I am looking for a good alternative to the expensive BIMI.
My company uses google workspace as an e-mail provider. If I add a logo to a user, if this email is sent to the Google ecosystem, the logo is displayed. This does not appear if I send the email to yahoo, for example.
BiMi allows to show the logo to google, yahoo, aol and others but it is too expensive.
During a test I noticed that stackoverflow does not use BIMI but I see its logo both on gmail and yahoo.
How does?
Which system does it use?
This can be accomplished for free using the following steps:
Create a Google account with your company's email address.
Change the profile picture to your company's logo.
Wait up to 48 hours for the logo to become visible in the inbox.
Do not create the Google account using the "To manage my business" option. This account type isn't able to change its profile picture, and the account type can't be changed after its created.
For everyone else:
First, you will need complete the BIMI specification. Then, you will need to complete any additional requirements that each email service provider may have to display the logo in their inbox. This tutorial walks you through the process and explains everything you need to know.
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Hej there,
I am currently try to find a solution for showing an avatar to the e-mails sent by own organization. Our e-mails are not bound to Google Workspace, because we don't want to pay for features that we're not using.
So far I added a BIMI DNS entry to our domain (currently without DKMI). I tried to figure out how other people / organizations solve the problem, but could find neither a BIMI TXT DNS entry on their domain nor an entry on Gravatar. Possibly they have an Google Workspace account, but maybe there is another solution I could not find yet.
Has anybody an idea how to get our avatar to e. g. Gmail e-mail boxes?
(Yes, I know about X-Face or Face header in e-mail, but I don't think that Gmail supports them – I also could not find them in any e-mail)
The official solution is to reference a Verified Mark Certificate (VMC) in your BIMI record. This handles all of your email addresses at once. Your logo needs to be registered as a trademark, and you will need to purchase a VMC from DigiCert or Entrust. The cost to register a trademark is roughly $660, plus attorney fees, and the cost to purchase a VMC is $1,499 per year.
The solution provided by #HTeaMeuLeu is a free alternative for anyone who can't afford a VMC.
Create a Google account with your company's email address.
Change the profile picture to your company's logo.
Wait up to 48 hours for the logo to become visible in the inbox.
Do not create the Google account using the "To manage my business" option. This account type isn't able to change its profile picture, and the account type can't be changed after its created.
For everyone else:
First, you will need complete the BIMI specification. Then, you will need to complete any additional requirements that each email service provider may have to display the logo in their inbox. This tutorial walks you through the process and explains everything you need to know.
Here’s a detailed article on how to do this for a newsletter: Logos in the Inbox: Gmail.
You basically need to create a Google account without Gmail (at https://accounts.google.com/SignUpWithoutGmail) and setup your image there.
This is the email I received from flipkart - https://gist.github.com/syst3mw0rm/b5fe25633aed78865a0b
When I check the above email using markup tester - https://www.google.com/webmasters/markup-tester
it says, it has no structured data. i.e, it has no email markup in it. How does gmail show "View Order" action then?
Here's the screenshot showing it - https://www.evernote.com/l/ANzpEoWx0gpOOIdRXSupqzqmiWlr0gS7RHc
This is an integration from Gmail that is placed in the email. See this link for how to do it: https://developers.google.com/gmail/markup/reference/order
This data is usually read at the server level and is not displayed in the source shown in the email received. So looking through that you would not see the markup, etc that called this button.
Here is a link for other available actions that can be done in gmail - https://developers.google.com/gmail/markup/reference/go-to-action
Also found this great answer as well: https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/47674/new-view-order-button-in-google-mail
It's based on a initiative called Schema.org. Google announced this
feature for Gmail in May 2013:
http://gmailblog.blogspot.dk/2013/05/take-action-right-from-inbox.html
Quotes from the post (emphasis and linkifying mine):
Email is an important part of how we get things done -- from planning
an event with friends to organizing that family vacation to Costa
Rica. And today, getting those things done is getting a little easier
with new quick action buttons in Gmail, designed to help you tackle
your digital to-do’s as quickly as possible. ... and ...
These buttons appear next to certain types of messages in your inbox
and let you take action on an email without ever having to open it.
For example, you can RSVP to your friend's party invitation or rate
that restaurant you went to last night all right from the inbox.
You’ll be checking things off that to-do list in no time. ... and ...
