I have contacted Google Support and they have directed me here
I'm using a Mail Merge AppScript which can be found here
Code can be found here
It says that it complies with Google's daily quotas for sending mail but I'm only able to send 50 emails per 24-hours with a G Suite Basic account which has a listed quota of 1,500 recipients per day (however the Google support colleagues said it's 2,000).
I am sending to individual people and Bcc'ing a different email to each of them (the Bcc email is the same email for each unique recipient), which, I believe only counts towards 1 of my daily allowance as the quota is for unique email recipients, right?
Anyway, I send using the mail merge script and it works for 50 people and then says the limit has been reached yet I'm able to send regular, manual emails from mail.google.com which suggests the limit for my entire G Suite Basic account has not been reached but instead is something on the side of the app code?
Google Support linked me here and said that my quota for scrips could be increased by asking... It seemed a bit weird to me but I'm going along with what I've been told
Thanks for any help or suggestions :-)
Kai
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I use a backup app to backup SMS text messages to my GMail account registered on my HTC Desire Z Android 2.3 phone.
The app requests access to the gmail account. But what does this actually mean? Does it mean:
the application has write-only access to the gmail - i.e. can insert emails but not delete or adjust other existing emails (does the Android API provide for that?)
the application has full access to the email, and could potentially delete emails if there was a bug
First off: this question doesn't seem to belong on Stackoverflow. This site is for asking specific questions about coding problems, not about how some code in some program based on some SDK on some device may or may not work.
If an application can access your Gmail account, as far as I know, this means full control, including deletion.
That doesn't have to mean there is actual code in the program that even tries to delete something, but I guess you're right: coding bugs could probably delete your email.
But that goes for a lot of applications: you trust the developer to test extensively before you rely on him/ her to handle your photos, email, passwords etc with care right? :)
Problem Background:
I have a 35K+ user members and growing fast. I am planning to migrate to Amazon SES service. Amazon SES has a criteria to reduce the quota or even terminate service based on bounce-back emails.
I send promotional emails to my members. But the fear is that there are email address which are no longer exists so a fair possibility that Amazon SES notice me and take action to reduce or terminate my service. I need to make sure I have valid email address which do not disturb SES.
Possible Solution:
To cope this problem I am planning to do the following procedure for each email address;
Step1. Collect the MX record for the email domain.
Step2. telnet to that MX domain
Step3. Verify email address with the following pattern
EHLO my_domain_name
MAIL FROM:<my_valid_email#my_domain_name>
RCPT TO:<email_to_verify#my_user_email_domain>
I will verify the response after each command trigger such as email is valid if I receive 250 status after RCPT command
Now what are the possible precautions I should care about to be not marked as SPAM or rejected by the remote server???
I guess you have seen this question here: How to check if an email address exists without sending an email? ? That talks a bit about the disadvantages.
I am no expert but I suspect that it is going to be pretty hard to guarantee that someone won't blacklist you at some point or that you get 100% accurate results from this, or any other method for that matter.
For your scenario though, maybe that does not matter too much - just try to do the check infrequently so that you reduce the number of guaranteed bounce backs and if you send only a few that get bounced back it won't matter too much. On top of that you can have your own system that handles a bounce back and makes sure you do not re-send to that email again.
Doing all of that may be just "good enough" to work.
You may get very different answers from what you expect. Many (most?) e-mail systems set up to prevent spam won't give away user information just like that. My own server, for example, will say 250 OK for every address on my domains, even if those addresses are in fact non-existing.
What you should do is have a system which reads those bounce e-mails and remove unused addresses after a number of bounces. A good way of doing that is having different sender addresses for each message (or at least for each recipient), making it easy to connect bounce messages with their intended recipients. This technique is sometimes called Variable envelope return path.
I was recently working on a project that involving connection to a POP3 Server. I was using this piece of C# from CodeProject(http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/6062/A-POP3-Client-in-C-NET), had complied it into a DLL and was using it in VB.NET.
I'd connected to my Hotmail Account (not many mails) and it seems to work just fine. After that, I connected to my GMail account... I started seeing errors!
POP3 is meant to fetch emails only from the Inbox. Even when I made my own program to cross-check the problem, I saw that when I requested for the number of messages, the GMail POP3 Server returned a value which is about 5 times less than the actual inbox size.
