I use MailKit and IMAP Client. I want get messages if they have specified subject:
client.Inbox.Open(FolderAccess.ReadOnly);
var query = SearchQuery.SubjectContains("my_subject");
var uids = client.Inbox.Search(query);
if (!uids.Any())
MessageBox.Show("Empty list!");
but all methods which returns TextSearchQuery (eg. SubjectContains, BodyContains, FromContains...) not works and I get MessageBox with empty list info. But if my query return SearchQuery eg.:
var query = SearchQuery.NotSeen;
or
var query = SearchQuery.NotFlagged;
it works correctly. Where is the problem? With chars encoding?
Different IMAP servers implement text matching differently. Some IMAP servers do a literal substring search while others tokenize the message text/subject text when the message arrives and keep a database of which messages contain which words.
Some IMAP servers decode the text (if it is encoded) and some do not.
Text-based searching is all completely dependent upon the IMAP server you are using.
I solved this problem. I changed "_" char in subject with "+" (permissible in Base64, perhaps it matters).
Related
I'm building a LotusScript agent looping through a set of documents then - based on a given condition - create mail messages with formatted html text. The recipients will be mostly Non-Notes users (Outlook etc) that's why I want to make sure that subject and message body are formatted correctly. At least one copy is sent to a Domino mail-in database, though.
The code basically creates a MimeEntity, sets "To", "CC" and "Subject" headers then puts a pre-configured message into the mail body and sends it off.
In regards to the body I experimented both with a simple MimeEntity formatted as "text/html" as well as with a multipart message (Content-Type = "multipart/alternative") with 2 child entities (1: "text/plain" without any formatting, 2: "text/html" i.e. html-formatted); in my final code I plan to go for the latter method.
What is really weird is that the recipients (using Outlook as well as other mail clients like Thunderbird) see 3 "To:" and 3 "Cc:" items instead of just one. Looking at the doc in the receiving Domino mail-in database there is only one instance of each item (i.e. SendTo and CopyTo).
Here's the message's source code (taken from Thunderbird) showing those 3 instances of each item:
Return-Path: <sendername#myorg.de>
Received: (removed info here)
Subject: =?UTF-8?B?RWluIGdlbcO8dGxpY2hlcyBzaW1wbGVzIFRlc3RtYWlsIGF1cyBTT1A=?=
MIME-Version: 1.0
Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
To: user1#orgext1.de, user2#orgext2.de
CC: my-mail-in-db#myorg.de
To: user1#orgext1.de, user2#orgext2.de
CC: my-mail-in-db#myorg.de
To: user1#orgext1.de, user2#orgext2.de
CC: my-mail-in-db#myorg.de
Message-ID: <OFBCA50979.C1582837-ONC125856E.00548385-C125856E.0054838A#MYORG.DE>
From: Lothar Mueller <sendername#myorg.de>
This the basic code creating these mails (the simple non-multipart version):
Set docMemo = db.Createdocument()
Call docMemo.Replaceitemvalue("Form", "Memo")
Set nMimeBody = docMemo.Createmimeentity()
'SendTo
Set nMimeHead = nMimeBody.Createheader("To")
Call nMimeHead.Setheaderval("user1#otherorg.de,user2#3rdorg.de")
'CopyTo
Set nMimeHead = nMimeBody.Createheader("CC")
Call nMimeHead.Setheaderval("my-mail-in-db")
'Subject
Set nMimeHead = nMimeBody.Createheader("Subject")
Call nMimeHead.Addvaltext("Subject with ä-ö-ü-ß", "UTF-8")
'html version only for simple non-multipart MIME
Call nStream.Writetext({<p style="font-weight:bold;">Some simple formatted HTML content</p>})
Call nMimeBody.Setcontentfromtext(nStream, {text/html; charset="UTF-8"}, ENC_NONE)
Call nStream.Close()
'finally send
Call docMemo.Send(False)
Now, I can work around this behavior by simply setting the recipients as plain old Notes items, like:
Call docMemo.SendTo = recipientArray
Call docMemo.CopyTo = copyArray
instead of setting those values as MIME headers. In this case there are no more multiple instances of "To" and "CC" items at the recipients' mail clients.
I know that I did this already some years ago in a different project, and back then I didn't have those problems.
Anyone having an idea what could be the cause for this? Could it be due to the Domino version in use (now it's 10.0.1 FP4, back then it was some 9.0.1 version)?
