A typical use / call of the MATLAB sendmail function looks like this:
% content
body = 'text';
attachments = 'attachment.pdf';
% set preferences
setpref('Internet', 'SMTP_Server', 'smtp.office365.com');
setpref('Internet', 'E_mail', 'first.last#domain.com');
setpref('Internet', 'SMTP_Username', 'first.last#domain.com');
setpref('Internet', 'SMTP_Password', '123456');
% properties
props = java.lang.System.getProperties;
props.setProperty('mail.smtp.auth', 'true');
props.setProperty('mail.smtp.port', '587');
props.setProperty('mail.smtp.starttls.enable', 'true' );
% send message
sendmail(address, subject, body, attachment);
Additional functionality that I am not able to get clarity on is how to specify cc address(es)?
MATLAB sendmail is not a full-fledged email client. It is meant to send an email for example informing you that computations have finished. Consequently, it doesn’t support CC or BCC, nor HTML emails, only plain-text emails.
If you are trying to use sendmail to send emails to clients, for example, you are using the wrong tool.
If you are on Windows, you could use ActiveX/COM to communicate with the MS Outlook app, and use that to construct abs send emails. But likely there are better tools than MATLAB to programmatically send mass emails.
Related
I am implementing a sort of dynamic mailing-list system in Rails. I am looking to basically send an email and have the recipient receive it in this form:
From: person#whosentthis.com
To: mailing-list#mysite.com
<body>
Basically, the challenge is how do I send an email to an address while defining a different To: header so that they can easily reply to the mailing list or just the original sender?
Mail vs. Envelope
In emails as in physical mails (paper sheet in paper envelope), the recipient on the envelope may differ from the recipient on the letter sheet itself.
As the mailman would only consider the envelope's recipient, so do mail servers.
That means, one actually can tell the smtp service to send and email to a recipient different than the one listed in the To: field of the emails header.
Trying This Out Manually
You can try this out, manually, for example, by using the sendmail command of postfix.
# bash
sendmail really_send_to_this_address#example.com < mail.txt
where
# mail.txt
From: foo#example.com
To: this_will_be_seen_in_the_to_field_in_email_clients#example.com
Subject: Testmail
This is a test mail.
This will deliver the email to really_send_to_this_address#example.com, not to this_will_be_seen_in_the_to_field_in_email_clients#example.com, but the latter will be shown in the recipient field of the mail client.
Specifying the Envelope_to Field in Rails
The ActionMailer::Base internally uses the mail gem. Currently, Apr 2013, there is a pull request, allowing to specify the envelope_to field on a message before delivery.
Until this is pulled, you can specify the fork in the Gemfile.
# Gemfile
# ...
gem 'mail', git: 'git://github.com/jeremy/mail.git'
You need to run bundle update mail after that, and, depending on your current rails version, maybe also bundle update rails in order to resolve some dependency issues.
After that, you can set the envelope recipient of a mail message like this:
# rails
message # => <Mail::Message ...>
message.to = [ "this_will_be_seen_in_the_to_field_in_email_clients#example.com" ]
message.smtp_envelope_to = [ "really_send_to_this_address#example.com" ]
message.from = ...
message.subject = ...
message.body = ...
message.deliver
Documentation
https://github.com/mikel/mail/pull/477
http://rubydoc.info/github/jeremy/mail/master/Mail/Message#smtp_envelope_to%3D-instance_method
https://github.com/mikel/mail
Why not use the BCC header for this? Put person#whoshouldreceivethis.com into BCC and mailing-list#mysite.com into TO.
Clearification:
There is no technical solution for this. The email headers do what they do, you can't influence them in that once the email is on the way.
I am sure, though, you can find a combined use of TO, CC, BCC and REPLY-TO that gives you what you want.
I've a custom form (created with form API) that need send an uploaded file by email. The current form submit handler sends the email without attachment using drupal_mail().
So I'm looking for a solution to properly send email with attachment from Drupal. Mime Mail seems an overkill because HTML mail, templating and its other features are not required. But the only other alternative I see is to set the appropriate headers and serialize the attached file in the mail body when processing the mail in my hook_mail() implementation.
Did I miss anything? Is there any module to handle this?
Mimemail is the easiest solution here. Be it an overkill or not, it will allow you to get it done with a single function call.
If you insist, you may have your homemade attachment sender: base64 encode your attachment(s), add them to the mail body, add the correct headers and you're done.
You can use mime mail and force the message body to be sent in plaintext format. Here is an excerpt from the module's readme file:
USAGE
This module may be required by other modules, but is not terribly
useful by itself. Once installed, any module can send messages by
calling the mimemail() function:
$sender - a user object, text email address or an array with name, mail
$recipient - a user object, text email address or an array with name, mail
$subject - subject line
$body - body text in HTML format
$plaintext - boolean, whether to send messages in plaintext-only (default FALSE)
$headers - a keyed array with headers (optional)
$text - plaintext portion of a multipart e-mail (optional)
$attachments - array of arrays with the file's path, MIME type (optional)
$mailkey - message identifier
return - an array containing the MIME encoded message
The key thing being to set the $plaintext argument to TRUE. Now you can have your cake and eat it too.
