I use Net::SMTP to automate emails. I want to get notification if someone use email into Outlook I used this:
$smtp->datasend("Disposition-Notification-To: to.me\#domain.com");
The email sent succesfully but the Outlook client is not getting the notification.
Here is a snippet of the code:
$smtp = Net::SMTP->new("my mail host");
$smtp->mail("my\#adress.com);
$smtp->to("someuser#domain.com");
$smtp->data();
$smtp->datasend("Disposition-Notification-To:my\#adress.com");
$smtp->datasend("blah balh");
$smtp->datasend();
$smtp->quit;
The Net::SMTP module is pretty low level for this sort of stuff. You'd have an easier time with a higher level module such as Email::Sender.
It's possible the Outlook client agent is not set up properly to listen for these events. Can you send mail to it via another method? You need to isolate whether it is the listener or the sender that is having problems.
If you can receive mail in Outlook, but just not from your code, then it's your code at fault. Please include more contextual code in your question -- e.g. how is the $smtp object being constructed? Are you making a $smtp->dataend(); call as per the documentation?
Edit (after you included some code): there is a typo in that code; are you using use strict; use warnings; at the top of your script or module? Can you receive mail to your client from other means?
Edit2: if notification is all you're lacking, you should probably dive into the Outlook documentation to see what the criteria are for receiving such notification. e.g. you might need to provide a valid "Date:" header.
You need to include a blank line between the last header and the actual body of the message.
You also seem to be missing a space after the header prefix.
I'd guess that one of these is stopping Outlook from interpreting the header correctly.
Try this:
$smtp->data();
$smtp->datasend("From: my\#address.com");
$smtp->datasend("To: my\#address.com");
$smtp->datasend("Subject: test mail");
$smtp->datasend("Disposition-Notification-To: my\#adress.com");
$stmp->datasend("\n");
$smtp->datasend("blah blah");
$smtp->dataend();
$smtp->quit;
Perhaps Outlook is requiring the Return-Receipt-To header (non-standard, but you are sending to Outlook, afterall).
Related
Before someone says I need to use MIME::Lite or another pm... My job has a BASE set of pms and I can't change them... I really need help working within the confines of my system:
We have been using this code to send email to our clients for years:
open MAIL, "| /usr/lib/sendmail -t";
print MAIL qq[To: $email
From: MyFooFoo\#www.foobar.com
Reply-to: do not reply
Subject: This is the subject
Hello, this is the body of the message
Thank you
];
close MAIL;
Now, they are asking me to EMBED an image in the email... I have tried to use Unix sendmail - html embed image not working as a reference, but I can't figure out the boundary/mime types...
You have to build your mail as a MIME message with multipart/related and then feed it to sendmail. See https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2110, it contains examples of how such mail looks like and how to embed images into HTML mail etc. You probably need a way to base64 encode data, but either you can use MIME::Base64 for it, an external command line tool or program it yourself in just a few lines (see source of MIME::Base64).
is it possible to print transaction email body before email send? I just want to see how to display layout after display value in transactional email.
All Magento emails are send through this method: Mage_Core_Model_Email_Template::send().
Here is how I usually check my e-mail templates. In the method mentioned above, right after these lines:
if($this->isPlain()) {
$mail->setBodyText($text);
} else {
$mail->setBodyHTML($text);
}
I add this:
echo $text;exit;
instead of sending an e-mail it just prints it in the browser.
Don't forget to remove this line after you're done testing.
If you want to use the this in a live environment and save all the send e-mails you will have to do a more elaborate thing, live overriding the class, and not stopping the script at all, but you can do all this in the same place.
I am using the latest Joomla build for my website.
Allso we use a DNS record for having the mail delivered to our own server instead of the server on which the website is hosted.
I have used several contact form components, but every sent mail goes to my SPAM folder.
After searching hours on the web (and getting linked to this site frequently) i decided to make a new post.
It does not matter if i use the standard joomla forms, or any component.
Whenever a user fills in a form on my website, the email gets sent. The user receives a copy of its message, and i receive the message of the user. However, this message gets thrown in the spam folder, as phishing.
The sender of the mail always is: username#nameserver.i3d.net; namens; websitename
What do i have to change/enable/disable for this to work?
Thanks in advance.
Patrick.
(Sorry, I'm new to Joomla, but it uses PHP, so this may apply. Also this answer got a little long...)
It might be an issue with the email headers. A lot of email clients will automatically spam-box all mail where the address in the From: header doesn't match the envelope sender. As an analogy, you might not trust a snail-mail letter signed "Your Rich Uncle", mailed in an envelope with a Nigerian return address. Also if your envelope sender has a different domain than the one the email is actually sent from, that's another quick ticket to the junk bin. For more info about Gmail's message blocking policies (and general good practices), you can try this help page.
Here's some basic PHP email-sending code:
$to = $userEmailAddress;
$subj = $emailSubject;
$mesg = $emailMessage;
$headers = implode("\r\n",array(
"MIME-Version: 1.0"
,"Content-type: text/html;charset=iso-8859-1"
,"From: WEB_ADMIN_NICE_NAME <WEB_ADMIN#YOURSERVER.COM>" // *** 'From:' header
));
$from = "-fWEB_ADMIN#YOURSERVER.COM"; // *** envelope sender
if(!mail($to, $subj, $text, $headers, $from)){
//Some error handling...
}
On the first line I commented, you'll want to replace WEB_ADMIN_NICE_NAME with the name you want the email recipient to see (e.g. "Bill Gates"), and on both lines, replace WEB_ADMIN#YOURSERVER.COM with the actual return address (e.g. "da_boss#microsoft.com"). Note: whatever address you choose for the return address is where users' replies will be sent.