Guess I found the cause for this, at least partially:
As I mentioned in an update to my post this behavior only can be observed when the agent is running in the client as opposed to running on the server:
examining the resulting mail through Ytria's scanEZ I find that there's a difference in regards to the fields that are created:
the run-on-server version just creates the expected fields "To:" and "Cc:" which turn up as "SendTo" and "CopyTo" in the resulting Notes document
If the code is running in the client some more fields are created in the Notes document: in addition to the standard fields there are also "INetSendTo", INetCopyTo, "AltSendTo" and "AltCopyTo". I assume that those extra fields are then rendered by the router to become addition "To:" and "Cc:" header items.
Thanks again to #DaveDelay for bringing up that idea regarding the router and mail.box
I have added a custom header in emails, conditionally
and I want using the IMAP/SearchQuery to return only the mails having the header.
Not its value, only to return true/false if the header exists.
Is it possible ? thanks.
According to rfc3501 (the IMAP specification):
HEADER <field-name> <string>
Messages that have a header with the specified field-name (as
defined in [RFC-2822]) and that contains the specified string
in the text of the header (what comes after the colon). If the
string to search is zero-length, this matches all messages that
have a header line with the specified field-name regardless of
the contents.
To make this search in MailKit, what you would do is this:
var results = folder.Search (SearchQuery.Header ("X-Custom-Header", string.Empty));
Edit:
I just discovered a logic bug in MailKit that would decide to send empty strings as ATOMs instead of QSTRING like it should. I've fixed this in git master, but have not made a release yet. I'll probably do that this weekend.
How can I get the email address out of a string like:
def emailAddress="john#doe.com <\john#doe.com\\>"
so that I can use it in a call to Contactperson.findByEmailAddress(variable)
JavaMail provides a class for representing email addresses that can parse strings in the format you have. Take a look at javax.mail.internet.InternetAddress.
Grails has a mail plugin that will automatically make JavaMail available.
A simple solution is
Contactperson.findByEmailAddress(emailAddress.split('<')[0])
But you need to do some validation work first to avoid format errors.
I'm assuming the email you need to compare is inside the brackets:
Contactperson.findByEmailAddressIlike('%<${variable}>%')
You'll probably need to escape the special characters depending on your database.
Is there a way to encode a email address that can be used as a part of a url in codeigniter?. I need to decode back the email address from the url.
What I am trying to do is just a -forgotten password recovery- thing. I send a confirmation link to the user's email address, the link needs to be like ../encodedEmail/forgottenPasswordCode (with the forgottenPasswordCode updated in the db for the user with the submitted email).
When the user visits that link, I decode the email(if the email - forgottenPasswordCode pair is in the table), i allow them to reset their password (and i reset forgottenPasswordCode back to null).
I could just do a loop -checking the table with a select query- (or) -set that forgottenPasswordCode column unique, so i keep generating on a insert failure(would that be a lot faster ?)- until I generate a forgottenPasswordCode that doesn't already exist in the table.
But the guy I do this for would not accept it this way:). He wants the checking be done with the user's email, he thinks its much faster.
I am working with codeigniter, I used its encode() function, it seems to produce characters like '-slashes-' at times that breaks the encoded-email-string.
Any other ideas?
try using bin2hex() and hex2bin() function,
<?php
function hex2bin($str)
{
$bin = "";
$i = 0;
do
{
$bin .= chr(hexdec($str{$i}.$str{($i + 1)}));
$i += 2;
} while ($i < strlen($str));
return $bin;
}
$str = 'email#website.com';
$output = bin2hex($str);
echo $output . '<br/>';
echo hex2bin($output);
?>
Don't put data in the URL that doesn't have some sort of meaning. This leaves two choices:
Send the address as part of a POST. If it's coming from a web form this is the way to go.
Refer to the address in the database using an ID or hashed value. If you need the user to click a link referring to their account, use something that clearly refers to their account. If you need to refer to an instance of a password reset (many systems do this), add a table containing hashes, using that hash in the URL.
Why not just encode it in the URL?
You can see URLs (it's part of the UI), encoded things look weird
URLs represent resources, things in your app (users probably already have IDs)
Encoded email addresses are long (making these URLs harder to work with in things like emails)
Try to keep parameters in URLs to clear references to concepts in your web app (point at one user by ID or plaintext name, for example). Parameters that don't fit in URLs go in POST parameters. If you must use something encoded in a URL, prefer one-way-encoding and database lookups.
Although it may be not optimal design solution to use email as a part URL,
use email as base64 encoded string to avoid any issues with special chars
E.g. Base64 encoded string 'abc-def#example.com' is
YWJjLWRlZkBleGFtcGxlLmNvbQ==
In your case the URL is
../YWJjLWRlZkBleGFtcGxlLmNvbQ==/forgottenPasswordCode
All you need is to decode that string back before usage
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.