Facebook filters many messages to the Other Messages folder (http://betabeat.com/2011/12/return-of-laptop-lost-in-taxi-foiled-by-facebooks-obscure-message-folder/).
Does anyone know how they filter incoming mail to #facebook.com email addresses? Can non-friends email users at #facebook? Can apps?
If the user replies to an e-mail in the Other messages folder, that e-mail address is then whitelisted, and subsequent e-mails will end up in the Messages folder.
I read somewhere that you only have to move a message from Other messages to Messages to whitelist the sender of that message, but that doesn't seem to work.
According to this facebook help center post:
You'll see mostly messages from friends and people you may know (ex: friends of friends) in your inbox. Typically, messages from other people will go to your Other folder, and you won't receive a notification about them.
You may sometimes get messages in your inbox from people you're not connected to. Some examples of when these messages may go to your inbox are:
A friend of a friend includes you in a message along with some of your mutual friends
A member of a group you're in messages you or includes you in a message
A friend who isn't on Facebook uses your contact info to send you a message from the Facebook Messenger app.
Additionally, someone you're not connected to on Facebook may pay to ensure their message is routed to your inbox instead of your Other folder.
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I will name my firstborn after whoever answers my question!
My bot uses the Handover Protocol to transfer users from the bot (primary receiver) to the page's inbox (secondary receiver) after they tap on a 'chat with human' button, the problem is that I'm not getting any facebook notifications when the user starts messaging a human (page inbox).
Right now I'm having the bot email me anytime it transfers a user to a human but this fix obviously doesn't scale, ideally I would want facebook to send me notifications on my phone just like it does by default to pages that receive messages and don't have any bots installed.
I know I can see the messages sent to a human by using the 'standby' webhook but those are developer-side server logs, what I want are normal facebook notifications sent to the page owner and the people in the page's Roles so they reply to those messages instead of me (the developer) being the only one being notified through emails I have to send myself.
1.You have to go to Your Page--> Settings--> Notifications--> Select this option
from Messages- "Get a notification each time your Page receives a message".
2.Download "Facebook Pages Manager" App to get all your page related notification
on your phone.
I want to get email addresses from my account with API. I can get those emails from my contacts, but don't succeed to get those emails who are not in my contacts, but I had email conversations with them before. From where I can get any doc or information how to get that information from API?
I think your only option is going to be doing a user.messages.list loop though each message and run a user.messages.get and check the sender email address.
The API doesn't return the the information you are looking for. You could also just start adding these people to your contacts.
Its an interesting idea you may want to submit it as a feature request. Issue tracker
I have set up a basic install of XMPPHP and to test it I tried sending a message from one of my gtalk (GoogleTalk) accounts to another gTalk account. The receiving account did not show the message, or the normal "user * has sent you a message: accept/block"
I then sent my receiving account a chat message from within the Google interface, and it prompted me (as expected) to add my account to the list of approved chat people.
Once my sending account was on the "approved" list, i was able successfully to send messages with xmpphp with no problem.
My question: Using xmpphp, how do i send an INVITATION to chat? I can send messages fine once the recipient accepts my incoming chats, but the first message sent does not trigger the chat program to prompt me to accept the messages.
As a follow-up...is there a way to find out if the recipient has accepted the request? ANy way to know that the messages are being delivered (or not)?
I had the same problem and the solution is to send a "subscribe" request before the message.
So just call
$conn->subscribe('someguy#someserver.net');
before
$conn->message('someguy#someserver.net', 'This is a test message!');
With the new #facebook.com emails being available for all users I'm wondering if there is an Graph API call that can be made to obtain a users facebook email address?
From what I've seen you can simple take the users alias (as we see in the URL) and slap on the #facbook.com to get the email. Until I cam across a friend who had his FB Id instead of the alias listed on his account.
I tested this by sending an email to myself using myid#facebook.com and myalias#facebook.com. The ID failed to send while the alias sent and was received with no issues.
Ideas?
Thanks.
Some people can receive mails from both ID#facebook.com and ALIAS#facebook.com, and some people cannot receive ID#facebook.com with an mailer error saying that it's not in their address book.
I wasn't able to see any pattern here, it was random. Not sure this is an error or a spec.
In Google Talk, how to send a message to person that is not in my friend list?
I work on an application that notify customers of a bank about change of their accounts. When I send a message to a person not in my list, no error is created, but the message isn't delivered to the recipient.
Because of design issues it is not suitable to send an invitation to customers and store information about their responses to it.
You can message a user directly using XMPP without an active presence subscription (the requirement for an item to appear in your roster), but most clients (Google Talk clients included AFAIK) will discard the message upon reception, if the from header does not match a bare JID in their roster.