account with another and automatically grabbing the emails from one account to the other.
Go to 'Mail Settings' --> 'Accounts and Import' tab. You should see:
Import mail and contacts: Import from Yahoo!, Hotmail, AOL or other webmail or POP3 accounts.
which does that exactly. You can choose whether to leave the emails on the other account or not. And I think that's all you need.
The corresponding gmail help page
So, using a Google Apps account won't do that. What you can do is backup your mails locally somewhere and upload/restore them to the new account later.
I think Gmail backup fits you. Please take a look at its features and notice its flaws(ie can't handle labels that use characters other than [a-zA-Z0-9]) and also see this question related to having a Google Apps account.
Other than that, there is Gmail keeper that was made for Google Apps email users, as the site states. You may want to take a look at that.
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I was wondering around to find if its possible or not.
But,
I want to forward the feedbacks that i received on orders by our customers (buyers)
to my personal email account.
Actually,
When a buyers places a feedback to an orders, I just want that feedback to be forwarded to my personal email address.
I was looking at the amazon forum, but didn't get any response.
Also, I am trying to find the solution on google, but noting helped me.
Please help me and tell me if its possible or not.
Thanks,
Assuming your using MWS (per your previous posts)
Forwarding the data to your personal email can be done, but probably not how you expect.
For the MWS API there is no facility to communicating to anyone outside of MWS. In order to take whatever information you want and forward it to the appropriate parties you will need to leverage whatever programming language you're using to send the email via code.
i.e for Java check out JavaMail, for C# look at this post and for php check out the mail API.
The key with working with MWS is knowing that the MWS API is specific to only MWS. Any additional functionality needs to be included by the implementer. So essentially it is up to you to parse the feedback report, extract the required data and email it to the interested parties.
Hope that helps.
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Is it possible to create an email account under Linux* in the terminal? I've been looking to see if it is possible to generate email account dynamically for user registration purposes with my website.
I've found lots of valuable resources on stack overflow and elsewhere regarding sending and receiving email, but none in regard to actually creating an account.
To answer your question, it is possible to create an email account/address via the command line on a Linux/Unix system.
The first step is to create a user account on that system for the user in question. There are different ways to do this. I found this guide, The Ultimate Guide to Create Users in Linux/Unix, to be one of the better overviews.
The next step requires understanding that email on Linux systems is often handled by two different systems/commands.
First is sending email. This is done quite often via sendmail. If a user can execute sendmail, then they can send mail via smtp to the world. This overly simplifies things, but it provides enough to get you started.
Receiving mail on the system and its delivery to users depends on the mail system and protocols being used. If you are using postfix, then the following article shows how to setup an email account.
My answer assumes you are not using LDAP or another directory service to maintain users.
This question probably belongs over in serverfault. I couldn't find an exact match to it over there, so I answered it here and flagged it to be moved.
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I have an Openfire server with some custom users that act as bots and send chat invites to GMAIL accounts.
After 6 month of working perfectly well, suddenly, since yesterday, my users cant send anymore chat invites to GMAIL, since today. They just don't receive invites anymore. I didn't change anything nor install the new Openfire version. Just happened.
If I do it the opposite way, from a Gmail account I invite a Openfire user, it still doesn't work, but I check the server and there are subscription sent as "none". I have to change to subscription type to "both" and then it works. But I need it to be from my Openfire TO Gmail accounts.
Everything works good if the GMAIL account is a Google Hosted Domain with DNS configured correctly. Also, any other XMPP server like JABBER works fine also.
It seems that something suddenly changed on Gmail side. I'm quiet lost, I don't know what to check, what to change to make it work again. My Live Chat service relies on this and I had to stop accepting new users...
Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks,
Here is possible explanation to this problem http://mail.jabber.org/pipermail/operators/2013-March/001610.html.
GoogleTalk now has whitelist of servers to connect with to avoid invite spam.
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I have a service that requires an active e-mail address where users can receive notifications. Users can optionally receive notifications on multiple e-mail addresses by adding them.
Should I require a new e-mail address be confirmed before I activate it?
Should I require an e-mail address be confirmed before changing it?
I'm looking for best practices. I'm not dealing with any sensitive or billing information.
Yes. Doing so protects users who have had their site accounts compromised from having someone change the main e-mail address and completely lock the user out of his account.
This is good practice regardless of whether or not the account protects sensitive information because nobody wants to deal with being locked out of an account by an attacker.
Yes, it would be best to do so. Imagine.. What if the email address they provided is not correct(misspelled) or not existing or worse--someone else's? Regarding the last case, I don't mean that your service is spam, but simply that the notifications they had hoped to receive would be sent to someone else. I think it would still be beside the point even if no important information is included in the notification--it would be a matter of the wrong person receiving notifications meant for someone else. :)
I would suggest that you have to confirm the new email before it can be changed so you still have contact with the user. The old email could potentially be stored in a separate database so is not visible to the user and only deleted when he/she has confirmed the new email.
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We have a website hosted on a shared hosting plan. It works for now but we are running over our limit for smtp emails. Our host charges us for anything over 250 emails sent. We send out daily alerts, password reminders, etc to our users (on an opt-in basis w/ the ability for them to easily opt-out).
Can we use our localhost server for email but still host the site on the remotehost? If not, are there any other (free) options?
Can you already send mail from your local server? If so, have the code in your web site pack up the information that needs to be sent that day into one email. You'll have to figure out the format to use so that you can separate them on the other end. Send it to a mailbox on your local host that is monitored by a process that unpacks the email, splits it up into separate emails, and sends those out directly. If your web host has a size limit on emails, you'll need to figure out how to break your daily output into chunks to avoid going over the size limit as well.
Or, pay a little extra to be able to send out more emails per month from your web host, which would be less complex, less prone to errors, and easier to implement.