I'm trying to create an email service web app but I do not want to deal with mail servers.
I'm only interested in creating the front-end web interface.
The ideal situation would be when a new user signs up, I create a mailbox on said service.
I would also use the service to pull emails from mailboxes, write to these mailboxes ( email tags) and possibly use the same service to send mail.
The closest thing I could find was mailGun.com but at this time it stores mailbox passwords using plain text -_- . They stated that this will be resolved in the future.
I also looked at postmark and emailYak.
Anyone know of any other services ?
I'm using Qboxmail that provides API for Email Hosting:
http://www.qboxmail.com/it/documentazione/api-email-hosting
I've not used them, but how about context.io
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I created an application in VB.net that ties into a scheduling software. It keeps our employees up to date by sending them SMS updates. Employees can reply back to us. Sending messages works great. The application uses the Rest API to connect to Twilio. I can also get a list of incoming messages but I can't seem to get it in a way that works well for me.
Currently my application checks if there are new messages every 5 minutes. The application gets the messages list (with filter DateSent>=today) and then loops through the messages and copies the new ones into our scheduling database.
Is it possible to do a more efficient data pull for new SMS messages using VB.net only? Can I include a time filter in addition to current filter DateSent>=today to limit the result set? Any suggestions? (I don't do web coding unfortunately) Thanks.
Twilio evangelist here.
The best way to do this is just to use Twilios web hook to let Twilio proactively tell you each time its received a message. Whats a web hook you ask? Great question.
A webhook is simply an HTTP request that Twilio will make as soon as it received an inbound SMS messages to your Twilio phone number. You normally tell Twilio to make this HTTP request to a URL that you've created and published to a public website, which you can set up easily by using something like ASP.NET. In this scenario you can think of Twilio like a web browser that is making a request to a web application that you have created.
You can tell Twilio what URL it should request by opening the Numbers tab in your Twilio dashboard, and then locating and clicking the phone number you want to configure:
Now you set the URL you want Twilio to request in the Message Request URL field and click Save:
Now when Twilio requests this URL its going to pass a bunch of parameters with its request that you can use in your application logic. You can also do things like return TwiML back to Twilio in response to its HTTP request that tell it to do things like send an SMS right back to the person who just sent one to you.
If you're looking for a bit more of a step by step, the Quickstarts on our website are pretty easy to follow and will walk you through both sending an receiving text messages. The samples are in C# but are pretty straight forward so converting to VB.NET should be easy.
Hope that helps.
I am doing something similar with VB.Net and Twilio. My solution was to put up an Azure web site and an Azure SQL Database (the two can talk to each other). I set up my Twlio to call an .ashx asp.net web page on my Azure web site. Inside of that web page I have code that reads the incoming text message and saves it to my Azure SQL Database.
Works great, but my problem is the Azure database is in "the cloud" and my app\database that sends the original SMS is on mylocal network. Not sure how to cross that divide... (I should add that my local app can read the Azure SQL database, but seems ugly to have to call out to the Azure to get data. Would have preferred to have just saved it in my local db to begin with.)
Probably not a very helpful post, but maybe give you some architectural ideas. If you want to see my .ashx page just let me know.
I'm wondering how Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn (to name a few) are using the Windows Live API to find the email addresses of the friends of a user to send them invitations.
When I try to use the Windows Live API I only get the email_hashes which can only be used to compare with existing user email of a system instead of sending them invitations.
Are these services paying Microsoft to benefit of an advanced API ?
Thank you,
Sébastien
All you need to do is add the following scope to the list of scopes you are requesting:
"wl.contacts_emails"
e.g.
WL.login({scope: ["wl.basic", "wl.contacts_emails"]})
I'm working on an app that uses an email log in form within the app.
my goal is to have the application take the String from the text field (quite easy) and then post it somehow to the email provider's website's log in form, does anyone know how I might do this? and if not, does anyone have any links I might find useful?
P.S. I am writing this email client for Mac OSX, not iPhone.
This is generally not how you want to do this.
Email clients access/send the users' emails using protocols such as SMTP, POP3, or IMAP, and not by interacting with the web interface of the email provider.
You could try using a library like VMime, which should let you connect to your users' mailboxes using the above protocols.
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
i m developing one application in that one user create one task and that notify to other users which are connected to that user so windows azure provide any notification service to implement this functionality?
Azure does not provide a mail relay service, but it does support the SMTP protocol and sending e-mail through external services ; here are a few options:
Sending Email using Microsoft
Exchange :
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazure/archive/2010/10/08/adoption-program-insights-sending-emails-from-windows-azure-part-1-of-2.aspx
Sending Email from Exchange Online :
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazure/archive/2010/10/15/adoption-program-insights-sending-emails-from-windows-azure-part-2-of-2.aspx
Sending Email using 3rd party
providers (e.g. SendGrid,
AuthSMTP...)
http://blog.smarx.com/posts/emailtheinternet-com-sending-and-receiving-email-in-windows-azure
This question is suspiciously similarly phrased to this one. The answer is, there are no notification services that would provide the functionality you seek out of the box.
It also links to the following answers:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazure/archive/2010/10/08/adoption-program-insights-sending-emails-from-windows-azure-part-1-of-2.aspx?wa=wsignin1.0
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/davidlem/archive/2009/01/08/windows-azure-sending-smtp-emails.aspx
As for the notification service it depends on what you mean by notification. If you want to also pop-up a message, e.g. for chat, or a response to a query, your best bet would be to implement a storage-backed (e.g. Session store with a session state provider, or Azure Tables, even Azure SQL would do) and either print waiting notifications on each page refresh, or better yet, do that with an Ajax call. Take a look at his Stack Overflow question for some suggestions.
On a side note, if you mean notification of services, e.g. a mailer, or something else, that should fire when a user performs certain actions, you can implement the basic functionality using Azure Queues, or Azure AppFabric if you need more advanced stuff.