Is there a way of sending personalized private information to users through API/FB app?
They have it currently disabled for the legacy messaging system but it appears for the new messaging system they are allowing it again. You probably have to log in, but here is the link.
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/message/
When the user registers with your site you can request the user_email permission to get their email address and you could email them.
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I'm new to quickblox MBaas and I would like to send out an email (to verify e-mail address) to a specific user when he signed up. Is there a standard procedure for this or a way to do this in Quickblox. Many thanks for your help.
There is no a way to do this for API users right now.
The cause of this solution is that it's quite hard sometimes for mobile users to verify an email. Just imagine a situation where user doesn't have a ready for use mail client on his device - then there is no a way to verify an email in this situation.
Other cause is that email verification can complicate your onboarding process.
It's possible to send a greetings email. You can setup it in Admin panel, Users module, Settings tab
I'm currently trying to make a Rails 4.1.1 app that allows users to send custom newsletters. I'd like to do this without asking for the user's mail account password if possible.
I just need it to appear as if the mail was sent from the specified e-mail address. Is this an unreasonable/impossible requirement? Is there any kind of service that can help me achieve it? Are there any common strategies for sending e-mail on a user's behalf?
We want to offer users of our (web-based) personal document management solution the possibility to import documents sent as attachments to their GMail addresses.
Our current solution of just allowing our users's to store their login credentials in our web app and then using this to access the user's GMail inbox via IMAP is not only suboptimal from a security standpoint (we'd rather not store the login credentials, if possible), it also sometimes (maybe when we're polling too often or for too many users's) leads to the login attempts of our app being blocked by GMail. We get the error message "[ALERT] Please log in via your web browser: http://support.google.com/mail/accounts/bin/answer.py?answer=78754" from the IMAP server and our user's report that they see that GMail has blocked some "possible hacking attempts" or similar.
So my main questions are these:
Would switching to OAuth for authentication (and still using IMAP to check our user's inbox, just authenticated with the OAuth tokens) help in this situation? I found documentation on how to do this, I just want to know if it would help in this situation.
Are there any guidelines/quotas/restrictions on how often we should / are allowed to poll a user's inbox (or how many connections we open to GMail in parallel etc.)? I couldn't find anything about this in the developer docs at Googles site.
Is there any other way besides IMAP to be able to import attachments from GMail messages into our app?
Answers to your questions
1.Benefit of using OAuth is that you are not storing user's credential directly.So you will redirect user to google login page,where google will authenticate user and provide you an access token and refresh token,you can then access user's emails using access token and google API.Refresh token is to regenerate that access token.
2.Since gmail supports IMAP4 protocol with Idle you can use it to accept real-time notifications from gmail server when new email comes(you dont need to poll gmail every time)
We are developing a mobile application that communicates with a server, which sends a generated email on behalf of the app user to a facebook user.
The user sending the email is signed on to Facebook.
The email is sent to one or multiple FB friends/connection using their id (example: username#facebook.com).
The sender email can be from any domain and that's where the problem lies. Sending directly from gmail for example, works fine. But because our server is sending on behalf of the user, FB thinks its a spoofed email.
Sending the email from the app is not an option for us at this time.
Is there any way or service that would allow us to do this without having our emails marked as spam?
Facebook is transitioning away from the ability to send emails via an
API call on Mar. 1st. To compensate, they allow apps to now ask for a
user's email address directly.
If you set the email domain in your app's settings, then asking for
the email extended permission gives you the users email address
instead the ability to send an email via the API.
As of Mar. 1, the API will stop working and you are left alone to
figure out your own email solution. This goes for regular
notifications, both user to user and app to user, as well
From here
And:
Please note: We are in the process of deprecating the REST API,
and will not be adding support for this in Graph API.
Developers should directly send email to users once they are granted permission.
From here
However, I would suggest rather sending private message than emails, as described here
I have seen some similar questions here on stack-overflow, but in my application i want when user click on confirm button automatic email go to the email id specified in the form with other details.
How can i implement this.
You could just make a post request to a server and have the server then send the email.
You cannot send emails automatically without sending the user to the mail application. You could however, take advantage of a third party service like Amazon Simple Email Service http://aws.amazon.com/ses/ to send the message.