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
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I built a Looker (Google Data Studio) report. The organization uses Outlook (Microsoft) for their emails (i.e. the domain is registered there, so for example, if the domain was underthesea then an email would be johnsmith#underthesea.com, and this is hosted by Outlook/Azure/Microsoft).
Is there a way to be able to access the report only via the organization's email? (I believe this is called SSO.)
The goal is that only those with active organizational emails would be able to see the report, which has sensitive organizational data in it.
I have researched this and have gotten nowhere. My question is whether this is possible at all since the emails are connected to Microsoft and the dashboard is in a Google application.
If it is possible - how?
I tried researching but it is not clear what is necessary to create the SSO if the organizational emails are not connected to Google.
How to do SSO with Google and Azure: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/saas-apps/google-apps-tutorial
-Integration between Azure and Google SSO: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/21067/integration-between-azure-and-google-sso-and-user
-How to activate SSO from Google documentation: : https://cloud.google.com/architecture/identity/single-sign-on
I just created a static website that is hosted on google storage. My domain is also registered with google domains and I have a business G suite account.
My static website has a 'contact us' form and I wonder if it is possible to use gmail or gsuite (or any gcp services) to send the content of the form as an email to my gmail address.
I know there's services like mailgun, etc. But I'd rather do it using tools from google if possible.
Does anybody know how to do this?
There is a very good option that you can use, within the range of Google products, to achieve the goal of sending emails via Contact Form, with your static website.
This option is actually easy and very simple to configure, I would say, which it's to use the serveless product Cloud Functions. To provide some context on it, you can make the functions trigger via HTTPS request, so it works with your site and you will be able to use it for free, for up to 625 thousands forms submissions per month. I would recommend you to give a look at it, in this complete tutorial here, where you can find the steps.
In addition to this option, you can use Mailgun as you mentioned, but in association with GCP products, to give you this service. You can use Mailgun to send the emails, Cloud Datastore to keep records of it and Cloud Functions to work with these two services. More information can be found in this similar case here.
To summarize, as you would prefer to use tools from Google, to follow the first tutorial, where you will be using Cloud Functions only, to configure your service.
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.
For a couple of days now I've been searching for a solution that integrates ongoing work item communication over email into a specific work item's history.
For example once a ticket is created, if a specific TFS email account is included in email correspondence related to a specific ticket, some service would parse the TFS email account, read the email contents and attach the conversation to the work item. I've seen other ticketing systems support similar functionality.
The major problem I'm trying to solve here is to increase productivity by automatically keeping all tickets in sync with related conversations without user intervention.
Does anyone know of any commercial or open source products that can support this functionality?
I just implemented a cloud service using SendGrid that accepts emails at [workitemid]#mycloudservice.com and appends the email to the History of the work item. So if you forward an email to 1234#mycouldservice.com, the email date/subject/body is appended to the History of work item ID 1234.
Right now I have a lot of things hard-coded to my personal usage, but I'm thinking of making it generic/configurable for public usage. The big caveat is that the TFS server needs to be internet-visible (works great with Team Foundation Service). I'll update this answer when(if) I open it up for general usage. The code that handles the SendGrid POST is here if you're interested.
There is also the TeamCompanion Outlook add-in, that gives you a button in the ribbon to attach the current email to a work item. The last round I went with TeamCompanion I found it OK, but a bit buggy, and it may have slowed Outlook down (or that could have been psychological).
I am having difficult time in importing contact details from MSN/YAHOO/AOL/GMAIL etc. Can someone tell me how to get the contacts from these networks?
Yahoo Address Book API
Google Contacts API
Windows Live Contacts API
One of the ways is to use the open source library SocialAuth.net
It allows you to get contacts from all the three above, with a very simple API.
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