This might be an odd request but I know there must be a way. Here's what I have and would like to do:
Input:
1) An email is sent with an attachment
2) The attached file is a jpg image
Output:
3) An email should be received with a tiny link in the email body
4) The tiny link should point to the image viewable in a browser
Additional Criteria:
5) The destination email address to which the original message is sent can be altered
6) The format of the original mail cannot be altered; the image is always attached
7) The process must be automated, triggered by the original email
I have gmail accounts and a Linux server that could potentially be used but not sure where to start. I've searched quite a bit and found a lot of software that do similar tasks but nothing like this specifically. It seems to be a fairly complicated task and I could use some ideas. Any help is appreciated.
This was a bit of a challenge but I managed to get it done. Here's how:
Input:
1) Send the email with attachment to local postfix smtp server
Processing:
2) Have postfix call procmail when email is received
3) Use procmail as a filter to conditionally call a script
Custom script:
4) Use munpack to convert the attachment to file
5) Use a script to upload the image file to imgur
6) Use a script to make the imgur link tiny
Output:
7) Send an email using mutt with the link in the body
The main problem I had was setting up postfix and finding bugs in the clients trying to send email to the local postfix server. I used an array of tutorials, IRC and tools to debug but tcpdump revealed the final smoking gun.
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I have a Xampp Server that I use only in a development environment. In order to preview emails that would be sent from the live sites without actually sending them I would like to intercept all the emails sent from this server. I would like to be able to either send them all to a specific email or save them as files instead of sending them to whatever address they're set to go to. This way I can make sure they are correct without accidently sending emails during testing.
I found a similar question with an answer
here
but was unable to find a way to open any of the dialogs in the answer and so it didn't get me very far.
Thanks in advance for your help!
You can accomplish this using the sendmail configuration within your php.ini.
Create a file named smtp_catcher.php and the set the sendmail_path
sendmail_path = "php C:\path\to\file\smtp_catcher.php"
Then in your smtp_catcher.php add this block:
#!/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/bin
<?php
# create a filename for the emlx file
list($ms, $time) = explode(' ', microtime());
$filename = dirname(__FILE__).'/'.date('Y-m-d h.i.s,', $time).substr($ms,2,3).'.emlx';
# write the email contents to the file
$email_contents = fopen('php://stdin', 'r');
$fstat = fstat($email_contents);
file_put_contents($filename, $fstat['size']."\n");
file_put_contents($filename, $email_contents, FILE_APPEND);
# open up the emlx file (using Apple Mail)
exec('open '.escapeshellarg($filename));
?>
Now I am not sure what extension you'll need to use to view the emails but this should catch all emails going out.
NOTE: make sure that php is in your window's environment PATH
When create s/mime email using OpenSSL, and send , the receiving email has smime content attached and signature is verified, but the email body is not visible through email clients such as Mac Mail and ThunderBird. All webmails (eg: Gmail) reads email body properly.
Has anybody ever experienced this ?
Would request to check the mail body for any parsing error. Most of web mailers have advanced mime parsing techniques which are usually based on real time data. But clients like outlook,mac have strictly followed the rfc standards for mail parsings.
I have seen mails which open properly in rediffmail but not on yahoo, also the mails which opens on web interfaces but on outlook they just crap out. Similarly for thunderbird also, but there few extensions available for thunderbird. If you install them then the mails starts to render properly.
You must have used NO_DETACHED signing an MIME. Just like this:
int flags = PKCS7_STREAM;
p7 = PKCS7_sign(scert, skey, NULL, in, flags);
NO_DETACHED means that OpenSSL would sign and pack all of the MIME and the signedData to a .p7m file, which means a normal client could only find a .p7m file in the email. Just use DETACHED flag by which OpenSSL would add a .p7s file as signature data in the end of the previous MIME struct instead of packing all of them.
First:
flags |= PKCS7_DETACHED;
And sign it.
p7 = PKCS7_sign(scert, skey, NULL, in, flags);
Example:
https://github.com/openssl/openssl/blob/6f0ac0e2f27d9240516edb9a23b7863e7ad02898/demos/smime/smsign.c
I am using the latest Joomla build for my website.
Allso we use a DNS record for having the mail delivered to our own server instead of the server on which the website is hosted.
I have used several contact form components, but every sent mail goes to my SPAM folder.
After searching hours on the web (and getting linked to this site frequently) i decided to make a new post.
It does not matter if i use the standard joomla forms, or any component.
Whenever a user fills in a form on my website, the email gets sent. The user receives a copy of its message, and i receive the message of the user. However, this message gets thrown in the spam folder, as phishing.
The sender of the mail always is: username#nameserver.i3d.net; namens; websitename
What do i have to change/enable/disable for this to work?