If you are a developer and want to add actions to your emails, check
out http://developers.google.com/gmail/schemas to learn more.
I need my application to be able to log on to Gmail and send email on behalf of the user. The user supplies credentials. However, when I do so I get this message from Gmail:
Subject: Google Account: sign-in attempt blocked
Hi Jessica,
We recently blocked a sign-in attempt to your Google Account [...].
...
If this was you you can switch to an app made by Google such as Gmail
to access your account (recommended) or change your settings at
https://www.google.com/settings/security/lesssecureapps so that your
account is no longer protected by modern security standards.
I would like my app to "protect users by modern security standards" but nowhere do I find any data on what "modern security standards" means in this context. The app uses SSL, user name and password.
The app works if you do click the link, but I really don't want my users to have to click the "lesssecureapps" link, though if that is the only option, so be it. But I'd rather modify my app to be compliant with what Gmail needs. However, nowhere does it say what I am missing.
Any help please? I want to do the right thing.
For my own gmail account, I have multiple email addresses associated with it. For example, I have an email address from my university that is associated with my gmail, and I can send emails from my gmail as if they are coming from my university email address.
I'm reading up on the Google APIs, and I see that I can get a user's gmail address, but can I also get any other email address that is associated with their gmail account?
When a user logs in to my site, I'd like to present them with a list of the gmail-associated email addresses and let them select the one they would like to use.
EDIT: Thanks everyone for the answers, but I don't think any of them answers the question. I've been playing with Google's OAuth playground. It is strange that I can get lots of very personal information (a list of a user's contacts and even received emails) but I can't get the user's alternative email addresses.
Your description is a little vague. Are you talking about send-as alias accounts or alternate email accounts?
Send-as Alias
Either way, you can interact with the send-as accounts here: Manage Send-as Alias
Alternate Emails via Admin SDK
As for alternate email accounts, they can be accessed via:
Admin SDK: https://developers.google.com/admin-sdk/directory/v1/guides/manage-user-aliases?hl=en
Google Apps Script: https://developers.google.com/apps-script/reference/gmail/gmail-app#getAliases()
Additional info here on how the accounts work.
Email addresses associated with your account
Alternate email addresses and other Google products
Connect other email accounts to your Google Account
Federated Login
Also, I'm not exactly sure how you are trying to incorporate this functionality into your site but another area I recommend checking out is Federated Login for Google Account Users. This might also provide you with the functionality you seek.
Using federated login (also known as federated identity), your website
or application can allow visitors to sign in using their Google user
accounts. Federated login frees users from having to set up separate
login accounts for different websites, and frees you from the task of
implementing login authentication measures.
It has been a while since the question was asked. You can use the Google People API to get a user's primary email address and aliases. Here's the documentation. The scope you need to use is: https://www.googleapis.com/auth/user.addresses.read
This will return all the email addresses for the user and also tell you which is the primary one.
If you use OAuth to have your users sign-in with their Google accounts (with or without G+) the user will be prompted (by Google) to select which of their accounts they wish to authorize your application to use:
https://developers.google.com/accounts/docs/OAuth2Login
So to directly answer your question, I'm not aware of an API to return that list of users - however you shouldn't need to, Google will take care of this before returning to your application.
If your user is already logged in, and you wish to give them the ability to change the Google account they are using, I believe it is possible to prompt them again to select the account they are interested in (search for select_account on the link above).
This is possible. However, this has changed since Google announced the deprecation of their Google+ People API, which a lot of folks used to get all the email addresses for a user. The current most voted answer now goes to a 404.
Google Plus People API Replacement
Google has replaced the Google Plus People API /plus/v1/people/me with https://developers.google.com/people/ and you’ll want to use the https://www.googleapis.com/auth/user.emails.read profile scope as discussed here as a replacement. The schema is different, so you'll need to change your mapping as well.
If your app already used the following scopes from the old /plus/v1/people/me your user will not have to re-consent when you switch to the new API:
email
profile
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/plus.login
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/plus.me
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/plus.profile.agerange.read
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/plus.profile.emails.read
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/plus.profile.language.read
I'm new to joomla and I am looking for a module or component that allows users to create their e-mail id on my domain.
I've purchased the mail space from my provider but I don't know how to use it.
I want a full mailing feature in my website. Please guide me.
This depends very much on your web/email provider. Contact them first. I have never seen anyone offering an API for managing email accounts, so I'm not very hopeful.