I am trying to figure out how can I make it possible to send an email from my
application to Sendgrid and have it come back.
I want to use coldfusion to send an email using X-SMTP API. I found a documentation
online here but still wondering if there's any documentation available other
than the web API one?
http://thehatrack.net/blog/integrating-sendgrid-with-your-coldfusion-application/
SendGrid's Event Webhook is the only way to get email reads on an individual basis. This will POST an event to your server every time an email is read (among several other events).
The only "pull" based solution to get individual email events from SendGrid is the bounces endpoint, which will tell you when an email bounces (and is certainly not read), but nothing else.
If you want to retrieve individual read events from SendGrid, you'll need to connect the Event Webhook to an external service like Keen.io, and then leveraging their API to get individual events.
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I want to send emails which contain different contents to same user and I need to track their status. Are there any way to do that without using SMTP.
Sounds like you want Unique Args. These are called custom_args in the v3 API mail send argument, but it's the same concept.
Once you activate the Event Webhook, all events will include the appropriate unique_args, so you can relate each specific message to each.
Also, whenever you send a message to SendGrid, the acceptange response includes a message_id, which will be in all those events.
I see in the SurveyMonkey API there is the send_Flow call, that allows you to create an email collector and an email for it. Is there a way through the API to send a reminder email for an existing email collector? If not, does SurveyMonkey have any plans to add that functionality to the API in the future?
There is currently no way to send a reminder through the API. send_flow doesn't even send an email from the API; it just sets it up and requires a user to complete sending the email from SurveyMonkey's user interface (that's why it's a "flow").
It's possible that the ability to send reminders will be added to the API after sending programmatically is possible, but it's impossible to make and guarantees on future functionality or timing of API features.
I want to collect information about how many emails that I have sent, has been read. I want to use method where I will put image in email and once the image gets rendered I can catch that event. I know this is not hundred percent reliable.
I am using a SendGrid for sending my emails. I was wondering does SendGrid provides service like this?
I was looking through SendGrid documentation but was not able to find what I need.
You want to use the Open Tracking app. You can also enable, disable, and configure this app via the web API or SMTP API headers.
In our SaaS application each company (tenant) is given their custom domain like companyName.ourapp.com
We would like to provide some email services like:
Ability to send and receive email notifications from info#companyName.ourapp.com and similar addresses
Ability to create new email accounts in clients' subdamains at runtime, programmatically, when needed. For example we would have separate emails created for each "opening" so that emails sent to this address would be parsed info would be extracted
Similar tasks
For now I just don't even know on where to look and how this could possibly work.
As far as I understand email it should be some kind of custom mail server (SMTP) serving all sub-domains and having API we can use to send emails, list and retrieve messages etc.
Please suggest how it may work and is there any components out there we can use to implement this.
There are three options for this.
Create an email server and programatically configure it to accept or deny the specific accounts. Then use cron to poll via pop3 or imap and download the messages for the account. You can then send them on for the customer or handle them in your web app.
Create a script that is fired by the email server as it receives each email. The script can then handle what to do with the email as it's received.
Use a third party to receive the email via HTTP Post at your app. Using CloudMailin for example would allow you to create a custom authorization filter that would call your app in realtime and determine if the given account exists and messages should be accepted for it.
I wrote a blog post for Rails about receiving incoming email, however the principals would apply to any programming language and framework.
What is the best way of tracking responses for email campaigns? I was thinking on adding something to the reply-to field of the email (for example luqita+campaigns#stackoverflow.com), but I'm not sure if there is something more neat that could avoid this?
I thought about headers too, but it's important to note that the address luqita#stackoverflow.com would send many different campaigns, and the 'in-reply-to' header info would not be useful then to differentiate (while using luqita+campaign1 or luqita+campaign2 could)
What can I do?
So you want to be able to execute some logic when someone replies to an email you have sent through SendGrid? If you have access to change the MX record of the domain of the email address at which you want to receive the replies, you could use SG's Parse API to get a POST request to a script whenever email is receive at the address.
I think you would indeed have to set a magic reply-to address for each campaign. This seems like a perfectly fine solution; it's also how SG itself tracks bounces - it sets the return-path to something like bounces+{attempted-recipient-email}#sendgrid.com. Then examine the 'to' parameter of the POST notification you receive to know which campaign the reply is associated with.
When you say "tracking responses", do you mean that you expect users will reply to the Email, or do you mean that they'll click on a link in the Email and interact with a web site?
SendGrid obviously offers click tracking and open tracking, and you can set up to 10 different categories for tracking campaign stats and see delivery/bounces/opens/clicks/etc based on those categories. They also have a Google Analytics plugin that can feed back some analytics data to Google. And as #LinusR mentioned in his answer, the SendGrid Parse API can be set up in a way that reply Emails can get parsed and posted back to your site.
If the user will be interacting with your web site, you can use the "unique args" setup at SendGrid to set a unique string/hash to append to any URLs that can help identify a particular user, campaign, or whatever else you want to track.