You could always have a look at the Swift Mailer module which lets you send HTML (MIME) e-mails, e-mails with inline images and e-mails with attachments. It is also cabable of automatically generating plain text versions based on the HTML e-mail version, which in the end will let the user's e-mail client display the preferred version (HTML or plain text).
The Swift Mailer module is available on http://drupal.org/project/swiftmailer.
For the record : I'm the author and maintainer of the module.
The Webform module allows you to create a form and has a file option which can be used as an attachment. All available form components are listed on the module's manual page.
Once installed Webform will appear as a content type. Once you have saved the fundamentals, such as the title and the email to address, you will have the ability to add the required form components.
Add a component of type 'file', ensuring the 'email' (to recipient) option is ticked, and you will then be able to customize the permitted file types, extensions, sizes and upload folder.
You could use the Zend Framework.
function sendEmail($params){
ini_set('include_path', 'inc/');
require_once ('inc/Zend/Mail.php');
$mail = new Zend_Mail();
$mail->setSubject( $params['subject'] );
$mail->setBodyText( $params['bodyText'] );
$mail->setBodyHtml( $params['bodyHtml'] );
$mail->setFrom( $params['fromEmail'], $params['fromName'] );
$mail->addTo( $params['toEmail'], $params['toName'] );
// Finally, add an attachment
assert( file_exists($params['attachFile']) );
$at = $mail->addAttachment(file_get_contents($params['attachFile']));
$at->type = $params['attachType'];
$at->disposition = Zend_Mime::DISPOSITION_ATTACHMENT;
$at->filename = $params['attachName'];
$mail->send();
}
I need your help in order to send email message that includes text in Greek, from within R, using the function sendmail {sendmailR}.
I tried using the function iconv, like that but it didn't work
subject <- iconv("text in greek", to = "CP1253")
sendmail(from, to, subject, msg, control=list(smtpServer="blabla"))
The mail arrives immediately but the greek characters are unreadable. Any ideas?
EDIT
Another question that came up:
The second argument to accepts one recipient. What if want to send it to more than one? (I think 'll try sapply ing the sendmail function to a vector of recipients) - Ok, that worked. However, I'm not completely satisfied because each one of the recipients has no way to know who else has received the message.
Mail client won't be able to understand any encoding without Content-Type: charset=..., so you must add it:
msg<-iconv("text in greek", to = "utf8");
sendmail(from, to, subject, msg,
control=list(smtpServer="blabla"),
headers=list("Content-Type"="text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed")
);
that is for UTF8 (which I believe should be used), for CP1253:
msg<-iconv("text in greek", to = "CP1253");
sendmail(from, to, subject, msg,
control=list(smtpServer="blabla"),
headers=list("Content-Type"="text/plain; charset=CP1253; format=flowed")
);
multisend by hidden copies can also be done with header magick, still I think sapply loop is a better idea -- then the user will see that the mail was send directly to her/himself.
I try to send a simple Email via CakePHP's Email Component. I'm using following code from the cookbook documentation:
$this->Email->from = 'Irgendjemand <irgendjemand#example.com>';
$this->Email->to = 'Irgendjemand Anderes <irgendjemand.anderes#example.com>';
$this->Email->subject = 'Test';
$this->Email->send('Dies ist der Nachrichtenrumpf!');
The send()-method does only return a boolean value with the value false - but no error or warning occurs.
Does somebody have a solution for that?
Have you tried changing the delivery options? There are three options: mail, smtp and debug.
$this->Email->delivery = 'debug';
$this->Email->send('test message');
debug($this->Session->read('Message.email'));
You can debug with EMail. Set the delivery to debug and the email message will be set to Session.message:
if (Configure::read('debug') > 1) {
$this->Email->delivery = 'debug';
}
$ret = $this->Email->send();
if (Configure::read('debug') > 1) {
pr($this->Session->read('Message.email'));
}
Which OS are you on? If Windows, this note may be of interest:
Note: The Windows implementation of mail() differs in many ways from the Unix implementation.
...
As such, the to parameter should not be an address in the form of
"Something <someone#example.com>". The mail command may not parse this properly while talking with the MTA.
Secondly, it may just be the case that no mail server will accept outgoing mail from your local machine due to spam protection. I have often seen that the same mail() function will not work locally, but works fine once uploaded to a trustworthy server. You could try to use an authenticated mail relay in that case (SMTP).
I have set up Microsoft SMTP server so it will store all incoming email in a dropfolder.
I want to process, using c#, incoming mail based on the sender, recipient, and subject line. If possible, I also want to create a plain text preview of the email.
So, there are two parts to this problem.
I'm guessing a FileSystemWatcher
would be adequate for providing
notification of incoming mail.
How to parse the headers and body text from the .eml file; is there an existing library or any good documentation on the format?
Thanks for any help.
Yes - thats true
I used this: http://www.lumisoft.ee/lswww/ENG/Products/Mail_Server/mail_index_eng.aspx?type=info
It's a Mailserver written in C# with an API you can use without using the Mailserver
EDIT: Found a code snippet:
LumiSoft.Net.Mime.Mime m = LumiSoft.Net.Mime.Mime.Parse(mailfile);
Console.WriteLine("Read message from: " + m.MainEntity.From);
Console.WriteLine("To: " + m.MainEntity.To[0]);