I like to keep my Outlook 2010 Inbox empty. But when a new email arrives, it is automatically selected and viewed in the preview pane, and therefore immediately marked as read. This then removes the "new email" icon from my systray, and therefore I am never notified about the new email.
Short of always keeping an old email in my Inbox, disabling the preview pane, or turning off the "automatically mark viewed email as read", I can't think of any good way to get that systray notification to work.
(I guess lots of GTD folks should have the same issue with their Outlooks.)
Any thoughts?
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Background: I'm currently trying to use the Gmail Inbox Feed (https://developers.google.com/gmail/gmail_inbox_feed) in my browser automation script in order to defeat 2-factor authentication. I'm working as a tester and want to bypass the profile creation to get to testing the actual bugs quicker. Basically my script tries to log into my website that has 2-factor authentication, then it gets the latest email using the feed and looks for the token that the website sends.
My problem is that it seems like the feed is only showing the oldest email from each conversation. It doesn't show new emails. That won't work for me since my script will trigger a bunch of these emails and they all get grouped into one conversation. And I need the latest email since that is the one that has the token. Curiously, the <issued> tag shows the date and time of the newest email even though the email in that containing <entry> tag is an old one.
If you want to reproduce this problem yourself: send an email to yourself, then reply to that email with a different message so that both emails show up in the same conversation. Then mark them both as unread by clicking the dropdown arrow on the oldest email and then clicking "Mark unread from here". If you go to the feed URL above, it will only show the first email you sent to yourself.
Is there a setting or parameter that I can set in order for the feed to show all latest emails? Or at least the newest email in each conversation?
I tried turning "Conversation View" off at Settings > General but that didn't solve my problem.
I have to delete all emails from a certain origin (like foo#bar.com).
I receive a lot of emails from foo#bar.com and I may not use a spam filter, I need to receive them and know they are there (in detail, they are from a batch system on a cluster). Once they are there, they cram my mailbox, so I want to delete them. Handpicking is a little less nice, since we are talking about a few hundreds.
I am currently employing outlook web app for a university mail address, but I am happy with any kind of solution really. So, is there an easy application, that can be hooked up to a mail account and delete all emails from a specific origin? Or can Outlook web app be made to do it? If yes, how?
If you want to make a rule and delete the email from particular sender then do the following steps
Please select the email that you want to delete all emails from this sender address.
Click Home > Rules > Always Move Messages From, and your selected email sender has been added after the function.
Then a Rules and Alerts dialog box will display, and specify the Deleted Items folder to place the emails.
And then click OK button, the emails which are from the same sender in the Inbox have been moved to the Deleted Items folder.
After removing the emails, you need to go to the Manage Rules & Alerts to turn off the rule that you have created just now, you can select the rule item and click Delete to remove it, or uncheck the rule. And then click OK to close the dialog box
see the details with screenshot at : this link
I recently received a mail directed to a whole bunch of people which I accidentally dropped in the outbox (I think) instead of an archive directory where I wanted to put it.
The mail disappeared and moved to my sent items, which is scary because I don't want to send it to all these people. However when I try the same thing again with another mail from a friend directed just to me... nothing happens as it stays in the outbox.
Firstly: no one reported receiving the mail twice, first the original and then from me.
Secondly: this makes me wonder if I just dropped it into the Sent Items directly instead of the outbox and just feared the worst.
So basically the question: IF I drag and drop a mail from the inbox to the outbox, what should happen?
Nothing will happen - Outbox is just an eye candy. A message can be submitted from any folder; Outlook moves messages to the Outbox just to avoid confusing the users.
I have this app which has an e-mail feature. When the e-mail window appears theres a recipient, subject and template text that asks for a few numbers and a name to be filled in to the gaps.
However I would like to approach this in a slightly better way. For example I would like a text box and a few drop down boxes in a view with a "Submit" button that, when pressed, would send an e-mail in the same format as above, but the required data would be filled in from the data the user has inputted via the drop-down menu/text box instead of having the user enter the information directly into an e-mail.
