Until now I was using MailSlurp for this task but it has limits when using the basic plan.
Is there any other way that would solve the problem?
Test Case Steps:
Register user with random email
Go to the created email address and click the activation link sent by the app
I found the solution.
I used a small library called gmail-tester https://www.npmjs.com/package/gmail-tester, and it does its job perfectly.
I've had a problem with configuring it but in the end, it's working.
I can check now has user received an email, and assert the content of the emails.
You can use faker to generate a random word and then just add that word to the end of your email with a + it would look something like this
cy.get('someElement').type(`something+${faker.random.words(1)}#example.com`);
Then you can just navigate to your own email address and click the link from there. The only issue you are going to have is that you wont be able to do this all is the same test case as cypress does not support cross browser testing.
Also Im not sure if the activation link redirects you or not, but if it does you wont be able to navigate to that link either.
Here is an awesome article showing how you can use MailTrap to do this:
https://humble.dev/testing-an-email-workflow-from-end-to-end-with-cypress
I'm developing a client jabberd application for mobile(android) using (a)Smack.
Since, in my application, the users are registered by their phone numbers, the application should be able to recognize which contact has a jabber account on the server and suggest him/her for chatting.
After googlling the web I found that there is a jabber user directory (JUD) which I can use to check there is an account for a specific mobile number or not. (I'm using UserSearchManager).
My questions:
1- It seems that there is no record in JUD for a user who has not updated his vCard yet, so I cannot find him. Is there any solution to check the existence of this kind of users?
2- It seems that by using JUD, everyone outside of my application can fetch some important information of users such as mobile numbers, emails, etc. Is there any solution to limit JUD search engine? (for example, getting only "user field" as a input and returning only "full name field" of existing accounts or other useful limitation).
So by this way, I can recognize which person from the contact list has an account on the server and also other people cannot fetch important information of the exiting users.
Any command or advice is appreciated. Thank you.
I do not think it is possible as default, without customizing ejabberd application code.
I am working on a project where we send emails to user. Now what i want is instead of user logging-in back into our system to reply, if he replies back to that email(whichever email account he got email to). It should automatically be attached back in our system.
Can somebody share their views on how to go on about this? or any suggestions on whats a best way to do this.
Many Thanks
You can do this using the auto-reply function in HmailServer.
Simply go to the administration windows, select an account, select the auto-reply function and set the subject and the body.
If you want to do this programatically, you can use the COM API, it can be used using various programming languages.
I am looking for some code, which I could send mails out of my website.
I want the user's registered in my website, to be able to automatically send emails at specific time, that's defined by the user. I need a triggering mechanism in asp.NET such that it fires the exact date & time as specified by the user
Any suggestions/approach apart from the above statement is also welcomed.
I have found a solution for the problem, and would kindly request the moderators to delete the post.
Thank you
Asp.Net is not the correct framework to perform scheduled tasks.
You can use Asp.Net for a web interface in which you allow the users to create "tasks", set the timed intervals and even the content of the emails.
BUT - The process which sends the emails should probably be done using a task scheduler...
Here is a post to point you in the right direction...
I am trying to send emails from Django using an email configured by Google Apps, my configuration at the settings.py file looks something like this:
EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.gmail.com'
EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'contact#mydomain.com'
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'password'
EMAIL_PORT = 587
EMAIL_USE_TLS = True
When I try to send an email using:
from django.core.mail import send_mail
send_mail("Happy new year", "We wish you the best for 3001",
"contact#mydomain.com", ["someuser#gmail.com"])
I get the following error:
SMTPAuthenticationError:
(535, '5.7.1 Please log in with your web browser and then try again.
Learn more at
5.7.1 https://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?answer=78754 k2sm758604obl.14')
Since I'm working on a remote server with no graphical user interface, I cannot even try to login from the browser.
Just go to
https://accounts.google.com/DisplayUnlockCaptcha
and click "continue". This is going to allow access from other servers.
I've been messing with this for a couple of hours within a cucumber/capybara/selenium test - discovered something stupid which will fix this error for good, guaranteed
The all too familiar error:
Please log in via your web browser: https://support.google.com/mail/accounts/answer/78754 (Failure) (Net::IMAP::NoResponseError)
As it turns out, there are TWO "Allow Less Secure Apps" toggles which need to be changed to allow logins from unknown devices/IMAP.
One here: https://myaccount.google.com/security?pli=1#connectedapps (bottom of the page)
And one here: https://www.google.com/settings/security/lesssecureapps
BOTH OF THESE GODFORSAKEN TOGGLES need to be changed to get rid of this error message.
edit: from user Milothicus (https://stackoverflow.com/users/3538026/milothicus): in myaccount.google.com, under 'Sign-in & Security', select 'Connected apps & sites'. this also has an option to 'Allow less secure apps'. after turning this one on, my server could now send me an automated email.
