Is there a way to grab the email messages from outlook.com and store them in a txt or csv file as text? Is there a software/freeware that can do this?
MSN/Outlook.com offers no API that let´s you achieve this. If you really need to extract email addresses from incoming emails on your msn account you will need to use Imap to get the messages and parse them through php or .NET or likewise.
I really see no other way.
You might want to read more here for php examples.
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i have an idea about system where users respond to website's messages using the emails they received.
Is it even possible to have multiple imaginary emails with hash in the e-mail's name field(f.e., 1h2149g0as1gasd9123#mysite.com ) and those all imaginary e-mails just forward content to messaging#mysite.com e-mail. And afterwards we are able to parse the contents and know for which conversation the message was sent.
The emails are hosted in Google service. Could not find any information about this in internet.
Such option would be excellent, because there would be no need of including the identificator in e-mail's content which might be deleted if no quoted text is in replied e-mail.
I'm open to any other suggestions that would fit in this situation.
When using Google's service, you can add tags after the e-mail address using a +. For example...
test#domain.com
test+12345#domain.com
test+wuishw78#domain.com
will all go through to test#domain.com, and you can then look at the address.
Note this is not supported by all e-mail systems, so while this works on Google's hosted e-mail, it may not work on others.
First, let me get this out of the way and say this isn't a spam application. I'm writing an app that allows users to share files with multiple friends easily via email.
Right now, I'm using SKPSMTPMessage to send out emails to a list of recipients at the user's request. It works, but I wonder if there isn't a better solution here. For example, if it might be better to send the smtp info and attachments to my server, and conduct the sending from there in order to avoid repetitive attachment uploads on the device.
I am also considering how to handle cases where there is no connection available (determining connection error vs other kinds of errors and persisting the failed message for a later retry).
Any advice on the best way to structure this service would be greatly appreciated.
In order to customize the user experience for sending e-mail you need access to their email details, IMAP, POP, etc. if you want that user to be the one sending the e-mail.
The solution I use is to have the from address be an e-mail I control and use a 3rd party email provider, ex: SendGrid, PostMark, Mandrill and plug in to their api's to send e-mails.
I want to create a new software that can be controlled by email.
It will work like followup.cc or followupthen.com.
The users of these softwares can give commands to the system by using only email. For example, sending an email to 1minute#followup.cc sets the system to send a notification email after 1 minute. Or sending an email to 4weeks#followup.cc sets the system to send a notification email after 4 weeks.
I have never seen an example for implementing such an email user interface. I don't know where to start. Do you know of any good tutorial or open source code that I can take as example?
Note: I appreciate anything useful but my preferred programming languages are python or java.
Use the SubEthaSMTP library to receive mail. That gives you the SMTP envelope information: reverse-path (usually the sender's email address), recipient and message content as a stream.
Based on your question it seems that you do not need to parse the message (for example to retrieve the subject), but if do need, then parse the mail using the JavaMail library.
You can find example code in the SubEthaSMTP wiki pages. A more complex example is SubEtha Mail, a mail list manager.
I'm generating a bulk mailing each day for users who want to receive the daily deals. I can either send a separate physical email with each user specified on their own unique To header, or I can send one email with all the users on the BCC line.
Obviously if I ever want to create user specific content I will need to customize the emails per user and send them individually, but if I don't want customized email right now, should I just send out the single email with everyone on BCC? Any reason to NOT do that.
Edit: I'm using a third party as my gateway that specializes in delivery with CAN-SPAM compliance, etc.. not trying to do this off my own mail server...
Update: I guess I'm really also looking for some metrics here. Is there a difference in open rates of BCC'ed email vs To field email? What about spam filtering rules that might pre-classify based on the BCC field?
No reason I can think off for NOT doing it. Using BCC is the polite way to send bulk emails.
In this case, it turns out that the correct answer was neither. The gateway provided a custom header API that allowed me to specify all the recipients in a secondary "To" field. The API then handled the blind delivery of the emails, and also did variable substitution for me so I didn't have to transmit all the duplicate content multiple times. The API then handled doing "best practices delivery of the email".
Is it possible in any way to send an email attachment through the user's default email client using AppleScript? I'm assuming there is no easy way of doing this, as the programs themselves have to implement AppleScript and every email client will implement it differently and require a different script for sending an email with an attachment.
I've searched around and only found this:
http://macscripter.net/viewtopic.php?id=12463
Which can, via Applescript, give me the name of the default email client. Has anyone looked into this before?
Thank you.
You are correct. You'll have to implement different applescript code for each email client. As such you'll probably want to limit the email clients your application will support and make that clear to your users.
The only other way for it to work universally is for you to implement your own email system. I have a python script that I can call from an applescript using "do shell script" to send emails. Of course you'll need to know the user's information (smtp server, username, etc). If you're interested you can see my python script here. It doesn't handle attachments but some google searching should show you how to modify it.