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I'm building a web app that relies quite heavily on email notification/responses.
I obviously don't want to rebuild gmail from scratch(!) but I'm not sure how to integrate an existing webmail client into my site. I've looked at RoundCube, AtMail and Squirrel but still am not sure if they're what I need.
For users of my app to use those applications would they be redirected away from my site, or can I use APIs to keep everything within my app?
Related to that, I only really need users to be able to read and respond to messages generated by my application. Although a full email client might be useful for some, it's not essential. I wonder whether a private message system (which could, if needed, send out emails to users registered address) might be more appropriate.
Is this something I could relatively easily put together myself, or should I again be looking for an existing solution?
I don't think, that integrating something like RoundCube to your site is a good idea in your situation, because those ones are meant to be stand-alone services, not a part of other ones, and do not provide API that can be used by your app.
Server side languages usually have a set of functions to work with IMAP protocol.
PHP: http://php.net/manual/en/book.imap.php
Python: http://docs.python.org/3.1/library/imaplib.html
You can find libraries for other languages too, I'm not sure what language you need, since you didn't specify it.
Imap usage requires some server configuration, but makes rather easy to fetch and read received emails from your script. Depending on your needs, you can send mails and reed and analyze replies.
Hope this information will be helpful to you.
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My team and I are currently building multiple services in parallel. We have the benefit of building all the services from scratch. I would like the ability to automatically display all API endpoints, from all services, in one page/site. This would be helpful because (among other things):
I don't have to go to multiple documentation sites to see what are the available endpoints in my entire "system".
It'll be a good first step to determine if any of the services should be split, combined or simply refactored.
Some of our services are in Django and the rest-swagger module is a great help. But I don't see how I can combine rest-swagger documentation from multiple services into a single documentation page/site.
I'm currently looking through this site and anything related to the Netflix experience but could not find a solution to my problem. Maybe centralized documentation isn't a big deal with 600+ services at Netflix, but that's hard to believe.
Can anyone suggest a tool or method to have a combined API documentation for all services in a microservice architecture?
My ideal scenario of what happens when a service is changed:
I click on the link to see the list of endpoints in my system.
A teammate updates a service and also it's documentation.
I refresh the page I am currently and I see that change made from step #2.
With my exp, you have some paths.
http://readme.io/
Make a wiki with JIRA, Redmine.
In Github create a repo for exclusive docs.
Google Docs.
I don't know about any existing tool rather I'm just putting my thought on where to do it.
From what the OP describe, they are already building a micro services architecture using Netflix stack. There should be a repository to config the name (or URL) for each of the services and the 'config server' or 'service registry' will read from that. To me, that's the perfect place to put the reference to each of the micro-service's documentation under their own entries. This way you get the benefit of maintaining the documentation and code at same place, plus you could potentially also collect run time information like instance/connections count if you hook into the config/registry server.
Being in similar situation I am looking to adopt https://readthedocs.org/ with GIT backed.
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I want to be able to contribute to Google Translate on my native language (Sinhala).
Although there is an online portal (http://translate.google.com/community/) where we can contribute to the translator by translating new phrases or validating existing translations, I would like to create my own, lightweight portal (maybe an Android app) for the contribution service. However, I was unable to find any public API for the translate contribution platform, despite a thorough Google search and a full search through the Google Translator Toolkit API forum (https://productforums.google.com/forum/m/#!categories/translator-toolkit-api) (which seems to have been closed down since the end of 2012).
Currently my best hope is to mimic the request-response sequence followed by the online portal itself. For example, the following request is used by the online portal to fetch a question list for manual translation:
GET http://translate.google.com/community/question_list?sl=en&tl=si&client=t
However, it requires that all the related cookies are properly initialized and passed with the request, which would probably not be easy to mimic in a non-browser environment (such as an Android app). Hence I believe there's a better approach (maybe a yet undocumented API?) somewhere out there.
Does anyone know of any API for accessing this translation contribution feature?
Thanks in advance.
Please note: I am NOT looking for a way to improve Google Translate itself, but for contributing to the actual translation content as described under "How can I help?" in the Google Translate Community FAQ (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dwS4CZzgZwmvoB9pAx4A6Yytmv7itk_XE968RMiqpMY/pub#h.e1ahmpftpdum).
P.S. I was initially planning to post this question on the Web Apps Stack Exchange, but after reading this post I decided to first try it here.
