I would like to integrate a ticket or support into my VB .NET app but I dont know how to do it properly. I would like that when someone opens the support ticket they can send like a regular email to my email.
I just need help with how to send email from the app to my email address.
Is this possible, and how would you solve it?
Look at using the System.NET.Mail namespace. The sending will be done via the SMTPClient class built into the .NET Framework.
You'll have to use a mail server like GMail I'm guessing, unless they have their own SMTP server (but you probably won't want the hassle of setting up and storing details for different clients' servers).
There's a good example of this here, which includes VB.NET and C# examples: http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/20546/How-to-Send-Mails-from-your-GMAIL-Account-through
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I need to set up series of emails with time delays in mailgun.
I'm not sure this is possible without connecting to a CRM like ActiveCampaign, Mailchimp, etc.
If it's possible, can anyone share how it works?
Thanks in advance.
Mailgun is a transactional email service that gives you the ability to send emails from your own web applications. If you want to create a drip campaign like you mentioned, you’d have to add such logic to your web application either through a cron-like task or similar.
There is Mailjet from the same company that offers email automation (another name for drip emails). While I don’t have hands on experience with Mailjet like I do Mailgun, it should be a WYSIWYG interface like what you’re interested in.
At the end of the day it really comes down to what you’re after. Do you want to add email sending to your own applications where you design every aspect of the sending and scheduling logic, or do you want a tool available and ready to go.
Best,
Is there anyway to receive email in mvc, I'm imagining it probably involves setting up a smtp server and having the app poll every so often.
The scenario I am thinking of is tracking emails that are not being able to be sent for various reasons like invalid email address, receipient server down etc and we'd like to track those so we know whats going on and read the error response we are sent.
The other thing I'm not 100% sure of its how you would tie the messages together, I'm guessing you could do a reasonable job with checking the message title and recipients but a better way might be to specify a custom header however I'm not sure if these would still get sent by the mailer when they are replying back to us with the error, any ideas?
I think I've done this before but I use the third-party commercial component for ASP so I'm not sure that what is your main operating system server or whatsoever.
But you might check the source code and the component as well to help you through and build this application.
The source code is dope and wide, you might download, check and learn from that.
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Hope this helps and GBU
I am using 8.0.1 SP1.
I have not been able to find a definitive answer for this so far. Does the messaging server control have an option for notifying the user via email that a message has been sent to them? Email is set up for the site and working. In my site, I have community notifications set to email in my profile. I have ek_EnableMessageBoardEmail set to true in web.config. I do realize that there is a difference between message board and the messaging server control but I am trying everything. Is this possible without coding the functionality? If not, can someone point me toward some starter code?
I also posted this question at http://dev.ektron.com/forum.aspx?g=posts&t=41480
Thanks.
Zach
No this is not possible. The Ektron Messaging control can only send internal messages within the CMS to other users. The server control produces markup that looks a bit like it might be email but it is not.
The Messaging control does have the ability to send an email to a community group but not individual users.
See Ektron's documentation here.
You will have to code your own custom solution to this.
Hi I am new to MAC OS development and I want to send an email programmatically trough an application, but without using Mail app like in SBSendEmail from apple's site. I dont want to attach any attachments, just a plain text email. What is the best and easiest way to do this? is it possible to use the basic functionality from SBSendEmail and automate the last step of sending mail through MAil app? Is there no easy way just like in C# to create a mail object and just send it?
Thank you.
There's no way to do this in pure Cocoa, except to use one of the three or four email libraries available (Pantomime is one I know of off the top of my head). The main problem with all of these is that they're designed for implementing a full email client, not just sending email, so they're probably more heavyweight than you need.
For Growl's MailMe display, I wrote a command-line mail-sending tool in Python. The Xcode project bundles this into the MailMe display plug-in bundle, and MailMe runs the tool using NSTask, passing the SMTP info it finds in the user's Mail preferences. Growl is also open source, so you can read the source to the MailMe display.
Things that won't work:
The Message framework, which has no public API in 64-bit.
The mail(1) tool, which requires the user to have the local SMTP server running (simple-mailer uses another SMTP server, whose name you pass in on the command line).
Note that MailMe currently does not understand how to look up MobileMe passwords, so it isn't yet able to send using MobileMe accounts. If you amend the code to do this, we'd appreciate a patch!
Another patch opportunity is that MailMe currently only looks in Mail's preferences for mail-sending settings. It could look in other clients' preferences, but does not yet know how to do that. If anyone who uses Thunderbird would like this capability, again, we'd appreciate a patch.
I would suggest you make use of /usr/lib/sendmail if present. Open a pipe to /usr/lib/sendmail and send the mail on stdin. This should be available the OS.
I know how you can use the api in vb.net IM
I wish simply by pressing a button sends a message to all my contacts.
I apologize for my ignorance but I'm still learning, thanks
You don't mention what IM network you're talking about so I'm assuming you're talking about Live Messenger. If that's not the case, only the bit about Pidgin might still be relevant.
Unfortunately, my understanding is that nowdays there's no easy API for doing what you want, and you might have to write your own client to do this, here's a website that discusses the protocol:
http://www.hypothetic.org/docs/msn/index.php
You might also want to look at Pidgin since it supports Messenger and is open source:
http://www.pidgin.im/download/source/
There's a Live Messenger API, but I don't think that can be used to send a message from a standalone VB.Net desktop client since it seems more for writing Addins to the standard Live Messenger client, but here's the information about it in case I'm wrong:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa905675.aspx
If you're running XP or earlier you might be able to use the Windows Messenger SDK:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms630961%28v=VS.85%29.aspx