To reiterate, make sure both lines have the same return address (though the nice name can be anything you like), and make sure that the actual server sending the mail is in fact located at YOURSERVER.COM.
Lastly, I'm not sure where Joomla does its mailing, but if you're totally lost, you can try grepping with -lr for 'mail[[:space:]]*('.
there are several reasons that could make your email look suspicious to spam filters; to find out which head on to:
http://www.mail-tester.com
grab the email address and send an email from your website to it.
Then go back to the page and it will tell you what's wrong.
btw I'm struggling with the same issue,my problem being that on Joomla 2.5.9 apparently when you send html emails, a text-only copy is not added to the message, which is considered "spammish behaviour"
The problem is the i3d.net email address. My personal experience is that their network (31.204.154.0 - 31.204.155.255) is a significant source of spam and they do not action abuse reports. I suggest changing your hosting company.
How do you send the content of a website form to an email address without disclosing the email address to the user.
Thanks!
PS: If at all possible, I would like this to be in HTML JavaScript Ok, anything I guess.
Not possible. You can however put a "fake" from header in the mail. You'll only risk it to end up in the junk folder.
HTML doesn't provide any functionality to send mails. You'll really need to do this in the server side. How exactly to do this depends on the server side programming language in question. In PHP for example, you have the mail() function. In Java you have the JavaMail API. And so on.
Regardless of the language used, you'll need a SMTP server as well. It's the one responsible for actually sending the mail. You can use the one from your ISP or a public email provider (Gmail, Yahoo, etc), but you'll be forced to use your account name in the from header. You can also register a domain with a mailbox and just register something like noreply#example.com and use this to send mails from.
Update: JavaScript can't send mails as well. Like HTML it's a client side language. You'll need to do it with a server side language. All JavaScript can do is to dump the entire page content back to the server side. jQuery may be useful in this:
$.post('/your-server-side-script-url', { body: $('body').html(); });
with (PHP targeted example)
$to = 'to#example.com';
$subject = 'Page contents';
$body = $_POST['body']
$headers = prepare_mail_headers();
mail($to, $subject, $body, $headers);
Update 2: if you actually want to hide the to header in the mail, then you'll need to use the bcc (Blind Carbon Copy) instead. This way the recipient addres(ses) will be undisclosed. Only the from, to, cc stays visible.
If you mean doing so on a client side, using mailto: link - you can not.
If you mean any way, yes - you submit the form contents back to your server, and have your back end script send the email.
You can do the form in HTML, but the posting will need to be done in a script. Even if you don't expose the email address, the script can be used to spam that email address. This is why you see captcha being used in such cases.
There are scripts available for most languages. Check to make sure their are no known security problems for the scripts. The original Matt's script in perl had problems, and the Perl community created a more secure version.
What techniques are available for sending an email via a webpage or a form on a webpage?
I've got some background idea that you POST the form data to a script but I've don't really know what a cgi script is (I'd love to learn if this is the suggested method!) or what the current practice is.
This is just to provide some way for users to contact the operators. The in-page form seems like it would be easier on the user than ask them to open their mail client. I was also concerned about bots harvesting the contact email address (in the case of mailto: links).
When you submit a form, the data in that form gets sent to the server-side script. For example, in PHP you access that data with the $_POST array, the <input name=""> becomes the arrays index.. For example..
// <form action="mailer.php">[..]<input name="subject" [..]><input name="content" [..]></form>
echo("The subject is: ". $_POST['subject']);
echo("The content is:" . $_POST['content']);
At the most basic level, all you have to do is use your programming languages built in mail function. Again, in PHP this is simple mail():
mail($to, $subject, $message);
You would just set $to to your email address (Do not allow the user to set this, or they are able to send mail as "you", to anyone - "spam"..), $subject and $message would be set form $_POST[]
Before you go any have a HTML file that goes to a script with mail("me#example.com", $_POST['subject'], $_POST['content']);, think what would happen if someone reloaded that page 200 times.. You must have some kind of security in it, probably a captcha, and/or rate-limiting.
One thing, that has bugged me before - remember a "contact us form" is not a replacement for giving an actual email address! For example, my mail client keeps a copy of all mail I send, and I can attach files, and it's much nicer writing in a familiar mail client than a form <textarea> (especially when the I accidently hit "back" and the form decides to clear itself)!
For most unix/bsd/linux systems, most languages provide a programmatic wrapper around the Mail command.
If you are using the ASP.NET 2.0, you can use the System.Net.Mail namespace.
More information here
todays languages for web development usually have libraries for sending e-mail. it depends which language you use, but you'd find it in your language's docs. it's pretty simple, the library inside your language usually encapsulates and provides 'smtp client' behavior which you use. you provide mail message with sender and recipient, and the data for connecting to your SMTP server.
or, you sometimes may use the SMTP capabilities on the machine where your web server is, if those are available. i'm not sure whether it gets worse for the e-mail at the recipient server because your server might not be recognized as mail server for the domain... someone with more experience might comment on that.
Well, here's what not to do:
Please spam me, kthx
It is a better code pattern to have users submit a form, sanitize the input and format it however you see fit, and then pass the data to a mail function in your language of choice.
Sending mail should be done server-side - the specifics change according to your server-side language, your operating system, and what access your server has to an SMTP server.
If you're looking for a lightweight way to add a contact form to a blog or public website, try Wufoo - you can add a contact form that will send you email very easily (up to 3 forms for free). I am not affiliated with them, I just think they're cool.