I have a data stream that will be sent as daily emails containing temperature and wind speed from a measurement site. I would like to to automatically filter out these emails from the other emails I receive, then save the email body content to its own text file. Each text file must have a distinct file name; for example it could include the time that the email was sent or received. All files must all end up in a chosen directory. And ideally the process would be robust enough that it could run unattended for weeks. Our email system is Outlook but I could choose to send the email to my gmail account, for example. What is the big picture of how to do this?
Bigger picture: create a VBA script that runs on the Items_ItemAdd event, which fires whenever an email arrives.
Specifics: Use the solution on this page, but in the Items_ItemAdd routine change the olSaveAsMsg to olSaveAsTxt to get the text format you want.
Note that the file name format in the example should match what you need, but you'll need to add criteria to the Items_ItemAdd routine to check that the message is one that you want to save. For example, you could read the Item.Subject property.
it means you are working with exchange, i suggest to use imap protocol to read the mails, and you will be able to save the body.
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I'm retrieving all the messages from a given mailbox, and if one of them contains problematic attachments, I want to send an email to the sender of that message, explaining the problem, and including the original email as an attachment.
I need to either put the message into a stream, or save it to the filesystem. I imagine the former would be better, but I can't see any methods that can do that.
How big are the attachments that you want to forward? With the Graph there is a 4MB limit that you will hit with some of the endpoints that will restrict the methods you can use to do this. Eg if all the Messages are under 4MB then you could either attachment them as an Item attachment https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/message-post-attachments?view=graph-rest-1.0&tabs=http but for your purposes you'll loose fidelity on things like Internet Message headers which won't help with working out what's gone wrong with the message. Probably what you want to do is download the message first as MIME https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/outlook-get-mime-message save it as an Eml file and then attach that file. If you need to deal with 4MB+ emails you need to check the size and use https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/outlook-large-attachments?tabs=http when necessary.
I am just wondering if Netsuite workflow allows us to send an email with a CSV file of a Saved search attached, for example:
We want:
State 1: send an email at a scheduled time using a transactional
saved search as a condition, but instead of attaching a PDF file or
inline text, we would prefer to have a CSV file of all of that saved
search result
State 2: after email is sent, update a custom field
Looking forward to your advices
I was a little bit surprised to see Unsend.it this morning.
How is it possible to unsend or edit a sent email ?
I would like to know technical details of how this works.
Is it possible for us to achieve this through programming ? If possible can anyone present me some code sample ?
They don't actually "un-send" the email. How it works is that the text content of the email is transposed into an image file and the text is removed from the email and replaced with the dynamic image file that contains the transposed text. So it looks like a text email, but is actually an image of the text of your email.
The image is remotely loaded from their servers so if you want to "un-send" the email, they change the image and remove the original text. The email itself remains in the recipients Inboxes', its now just a blank email that has been "un-sent".
Update 2019:
The email is not actually sent, instead they just wait for a cancellation period (which is configurable), to actually send it. So until this time passes, the email is actually sent. So if you click cancel within the timeframe, the email is never sent.
I will be receiving approx 500 emails over the next day or so. The emails are all identical in layout i.e. HTML emails that display information inside a table. There are nested tables within the email.
I need to extract the email address from each email and store it in a file (text/csv). Rather than "copy & paste", is there a php script or some browser plugin I can use to do this?
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I will use php parse by id,class or name and a little script to go throw all the pages inside that folder to extract it as a csv I'll use fputcsv.
Hope it helped.
I am trying to embed an ID into an email so that when a recipient replies to an email that my system sends out, my system can pick it up and match the two together.
I have tried appending a custom header, however this is stripped out when the user replies.
I have tried embedding an HTML comment within the email, but outlook does not seem to keep comments when a reply email is created.
Worst case scenario, I can manually try and match the sent and received emails by time span or have a visible tag within the message body.
Does anyone know of a more elegant solution?
Thanks in advance
Email messages already contain such an identifiers, called Message-ID. And there's even a way to send which message you're replying to by sending that ID in a header called In-Reply-To. That's done by pretty much all email clients, that's how they usually do their threading.
It's defined in RFC 822 (yep that's pretty old) and probably re-defined and refined in more modern versions of that.
I have seen a method that includes a one byte image with a unique name that's linked to the user. When they view the email and download the images, your HTTP server will record a hit for that unique image. Of course the user needs to display images, but you can include a message in the body asking them to display the images. We actually include content in an image so they need to show images.
If your incoming e-mail can handle +foo or -foo suffixes, use that.
Many e-mail systems can route user+foo#example.com or user-foo#example.com
to user#example.com. You can replace foo with some kind of identifier.
Several mailing list servers use this for tracking bounces.
While I can't say for certain, my investigation in that sort of matter some time ago yielded the following "conclusion":
Headers are transformed a lot
Message bodies are transformed a lot
This is partly because, I suspect, of:
Need to protect users from malicious intentions
Need to perform "targeted marketing"
I have seen "unique codes" flying around in clear text in the email body but I would suggest having a unique identifier embedded in the return address instead.
The usual approach is to place the id in the subject line and/or somewhere visible in the message text and informing the recipient that he should not modify the subject or quote the original mail when responding.