255 Emails in my Inbox?? Online it shows me 2,414 emails in my Inbox.
And secondly, my MAIN QUESTION is that how does one fetch the LATEST email from the POP3 Mailbox. What I've fetched here was an e-mail with ID 1! I want to fetch the top 20 emails (that were most recently delivered to the account)...
Is there any work around for how to fetch the LATEST email from the POP3 Server rather than the oldest emails? I've also tried to connect to the Hotmail POP3 Mail Server. Again a "RETR 1" command fetches me the oldest email and not the latest one! Any known work-around?
I think your question is answered here: "Incorrect message count using STAT command" http://groups.google.com/group/Gmail-Help-POP-and-IMAP-en/browse_thread/thread/8be2c0b2bf383c15/7c57310cd5b11fc9?pli=1
[Update on 2016-06-30: The above link will not necessarily work, demonstrating why link-only answers are frowned upon so...]
The messages are made available in batches. After retrieving a batch, re-connect to get the next batch. Repeat as required.
in AUTH, instead of using:
USER foo#gmail.com
use:
USER recent:foo#gmail.com
instead of using pop3 u can use imap ptotocol to retrive all mails from GMAIL inbox.
Is there a way to create a filter in gmail programatically for gmail users as well as for free google app accounts?
It seems that the e-mail settings API is only applicable for Google Apps for Business or Education accounts (http://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=60228).
Aayush.
I would like to know whether anybody knows the answer, because a good gmail filtering app is sorely needed for android users!
I looked everywhere and finally found this:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.digitalchemy.springclean.gmail&rdid=com.digitalchemy.springclean.gmail&rdot=1#?enroll=yAb5pZ2MYWwmoft_rED3OYt6t0U%3D&purchaseButton=Dw2xBTSDPLCsKHcCnowBY0VcYUU%3D&addInstrument=NyJt6qfLAWzk-RVX01VtYp73FRg%3D
I don't like that it costs 3 dollars and uses 7megs of space. The source is closed, and I'm trying to guess how it does what it does.
This is the most recent link I've found as I try to make my own filtering app and service:
http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2010/03/oauth-access-to-imapsmtp-in-gmail.html
So, it appears that the API is (as you stated) for Business / Education accounts only, and Google doesn't support Sieve in their IMAP account - http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=78761
As I see it - your only option would be to create a custom IMAP client that creates & stores rules on your own server, and then manipulates the email locations "manually" - a rather taxing process if you ask me but doable :)
EDIT:
Here is a little tutorial using Zend_Mail for moving gmail emails via imap
http://www.devcha.com/2010/06/how-to-removemove-messages-using-zend.html
How have people intergrated custom CRM type applications with email?
I have a Access 2003 front-end application with a SQL Server 2005 backend. One CRM
part of the application tracks the activity with the customer in a traffic
log table. Sometimes the salesstaff has communication with their customer
using email instead. What do people do to synch this up with an application?
I was thinking about creating a form to enter the initial message, so I
could save it into a table and then have the system generate a email, of
course, this doesn't handle the email communication after the initial email.
Thanks
What you need to do is setup your domain name with a free google apps account. Your sales staff can still use the clients of their choice, but since they are essentially using custom gmail accounts, every single email that they send and receive will be recorded in a nice and neat transactional format in the gmail interface. Since your sales staff is always online, they will always have access to every message they ever sent. If you want to have access to the emails, you can set it up that every single message that gets sent are automatically blind forwarded to your account. Filters can be set up to automatically tag and archive them, so you will not be overwhelmed, but you will still be able to search them. Google Apps will also give you a central contact directory similar to outlook/exchange.
Here are a few options for you:
Use web forms for all communications. When a message is sent out, the only thing it includes is a link back to the site. Responses are sent the same way.
Setup an email alias that your sales staff Cc's when they want their correspondence to be tracked. Your app would periodically read a POP mailbox, and record the traffic. Customers would have to remember to Cc the same email box for the traffic to be remembered.
Establish a single common email box, such as sales#domain.com. All outgoing mail is marked as being from that account, so all replies will go through it. To send mail, sales staff uses a web form. Messages are tagged with a key that associates them with a particular customer. Putting the key in the subject header usually works OK (that's how many support ticket management systems work, for example). Replies from customers keep the tag. Your app then reads an associated POP mailbox, parses out the keys, and stores the email accordingly.