I am working on a project. I have many databases in which email contacts are maintained. Each database is location on a different server and each of them is used by different personnels to send emails. I want to unify these contacts, keep them sync and available to all the personnel who broadcast mails.
My solution: This is a distributed solution. Maintain continuously updated XML file on each server. When a broadcast mail is composed, fetch all files, merge them etc.
My question: How can I integrate this solution with an email client. Which opensource client is suitable for this? I want the phonebook to be updated when compose button is clicked.
I am open to other suggestions. May be some opensource solution that works out of the box for me.
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Novice in the tech aspects of email servers here:
Situation: We have an old hosting (and mail) provider that we're moving away from. They are using Mail Enable Enterprise (it's a microsoft server in case it matters and they don't have cPanel). They have 7 GB of our email messages on their server, we also have those messsages downloaded to a machine via IMAP.
We need to: transfer these messages to a new server / provider. I went ahead and asked HostGator tech.support and they are unable to do the import so I am looking for a different provider who can import the messages (and folders) and then just be a good email provider.
Question: Could you suggest a provider (does Google Apps do that?) that let's me import / upload messages to their server OR maybe suggest another way of solving this.
Well, you have IMAP on both sides, right?
Drag'n'drop in your email client will work just fine. Yes, it's a lot of data, and it might take a bit, but it's the simplest thing that might possibly work. It's hard to go wrong with simple things.
There's also imapsync, but then you'll need to already know the login information on both sides, which is something you might not have for every account on the old server.
Recently i decided to build this kind of web application. But i have got no experience for this.
So, to begin with,
Are those system using SMTP function and include those mail plugin such as PHPmailer??
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You have two options at your disposal.
Roll your own SMTP server + use a pre-built library relevant to your language/framework (PHPmailer)
Purchase the services of an email service provider
If you want to go with the second, you are giving up direct control so that you won't have to maintain an SMTP server, the emails will get into inboxes without question, and you'll get detailed statistics about what you are sending and what people are doing with it.
With the second option, you have two types: transactional and bulk.
Transactional Mail Providers:
PostageApp
Sendgrid
PostmarkApp
Bulk Mail Providers:
MailChimp
AWeber
Exact Target
Constant Contact
Take a look at your service and determine what sort of mail you will be sending (most likely bulk) and pick your provider based on the features you will be needing.
The correct answer is "propably", since you can't know about all systems. The easiest way to get answer is to look at similar OSS projects source code.
A client is moving from their old hosting to mine. They have a few email accounts on the old hosting and I want to move all the emails on the old hosting to mine. How can I do this? If I download them with POP can I then upload them to the new hosting?
The answer depends on the mail server that you are using. Yes, you can download all the mail messages with POP3, but the upload to your mail server will depend on the type of mail server. I am not aware of any mail servers that provide a tool to import mail messages.
Most mail servers store the email message in a file, and you can certainly drop the files in the folder where they are stored, but that does not mean that it will be visible, you will have to deal with how the mail server index those files.
I suggest looking at the specifications for your mail server.
If you access both accounts with IMAP (most hosts support this now) instead of POP, you can literally drag and drop the messages between folders/inboxes for the two email accounts.
Also, depending on the type of hosting they're moving from/to, you may be able to use a feature of your new server's control panel to do the importing...unless you're doing it manually on a vanilla VPS or dedicated. There are still options, but you'd need to confirm here how your new server is setup and what the old server looks like.
If you're only talking about a couple of accounts with a few folders each, you may just want to consider IMAP as your path of least resistance. The transfer will primarily depend on your own Internet connection, as most hosting companies have connections faster than yours.
Lastly, if both servers share a similar format for the mailbox, you might want to just rsync the email over to the new server (assuming you have root access on both servers) to the proper email directory. Depending on the email box format, you may be able to simply run a server command to "convert" the mailbox to the format your server is expecting.
I am helping a Los Angeles choreographer to transition away from sending her announcements via Entourage.
Here's the situation: She has multiple conact groups, and sends classes and performance announcements several times a month, to different groups.
She manages the contact groups manually. The group size is between 1500 and 2500 people.
Recently verizon blocked her outgoing port 25, presumably for spam activity. Again, her contacts are interested in the content.
She is aware of mailchimp, constantcontact etc. but would like to be able to send the email via her email software and not have to create a newsletter for every single mailing. Also, she's very short on $$.
So, what would be the best way to set up a system allowing her to send announcements from Entourage, with attached images, to her lists, without having Entourage send every single email?
I am thinking of setting up a set of mailing lists, each corresponding to one of her groups. I have never set up a mailing list before and am wondering if it's possible to have a list accept emails from only one person (Admin) and distribute them to the group?
Recipients should be able to unsubscribe easily, and by default reply to her but not the list. She should be the only one able to use the list for distribution, and should be able to send messages (with attachments) directly from her email client without modification.
Is this possible? Where can I find step-by-step instructions? What are best practices to avoid her domain being blacklisted? What's the easiest way to convert her contact groups to mailing list subscribers?
I am helping her for free, so the simpler the better :)
Thank you!
UPDATE: She has a standard linux hosting account allowing her to run php etc. And, ideally, the emails would come from her personally or at least from her domain name.
Does she have web hosting? If so, PHPList is a decent piece of software that allows you to create and manage multiple lists, save message templates, and throttle outgoing messages to appease spam blockers.
I believe Google Groups will accomplish all of your requirements.
http://groups.google.com
I have gradually abandonned my offline emailer and switched to an online one, but I still use it to regularly collect my received emails and archive them. Is there something that would also allow me to collect the mails originaly sent online (other than systematically cc'ing them to myself), or (even better) to 'synchronise' the sent folders of the 2 emailers?
If your online provider supports IMAP, that would be the way to go.