I'm new to joomla and I am looking for a module or component that allows users to create their e-mail id on my domain.
I've purchased the mail space from my provider but I don't know how to use it.
I want a full mailing feature in my website. Please guide me.
This depends very much on your web/email provider. Contact them first. I have never seen anyone offering an API for managing email accounts, so I'm not very hopeful.
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Hej there,
I am currently try to find a solution for showing an avatar to the e-mails sent by own organization. Our e-mails are not bound to Google Workspace, because we don't want to pay for features that we're not using.
So far I added a BIMI DNS entry to our domain (currently without DKMI). I tried to figure out how other people / organizations solve the problem, but could find neither a BIMI TXT DNS entry on their domain nor an entry on Gravatar. Possibly they have an Google Workspace account, but maybe there is another solution I could not find yet.
Has anybody an idea how to get our avatar to e. g. Gmail e-mail boxes?
(Yes, I know about X-Face or Face header in e-mail, but I don't think that Gmail supports them – I also could not find them in any e-mail)
The official solution is to reference a Verified Mark Certificate (VMC) in your BIMI record. This handles all of your email addresses at once. Your logo needs to be registered as a trademark, and you will need to purchase a VMC from DigiCert or Entrust. The cost to register a trademark is roughly $660, plus attorney fees, and the cost to purchase a VMC is $1,499 per year.
The solution provided by #HTeaMeuLeu is a free alternative for anyone who can't afford a VMC.
Create a Google account with your company's email address.
Change the profile picture to your company's logo.
Wait up to 48 hours for the logo to become visible in the inbox.
Do not create the Google account using the "To manage my business" option. This account type isn't able to change its profile picture, and the account type can't be changed after its created.
For everyone else:
First, you will need complete the BIMI specification. Then, you will need to complete any additional requirements that each email service provider may have to display the logo in their inbox. This tutorial walks you through the process and explains everything you need to know.
Here’s a detailed article on how to do this for a newsletter: Logos in the Inbox: Gmail.
You basically need to create a Google account without Gmail (at https://accounts.google.com/SignUpWithoutGmail) and setup your image there.
I'm able to setup sugarcrm to my local machine. Also I've a bit of knowledge of studio. Now I've got a requirement like login to sugarcrm using google account. If user want to login to sugar he/she'll have to use his/her google credential. If the credential is correct and the email id matches with the email id for a user in user module, the he'll be able to login to sugar.
I'm pretty new to sugar so please provide help. Please write if the problem description is not clear to you.
Thanks
It sounds like your goal is to enable Google Authentication within SugarCRM, which would mean a rewrite of the entire login page and process. I think that's beyond the scope of a SO post, but I think you'd start here: https://code.google.com/p/google-authenticator/
SugarCRM does come equipped with the Zend Library, including a lot of classes for working with Google APIs, so that's a plus.
A simpler answer, if it meets requirements, is to set the Users' user_names to their google email addresses, either #gmail.com or #googleappdomain.com, whatever. The draw back here is that the accounts aren't actually linked with Google, so passwords won't stay in sync.
I have a school project to do which requires us to develop an online voting website. how do i ensure one user has voted once only?
the website is supposed to be in booths in public places which means i cannot use ip addresses or cookies. i was planning to use fb login id or maybe some other email id but i cannot find relevant codes/links. i just want people to go through the procedure of entering the log in id but not go to fb directly.
my website cannot be published online.
could you please suggest how i can achieve this? it is a bit urgent, thank you!
I am evaluating cloud e-mail solutions based upon:
Google Apps for Education
Microsoft Live#edu
I work for a University and we currently have an institutional portal (based on uPortal).
We currently have our local IMAP server and webmail client fully integrated with the portal. We would like to replicate the current portal e-mail experience with the new e-mail services. At present users can see a snapshot of their inbox in the portal and click through into the appropriate place in the webmail client.
We expect that we need to solve similar problems when integrating with the cloud based e-mail solutions.
We need to solve the single sign-on (SSO) problem.
We need to be able to access the inbox messages on the users behalf. (e.g. proxy authentication)
Does anybody have an experience or advice on this?
Many thanks,
Mark
Not sure what programming language you can use, however you can download the source code for some MOSS web parts for live#edu to give you an idea how to code them, they use SSO.
If anybody else happens upon this page they might also be interested the answers I recieved via the Jasig uPortal Mailing List answers
a lot of websites like twitter, facebook and others let the users enter their email id and pwd and 'extract' the contacts based on that.
Anyone know how this is done?
They login to your account and scrape the contents, or use a public API. Either way, it's not a method that I would implement or use myself because I wouldn't trust anyone else with my credentials. And I think it teaches users to be careless with the secrecy of their credentials.
Leaving aside the ethical questions, there's a commercial library available that can do this for you: http://www.octazen.com/product_abimporter.php
The library is available for PHP, .NET, Java, Ruby & ColdFusion. It supports importing contacts from dozens of different services (including all the main ones).
It only costs about $100 for a licence, works perfectly and (using the Java version) only requires this single line of code to import contacts from any of the supported services:
List<Contact> contacts = SimpleAddressBookImporter.fetchContacts(emailAddress, password)
They have another library that can import friend lists from social networks, though I haven't tried that one.
This is the sort of thing OAuth was designed for. Google have started to adopt it. It doesn't have the same trust issues as the more typical scraping.
Unfortunately, for the time being, people tend to just ask for your password, log in as you, and scrape the information, which is far less secure, as it gives the website total access to your account. This isn't something you should copy, use OAuth or an equivalent wherever possible.
There are APis available:
Yahoo --> http://developer.yahoo.com/addressbook/
Google --> http://code.google.com/apis/contacts/
None for AOL (yet).
I assume they log into your email account, either by POP3, a public API or they know the html formatting of webmail systems and read the DOM. Then they find whoever you recieved and sent emails to and looks through it's own user database to find matches.
yeah, I agree. trusting a site with your email credentials isnt safe. Especially after what was found by gmail archiver (http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/11/1723206&from=rss)
But just from programmatic POV I was wondering how they did this. maybe Gmail hotmail and all others do have API's which users can use....need to look into it more i guess.
The contact list Java library is easy to use and works well with Gmail, Yahoo!, yeah, Hotmail and MSN.
For gmail:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gmail-api
http://johnvey.com/features/gmailapi/