When I tried to access my account I was sent this email consisting of this link.
https://www.google.com/settings/security/lesssecureapps
You can turn-on then possibly turn-off after you've done testing.
I got the following response from Google Apps support:
You need to turn on your Outbound relay. To do this:
Log into your account at google.com/a/yourdomain.com
Click the Settings tab and then select Email in the left column.
In the Outbound relay section, select Allow users to send mail through an external SMTP when configuring a "from" address hosted
outside your domain.
Click Save changes.
They also provided a help link: http://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=176054
After turning on Outbound relay and using the proxy to login to the webmail one more time (thanks to #DaniloBargen and #joshcartme) the issue was resolved. I've read the link explaining what the Outbound relay is and I'm not really sure why would I need it (I don't believe I'm using an external SMTP server).
Since I'm not really sure this is what solved the issue I won't mark the response as accepted until I get some confirmation.
Set up an ssh tunnel to the server in question so that you could, from your home computer, log in to the gmail web client using the server's IP. You probably need to tunnel port 80 and port 443, maybe just 443. After logging in through the web client the problem should go away according to knowledge base article listed in the SMTPAuthenticationError.
Here's an example of how to set up the tunnel:
http://www.noah.org/wiki/SSH_tunnel#simple_port_forwarding_.28SSH_tunneling.29
Option #1 (this worked for me):
After getting the error Please log in with your web browser and then try again. Learn more etc. when trying to send email from my web application, I logged in to the email via browser from my local computer.
After I logged in, there was a yellow notification bar on top which asking me if I want to allow external application access my mail. I confirmed this and Google asked me to log in to the account from the application within the next 10 mins. This will white-list the application.
Option #2:
If Option #1doesn't work for you, try this: http://www.rocketideas.com/2012/05/gmail-error-password-not-accepted-from-server-solved/
etusm provided two locations to turn on less secure apps:
One here: https://myaccount.google.com/security?pli=1#connectedapps
(bottom of the page)
And one here: https://www.google.com/settings/security/lesssecureapps
both were turned on, but my headless server still couldn't send me an email. based on JohnPang's google+ recommendation, i found a third location where i had to allow access to less secure apps:
in myaccount.google.com, under 'Sign-in & Security', select 'Connected apps & sites'. this also has an option to 'Allow less secure apps'. after turning this one on, my server could now send me an automated email.
I found the solution at: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/185833?hl=en and finally https://security.google.com/settings/security/apppasswords
If you are testing your project on a local machine, you should go to the latter link, and enable "Access for less secure apps".
Do you have two factor authentication enabled for the apps account ? Then you might need to use an application specific password for that application.
All of the above doesn't help in my case (weird). But this link might help you:
https://security.google.com/settings/security/activity
You can access it via Google Plus
Open Google+
Select "Security" from the top
Under "Recent activity" click "View all events"
You will see a list of "Unusual Activity"
It shows "Application / device sign-in attempt (prevented) Singapore" as I'm using AWS from Singapore
Click on "Change" > "Yes, that was me!"
Retry again. Done!
As of now (look at my post date) there is only one "Allow less secure apps" toggle in the Gmail account admin UI:
https://myaccount.google.com/u/0/security#connectedapps
It'll work from your local computer (Mac or PC) after that.
To allow access from Amazon EC2 (and I suspect other Cloud-located hosts), there is yet another flag to set in Google's never ending battle with spammers:
https://accounts.google.com/b/0/DisplayUnlockCaptcha
Recently, I have found that this issue can be resolved by confirming that the activity has originated from a request I initiated, by visiting Google Account
I had to confirm, under Security Events, that the suspicious activity was in-fact me, even though the originating server from where the request came from was cloud hosted, and therefore over 1000 km away. After clicking this step, and setting less secure apps, I was able to use getmail to retrieve my mail, over ssl using either imap or pop.
Just want to highlight Danilo Bargen's comment:
An easier way to connect to the other network using tunnels is to use a dynamic tunnel (ssh -D 6789 remotehost) and then to set localhost:6789 as SOCKS5-Proxy in Firefox. Then you are basically in the remote network with your browser and localhost is the remote host
Also I want to add that SOCKS Proxy method also works with Chrome. As a result you can log in with your local web browser as if you are on a server.
change your settings at https://www.google.com/settings/security/lesssecureapps so that your account is no longer protected by modern security standards.
This is occuring due to some apps are marked as less secure apps by google. So to use those apps, you need to give access for those apps. to do that follow http://www.codematrics.com/your-imap-server-wants-to-alert-you-to-the-following-please-login-via-your-web-browser-gmail/
Hope this will solve your issue.
In my case, when i tried to login to the google account via web, it asked me for a captcha. I entered the captcha and then the automation worked.