First of all, does Apple like this? I've heard they are not fans of sending e-mail in this way. (In the background).
Secondly, if Apple would approve of this, how would one go about implementing such a feature?
Thanks,
Jack
I can't speak to the policy issue, but there's no way for you to send a mail from the device (ie from the user's account) yourself without their UI.
If you want to accomplish this, you'll need your own server somewhere that you post the email messages to, and send on the back end from your own email account. This is probably not what you're after, but it would work.
If all you want to do is prepopulate some data in the email message, you can certainly give the user your picker controls, let them set it up, and then pop open the mail composer UI with all the message body pre-cooked. They'll still have to press "Send", but you can own the UI up until that point.
I found How do you make sure email you send programmatically is not automatically marked as spam? to (hopefully) be a solid guide to avoiding being marked as spam. Are there any other important tips/suggestions?
How do I track bounces,opens,clicks?
These are features found in paid services like Mail Chimp and Campaign Monitor.
Do the same as Mail Chimp and Campaign Monitor then. LIE about your stats.
There is no accurate way to track emails. If there was it'd just get blocked again. Most people don't want you to know these things and most email software ensures you don't. The stats provided by email tracking services are bogus.
Consider:
Most spam services will detect image
'bugs' and flag you as spam.
Image bugs don't do anything until
the user clicks 'show images'. This
does not mean they didn't open or
read it without images. How can you tell if a mail service downloaded the image preemptively to cache it or check it for image spam?
It can be difficult to determine the difference between a bounce and a reply due to differences in mail servers.
Only clicks can be tracked by redirecting through your server. Even then who can say that mail services won't start processing links in emails to determine whether the email is spam?
Opens can be tracked using a 1x1 picture file in an email. However, this is the same tactic that spammers use to validate email address existence, so you'll be fighting on the same side in that regard, unfortunately.
Clicks can be tracked by assigning a unique identifier to each link, determined by two variables: the URL that was clicked and the email address that clicked it. You can, for example, determine these on-send and store them in a database with the same unique identifier.
Bounces should bounce back to you with the email address intact.
I was looking at the email facebook sends out. In addition to an image, they use a bgsound element as a tracking bug like this:
<bgsound src="http://www.facebook.com/email_open_log_pic.php?mid=99999999&s=a"
volume="-10000" />
I'm guessing the bgsound src is fetched by some readers when the images are off.
Check out Ask MailChimp: How do you track email opens?
if you really want to track bounces, use a service like Email Delivered (www.emaildelivered.com)
i also use Return Path (www.returnpath.com) for a really good reading on whats being delivered to the inbox vs spam box and what esp's are totally rejecting my mail.
Two ideas, clicking links, and statistical fudgery.
Clickthroughs
I would like to add that you can mark emails as read by a user clicking a "view this email online" or by tracking click-throughs. If a user clicks on any <a> tag in your email, send it to a script first that logs the email as read and marks which link they clicked on. This will give you can get a more accurate number.
Stats
I wonder if there is any research into how many users don't show images. That way you could 'statistically' correct for the lower open counts. Just did a bit of reading and found:
A 2009 report from Merkle states that only 48% of email recipients see
images automatically. This means that if an email campaign relies
heavily on images, it’s probably not being read by over half of its
intended recipients. Source
The same site says:
In the latest MarketingSherpa Email Marketing Benchmark Report (2010), a survey of email recipients found that only 33% have images turned on by default.
Somewhere in between there could be a useful figure (35-40%) of users not displaying images in emails. That doesn't necessarily say that those users are opening the emails. Just that auto-displaying images isn't enabled.
If anyone can come up with some more facts/stats, we could potentially get a correction factor. Just with this information I don't think you can do much other than marketing smoke-and-mirrors. For example, 30% opened the emails. Based on 35% of users not displaying images, that means ~9% of users didn't display images, but explicitly chose to turn them on for this email (not really, but just go with it). Let's say that leaves 26% to unaccounted for. You could "correct" your 30% to 56%! All with the magic of bogus stats and a touch of marketing.