My system is sending mails to my clients when they apply for position. Part of that mail is:
We would like to invite you to take the next step
For Gmail users, it displays well, but in Outlook Web App my users see this sentence underlined and on click it shows suggested event.
Is there some escape character or some other way for me to disable this option? I want that sentence be plain text, not the event suggestion.
This is a feature of Outlook Web App that helps your recipients create events in their calendars easily. Could you please help us understand why is it a concern for your case?
More and more clients (especially on mobile devices) highlight meeting suggestions or meeting times and allow users to create events easily.
As a sender, you can't "disable" it. But the recipients can disable it via gear->manage integrations settings, if they do not like it.
Related
Using O365, i want to be able to send an SMS to a specific mobile number automatically after recieving an e-mail from a specific sender with a specific subject.
What is the best way to do this?
First, you need to set up the mobile number as so:
Open Outlook Web Access in your browser. The standard address is usually: https://mail.yourcompanydomain.com/owa. It’s important to note that you need to go to Outlook Web Access.
Log in using your Office 365 username and password.
Select Options – located in the top-right of the window – followed by See All Options.
Click Phone from the list on the left side of the window and then Text Messaging.
Pressing Turn on Notifications, selecting your Locale: and finally your Mobile Operator.
Press Next and enter your phone number with the area code, and without the country code.
Click Next again and check your phone. You should get a pass code in a text message that you will need to enter. After you receive this, press Finish.
Now you are ready to set up email notifications using an Inbox rule Those rules are based on your criteria, whether based on sender or content :)
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.
Is it possible to modify email contents in outlook with yasoon?
I need to develop a plugin that opens html+js popup and inserts a link to email that user composes currently. Also I have to get list of recipients.
More details on what I want to archive is in this video(1.5 minutes) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JDh1NdIeUM
if its not possible with yasoon - how can I develop such functionality in outlook 2010/2013?
Your use case is fully supported by yasoon. We do something similar for Dropbox. However a heads up, there is also a way using the new Microsoft "Outlook Apps" to support this functionality. See the "Compose scenario" section. This would also allow you to run your app on Outlook.com website as well. yasoon only supports the standalone Outlook desktop client.
In case you need something more than just a simple html+js view and adding a link, like accessing the calendar (read, write), creating a ribbon button or new popup dialogs, feel free to check out our GitHub repo for code samples any time!
I bielive you can develop an Outlook add-in with a form region where you can choose and enter all the custom information. And then create a hyperlink and insert it in the body. See Walkthrough: Creating Your First Application-Level Add-in for Outlook to get started.
Also you may find the Creating Outlook Form Regions section in MSDN helpful.
For many years now I've included a link for users to view html emails in the browser just because it's an "industry standard". But it doesn't look great, and if it's the first thing the user sees it immediately gives them that "bulk email feeling" that makes them want to skip to the next message as fast as possible. It's also frequently shows up as preview text on gmail, apple mail, iOS mail, etc.
What modern email clients would display a standard HTML email so screwed up that it's not readable (assuming you're not using images for essential text, etc)?
Does anyone have stats of these "view in HTML" links being used at all in 2013?
It is best practice to include a "view on web" option in html email. Email is a game of percentages - it is hard to design for every client. If you go with the most consistent design - a static fix-width template, you still have the issue of many mobile users not being able to view the email properly. Anything more advanced like media queries are highly segmented also.
Some people just prefer to read on the web, while some older email clients don't display html at all, so it is a good fallback for them.
You could put the 'view on web' link at the bottom of the email if you prefer, but a better option is to include a preheader. A preheader is basically a secondary subject/title designed specifically to show up in clients that give a preview of the email content.
Being easily recognizable as a html/bulk email, I don't think is a problem - people expect that in today's world. The most important thing you'll need to counteract low engagement is supplying valued content to your subscribers and not sending too frequently.
I am working on a project where we send emails to user. Now what i want is instead of user logging-in back into our system to reply, if he replies back to that email(whichever email account he got email to). It should automatically be attached back in our system.
Can somebody share their views on how to go on about this? or any suggestions on whats a best way to do this.
Many Thanks
You can do this using the auto-reply function in HmailServer.
Simply go to the administration windows, select an account, select the auto-reply function and set the subject and the body.
If you want to do this programatically, you can use the COM API, it can be used using various programming languages.