Description of the issue
I am sending emails in JavaScript with
message2 = message.replace("<br>", "\n")
GmailApp.sendEmail(address, subject, message2, {
cc: cc,
name: sendername,
htmlBody: message
});
…where message is a long string containing HTML tags.
On my Gmail account the email that is received contains a … in the middle to hide/extend the end of the message. The … correspond to newlines (<br>) but it seems to chose a newline randomly that will be used to split the message randomly.
I cannot get rid of all <br> of course. I always saw these … to separate the main part of the email from the signature. But in my case it just appears anywhere as for example right after the first line:
Question
How does GMail choses the “breakpoints” for shortening the message?
How can I avoid that GMail uses “breakpoints?”
Should I use something else than <br> to make newlines?
Related
I'm having an issue where my MailApp.sendEmail call is getting blocked by Google's Delivery Services. The specific error I get:
Message rejected. See https://support.google.com/mail/answer/69585 for more information.
Final-Recipient: rfc822; ******#gmail.com
Action: failed
Status: 5.0.0
Diagnostic Code: smtp; Message rejected. See https://support.google.com/mail/answer/69585 for more information.
Last-Attempt-Date: ......
The linked answer page redirects to this one which suggests I have an issue with my address formatting, or that my email content looks suspicious.
As you can probably see below everything is formatted to the bare minimum, so none of the ... and space preceding or following the e-mail should be an issue. I haven't been able to find any fixes for this situation and regardless of who I put in my "to:" field, it seems to break. For example, if I put my second e-mail address in as "to:", it still gets blocked on my side. Code snippet below.
var mailbody = formatMailBody(mailData, dataOrder)
MailApp.sendEmail({
to: "mygmail#gmail.com",
subject: "Contact form submitted",
htmlBody: mailbody
});
HTML Formatting:
for (var idx in order) {
var key = order[idx];
result += "<h4 style='text-transform: capitalize; margin-bottom: 0'>" + key + "</h4><div>" + sanitizeInput(obj[key]) + "</div>";
}
I am noticing that I get an email from my server each time an order is placed. It looks like the customer confirmation emails are not sending.
This is part of the error message:
A message that you sent contained one or more recipient addresses that were
incorrectly constructed:
=?utf-8?B?R3Vlc3Q=?= <>: missing or malformed local part
This address has been ignored. The other addresses in the message were
syntactically valid and have been passed on for an attempt at delivery.
------ This is a copy of your message, including all the headers. ------
To: =?utf-8?B?R3Vlc3Q=?= <>
Subject: =?utf-8?B?SW50ZWxsaWdlbnQgV29ya3Nob3A6IE5ldyBPcmRlciAjIDEwMDAwMDAzMA==?=
It looks like it’s only when the user checks out without registering
=?utf-8?B?R3Vlc3Q=?= <>: missing or malformed local part
The error message is quite obvious: There should be an email address between <>, but there is none. The local part is the part of the address before the #, and as there is nothing at all here, there is no local part. Thus your server is complaining.
You have to fix whatever application is trying to send mails to <> to get rid of the error.
The email address is not written in proper format, please use <>
I really don't Understand what you are trying to do. But This is what I found out playing around with this error.
$to = "'Name of Person' <email#example.com>";
$headers = "From: ".$_POST['theirName']."<".$_POST['theirEmail'].">\r\n";
$subject = $_POST['subject'];
$messageBody = $_POST['message']."\r\n ---\n This Message was sent from ".HOME." contact form.";
mail($to,$subject,$messageBody,$headers);
Notice that around the 'Name of Person' has single quotes. If you are trying to send emails with an additional name, title or anything else in front of the emails. With the single quotes will let PHP know that it is not an email but a string, and it will add the string but be ignored as an email, not giving you the error anymore.
The header where it states from does not need to have the single quotes.
=?utf-8?B?R3Vlc3Q=?= <-This line I don't know what it supposed to be doing.
But it's not an Email on the $to/$recipient and for that reason it giving the error. Once again, must have only emails: "email1#example.com, email2#example.com" other than that: 'String' with single quotes no error will produce...
I have an HTML email that I send to my users. It looks great in all major Web, Desktop, and Mobile clients even Gmail, EXCEPT when the email is included as part of a "conversation" in Gmail. In that case, some of the table background colors don't show, the text alignment is wrong, etc. Is there a way to prevent this?
Make sure your messages have different subject lines, that'll prevent them from being in a conversation. Or, if just testing, leave the subject line blank.
Tested answer: Change the sender of your email by inserting a random number. So instead of sending from foo#bar.com, send from foo+1#bar.com. Functionally, these are the same email address (replying will send to the same person).
In ES5:
randomNumber = Math.floor(Math.random()*100).toString();
from = 'Foo <foo+' + randomNumber + '#bar.com>';
In ES6:
randomNumber = Math.floor(Math.random()*100);
from = `My Company <foo+${randomNumber}#bar.com>`;
Is it possible to set the "reply-to" header field in a Mailgun list? While conversations are sometimes nice, people are getting annoyed at the volume of mail from one particular list, in which respondents ignore the instruction to send the message to a certain email address and hit reply, resulting in dozens (or more) messages containing things like "Got it!" or "I'm coming!" when only one person needs to see the response.
For this particular list, the ideal situation would be to limit the allowed senders to just a few people, but as none of them use services quite as nice as Gmail or a standalone email client (additional SMTP logins cannot be established), I've not found any way to limit the inanity. Does anyone know how to do this?
I am not sure if you are still looking for the answer, but you can set the Reply-To header using the API.
h:Reply-To
I have been using it with an email hash - each user gets a unique hash in the reply-to field so I know who is replying. Basically the reply-to looks like this:
"h:Reply-To" : "inboundaddress+hash#mydomain.com"
In the routes panel add the following and you can redirect to your email or to an HTTP endpoint:
match_recipient("^inboundaddress\+(.*)#mydomain.com")
Hope that helps.
Justin
You can programmatically add the header "Reply-To" in the data you are sending.
For example, this snippet works well in Python:
import requests
url = 'https://api.mailgun.net/v3/YOUR_ACCOUNT/messages'
auth = ('api', 'YOUR_KEY')
data = {
'from': 'Info <info#email.com>',
'to': ['user1#email.com', 'user2#email.com'],
'subject': 'test email',
'html': '<b>hello!</b> that's all.,
'text': 'plain text here',
'o:tag': ['categoria 1', 'categoria 2']
}
data['h:Reply-To']="My name <my#email.com>" # <------------- HERE!
res = requests.post(url, auth=auth, data=data)
Please check this issue in mailgun-js
https://github.com/bojand/mailgun-js/issues/57
You just need to add 'h:Reply-To' to your email configuration object:
const options = {from, to, subject, text, html};
if(replyToAddress){
options['h:Reply-To'] = replyToAddress;
}
That will add new header to the e-mail :)
I have been looking for the exact same functionality and have not yet found one. I even tried using the Routes but that did nothing more than forward an email before sending it out to everyone else. I opened a ticket with support and received the same reply. There is not a way to set that at this time.
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.