I'm one of the engineers behind Translate Community and I'm really excited that you want to see it on more platforms. We're currently under active development of the site and making it more accessible on mobile platforms without having to create dedicated native apps.
For the time being, we don't anticipate releasing a public API as the platform is under active development. Until we do release a public API, please don't use any http commands you find to create a separate app. Instead, just let us know how we can make the app a better experience for you and we'll work on making it better.
Thanks!
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I'm building a website that needs to provide users with the ability to subscribe to new items in each category. So, potentially I'll have dozens of different mail lists, each with hundreds of subscribers.
On a previous site, I built the mechanism myself and it worked well enough. I did fall foul of various spam filters and blacklists though as I was just using the newsletter feature of Merak's mail server which isn't really what it's designed for.
I've been looking for a tool to manage it that might behave better in relation to spam filters etc. MailChimp looked like just the ticket as it's got a nice API that allows list management and they pay great heed to doing things right with respect to spam.
However, it doesn't quite offer my the flexibility I need - particularly with customising the look and feel of standard response forms etc. Whilst there are good tools for customising the look of the opt in/out emails, they have to be done on a list by list basis and that's not really going to work for me.
So, has anyone had a similar issue? Should I be looking for an alternative to MailChimp or going back to a simpler in-house build with something more appropriate to do the final mailshots (thousands of emails a day).
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I saw this over on slashdot and realized if I could program in dns control into some of my apps it would make life a lot easier. Someone over there recommended dynect which apparently had a wonderful api. Unfortunately not a lot else was recomended. I don't know anything about managing dns servers I mostly work with the lamp stack, so on linux I understand bind is the way to go but other then a basic setup I'd be lost. I'd rather outsource the details.
What DNS services have API's and are easy to use without breaking the bank?
I guess in the last 3 years this is a bit of a solved problem. Here are some to check out:
Amazon has a nice dns service now http://aws.amazon.com/route53/
Linode has a free api based dns if you're a customer.
Dynadot has a fee dns with an api if you're a customer.
Hey I haven't used them, but Zerigo looks promising. We will probably wind up going with them if they allow enough hosts. Their API is standard REST stuff... very straightforward.
http://www.zerigo.com/docs/apis/dns/1.1
Thanks,
Eric.
We use DjbDNS and it's backended onto MySQL so we just hit the DB to make changes and periodically rebuild the the config data.
Has anyone seen any of the following DNS providers with APIs:
http://durabledns.com/
https://dnsimple.com/ (also supports registration by API)
http://www.loaddns.com/
We use Zonomi. Its very cheap and never gone down for us. With API
You can try http://customdns.ca. I have a couple of domains with them - no problems so far. They provide RestFul API.
http://www.dns.com
Here's the link to the API documentation:
https://github.com/dnsdotcom/API_DOC/
Have fun!
Haven't used the api, but I have been using the registrar for 10+ years and never had a problem: namecheap.com
Here is the API intro.
Here is the API methods list.
Pretty comprehensive. From purchasing to host and e-mail forwarding setup.
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I have a custom application that was built to send opt-in newsletters and marketing emails. It does a pretty good job sending mail, but it doesn't respond at all to bounces or unsubscribe requests. It seems to me that rather than building that functionality myself I should use a mailing list manager such as LISTSERV.
However, I'm not sure if LISTSERV fits the bill. I need something that I can integrate with existing data and code.
For example, the newsletters are sent out to registered users on a couple of web sites. I can't figure out if there's a way to pull the addresses for a newsletter from an existing database. Also, I'd like people to be able to opt in and out using the same account administration interfaces they use now. I'd rather not expose users to the underlying mailing list management software.
Does LISTSERV have an API that would allow me to extend it to suit my needs? If not, is there another quality mailing list management tool that does?
LISTSERV does have a powerful (if baroque) programming interface; see http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/15.5/LISTSERV15.5_AdvancedTopicsManual.pdf.
mailman doesn't have an API per se, but it does have a complete set of command line tools, which makes it very scriptable.
And, of course, both mailman and majordomo come with all their source code (Python or Perl respectively) so it would be possible to customize either in any way you wanted. Or, if all you want is the bounce-processing, you could rip that part out of one of them.
I see from another question there are tools to check a POP3 account for bounced emails and classify them as hard bounces, out-of-office replies, unsubscribes, etc.
If I give up on a finding a MLM and write my own bounce handling code, I'm hoping I'll be able to leverage one of the tools suggested there.