Thanks in advance.
Patrick.
(Sorry, I'm new to Joomla, but it uses PHP, so this may apply. Also this answer got a little long...)
It might be an issue with the email headers. A lot of email clients will automatically spam-box all mail where the address in the From: header doesn't match the envelope sender. As an analogy, you might not trust a snail-mail letter signed "Your Rich Uncle", mailed in an envelope with a Nigerian return address. Also if your envelope sender has a different domain than the one the email is actually sent from, that's another quick ticket to the junk bin. For more info about Gmail's message blocking policies (and general good practices), you can try this help page.
Here's some basic PHP email-sending code:
$to = $userEmailAddress;
$subj = $emailSubject;
$mesg = $emailMessage;
$headers = implode("\r\n",array(
"MIME-Version: 1.0"
,"Content-type: text/html;charset=iso-8859-1"
,"From: WEB_ADMIN_NICE_NAME <WEB_ADMIN#YOURSERVER.COM>" // *** 'From:' header
));
$from = "-fWEB_ADMIN#YOURSERVER.COM"; // *** envelope sender
if(!mail($to, $subj, $text, $headers, $from)){
//Some error handling...
}
On the first line I commented, you'll want to replace WEB_ADMIN_NICE_NAME with the name you want the email recipient to see (e.g. "Bill Gates"), and on both lines, replace WEB_ADMIN#YOURSERVER.COM with the actual return address (e.g. "da_boss#microsoft.com"). Note: whatever address you choose for the return address is where users' replies will be sent.
To reiterate, make sure both lines have the same return address (though the nice name can be anything you like), and make sure that the actual server sending the mail is in fact located at YOURSERVER.COM.
Lastly, I'm not sure where Joomla does its mailing, but if you're totally lost, you can try grepping with -lr for 'mail[[:space:]]*('.
there are several reasons that could make your email look suspicious to spam filters; to find out which head on to:
http://www.mail-tester.com
grab the email address and send an email from your website to it.
Then go back to the page and it will tell you what's wrong.
btw I'm struggling with the same issue,my problem being that on Joomla 2.5.9 apparently when you send html emails, a text-only copy is not added to the message, which is considered "spammish behaviour"
The problem is the i3d.net email address. My personal experience is that their network (31.204.154.0 - 31.204.155.255) is a significant source of spam and they do not action abuse reports. I suggest changing your hosting company.
I've same problem like here. But still not able to solve it.
I've followed steps from here. but doing so doesn't sends mail.
The log file says: Mail is sent. but at the other side mail is not received.
Any ideas why?
Check your SMTP settings and make sure you have defined the right settings for your e-mail host. If you are using a sender e-mail other than Gmail then your settings will be different to the ones used in the Railscast.
The file to check is here: config/initializers/setup_mail.rb.
Edit: It still may be possible that the settings you used in jsp may not match perfectly with the 'phrasing' that Rails expects in the setup_mail.rb file. I have frequently come up against this problem where a slight difference in what SMTP settings you mention / don't mention / how they are worded will determine whether the e-mails send/receive or not.
If your logs show the e-mail is sending to a valid e-mail address (and you are not receiving those e-mails in your inbox or spam filter) then the problem, as far as I know, is most likely to be your SMTP. My advice is to check online for the Rails-specific SMTP settings for your e-mail provider, or in the case that you cannot find them, try different combinations until you find the correct one.
Okay the problem is solved. Problem was my file corresponding to action was not at proper place. Here is quick view on how to do it:
Add following to actionmailer:-
def send_mail
attachments['1.pdf'] = File.read('c:/1.pdf')
mail(:to => "harsh#xyz.com", :subject => "xyz", :from=>"harsh#xyz.com")
mail.deliver
end
Notes:- Make sure that the smtp settings are correct and the file corresponding to the action (In this example send_mail.rhtml) is present under appropriate folder.
I'm trying to piece out how difficult it would be to set up an email server that will accept a URL as the subject of an email and respond with an attached copy of said webpage, or element(s) of that webpage (ie, an image from the page, or all of the videos on the page).
I don't necessarily need the code written for me, but would appreciate if someone could suggest a starting point.
I have very little web-programming knowledge (some C++, some Actionscript), which is partly why I don't even know where to begin.
There is several ways to achieve this.
In most unix MTAs you can set up an alias to pipe all messages for some address through a program.
This program need to parse the message header for the "from" and "subject", fetch the url and sent it back.
You can also do this with a program like fetchmail, so you dont even need to make something in the server side.
Finally, several languages have wonderful libraries fetch the mail using POP3, parse it, fetch the URL from the subject and compose a new mail message. Should be no more than 100 code lines with perl or python.