My problem is two fold.
1. I have a customer base that need to send me attachments. When they register with me, I'd like to assign them a unique email address. ie. uniqueId#...com
Is there a "special" way to do this, or do I need a mail server? I'm not really across mail servers other than how to set MX records. So not sure how they really work.
The emails that they send me will have attachments. PDFs, .doc, Images. I want to automatically read the attachments using OCR technology.
More after a point in the right direction of how I would implement something like this.
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So lately I have been trying to figure out if there's a way to find emails inside the phone mail box(either default one, or a chosen one, doesn't really matter at this point), that was sended too or by a specific email address.
I have read about enough_mail and imap_client but both of them offer an option to fetch a range of messages, without the option to filter by the sender.
Its worth mentioning that I wouldn't want to get a range of lets say one year emails (which also couldn't really be estimated using a number to decide what amount of messages I want to fetch, what I saw the packages offer) and iterate through them and check, its not efficient at all.
*A solution to send an email using flutter is not relevant AT ALL
Is there any way to do it using this packages, or any other options?
Thank you.
for my group at the university I'd like to set up a server-sided email-to-rss service.
It should work like that, that different people can send emails to a certain address (nothing proprietary like gmail but a certain imap or pop server) which will the be translated into an rss feed. One main and important feature has to be that one can see the sender of the email in the feed. Furthermore it would be nice (to take the load off the server) if the emails get translated to a feed only once a day or so.
Does anyone has some input on this subject? Are there any scripts/services which will allow that?
Thanks a bunch.
Instead of "reinventing the wheel", you could use a mailing list that supports RSS. Your people can then write the mails to the mailing list and you can then use the mailing list's RSS feed however you intend to.
This should help you find a solution: https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=mailing%20list%20rss
Pick a programming language you're familiar with, then use either an imap library to fetch the E-mails (through cron, every hour or something like that), or if you have access to procmail on your mail server, launch your script as an email arrives (this shouldn't be too much work to handle for a server, unless you're talking a vast amount of E-mail).
The script would just insert the E-mails into a database, before extracting them and outputting the RSS-feed directly from that (this shouldn't be more than a handful of lines of code).
There's a couple of providers that does this for you, although it seems that the most popular ones have disappeared. Advanced Email2RSS seems to be an option, although I have no idea how good they are or if it'll even solve your issue.
Aside from the visual splendor of HTML emails - links are the only thing keeping me from sending plain text emails. They are much simpler for users at times and reduce bandwidth by over 50%. However, forcing my users to copy/paste or (* shiver *) type the URL from the plain text email is not acceptable.
However, it seems like many services such as gmail and hotmail are converting URLs into HTML links. If that's true, then for some lighter emails I could finally switch to plain text (in certain cases) without bothering anyone.
Anyone know what percentage (or what systems or clients) convert text URLs into clickable links?
Some users access via the web (Hotmail/Yahoo/Gmail) while others use clients (Outlook/Thunderbird).
All email progams I know make links clickable, web-based and normal ones.
You should consider putting the links at the end of the mail, and use "[number]" to refer to them:
You should really visit PEAR[1] and friends, PHP[2]!
[1] http://pear.php.net/
[2] http://www.php.net/
That frees you from problems with longer URLs within the text, and it keeps the text readable.
You must not forget one simple fact and that is every mail client make this configurable. So I for one have the option of reading / sending html emails but I don't do that. So it's totally irrelevant how many mail clients support this, the relevant question is how many users have this enabled.
I always had trouble updating blogs i wrote, but it occured to me that whenever people ask me something I can give really long replies that could easily become articles.
However there`s not a feature in GMail or any other mail app for that matter, that enables me to search by message length.
Will I have to write a script to retrieve all messages and then process them or is there an easy way?
Well, what you could do is to use e.g. MS Office Outlook - I know they have a feature to create rules where you can specify to retrieve, move and what-not with e-mails sized over X ammount of kilobytes.
Might be an option?
We're programming a Testing Web Application for a University in ColdFusion with a MS SQL Backend.
Right now we have to manually take faxes sent to our fax machine and then find the account they are related to and input the info (the actual fax has to be found in a filing cabinet if we ever need to reference it again). What I would like to do is create a way for someone to fax to a certain number and then the fax be sent to an email account we specify.
If that worked properly we would need a way to get the email, store it somewhere on our servers and then link it to an account. The linking process would probably have to be manual and we are ok with that, but an easy way to view all the faxes sent to that email in our ColdFusion application in PDF form (searchable by the name we assign it) is what we are mainly looking for, so that we don't have to get the faxes on paper and file them by hand.
Is there a way to accomplish this? Preferably not through a paid service as we can program almost anything we need ourselves.
Hmm... have you tried services like eFax?
Why reinvent the wheel? Services like eFax and jConnect (there are several others, just Google "electronic fax service") are affordable and do half of what you are trying to do. Save yourself the effort and just spend a few bucks. You'll probably find out, too, that it will cost you less to just pay for the service than it would cost you to pay the developer to write the software.
So after you bite the bullet and sign up for an electronic faxing service, you just need an email account for it to send to, and to use CFPOP to check the inbox and download the attachments. The rest is a piece of cake.
From the sounds of it, I have built something identical to this faxing setup with Coldfusion.
After a few trials and errors I found best way to go is:
1) DIGITIZE INCOMING FAXES: Have all faxes either sent to an email address you can check via CF, or a network folder you save them on, which you can check with CF. You can absolutely keep your fax number and simply call forward incoming calls to your digital fax number.
2) PROCESS INCOMING FAXES When you find a new fax, it is best to process it and make a record of it. I store things like the file name, dig up the fax number it came from, check it against a list of known numbers, and have a routing table (in case it needs to go to someone).
3) PRINT AND ROUTE FAX Auto printing a document once in CF is possible via CF as well.
As for tables, I keep one to store each fax. I store the fax itself in a blob as well. Easy to replicate and move around, no big performance hit. I keep another table to store a list of incoming number profiles (like a caller ID table) to relate the number to a customer. I keep a table for routing rules, if an email comes from here, send it here. Last, but not least, if you have to manage multiple phone numbers, you can create multiple incoming profiles and file them.
Once you have each fax stored in the DB, you can do a lot with it and file/index/ store it digitally how you like. CFDOCUMENT will display disk based PDFs.
I ended up having to program something like this for custom routing options. It is possible to auto link items to certain files/folders/projects if you like as well with CF.
If you need to know anything else, ask, or we can discuss it off line if you need to keep some details private.
Agree with Adam. Don't create a bunch of problems for yourself - you'll save a lot of money and nerves by just using the existing service.
On the topic: I use Popfax and I kind of like it. It's comfy, gives you opportunities, discounts, contests and a lot of stuff you'd like if you'd be interested in. It's cheap (at least, 100% cheaper than your own software) and you can use it not only on PC, but also via mobile phone