Email message recall does it actually work? [closed] - email

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I was asked to recall a message I sent out to remove some personal info from it and replace it with a generic made up person as an example.
Does message recall really work?
It's my opinion because you get told a message has been recalled it just causes you to want to find out what was in the original message. All you do is find someone who had already read it.
Can exchange server be adjusted to not tell users when a message is recalled or replaced?
What about bcc, recall doesn't seem to work on these and global emails tend to be the ones you really need to recall.
EDIT Also people with smartphones which is common now don't seem to get email retrieved from their phone either

In most cases, it's too late, it just let's me know there was an email you didn't want me to read.

Only works on unopened mail, for users of MS Exchange/Outlook.
read this blog post and comments for more information.

To add a bit of information, if the message is displayed in a preview pane, it is considered read making recalling impossible.
We did some testing just yeasterday and discovered that the recall feature is pretty lame. As mentioned above it is only recalled if it is unread (or unpreviewed). In the case where it has been read, the recall only makes the message MORE obvious. Not the desired effect by far.

Only works on unopened mail, local to the server you sent it on. (as far as I know, I suppose it could work on server farms/clusters too?)

If the recipient is offline and message is not delivered to his PST by the Exchange server, then RECALL works and you get the message accordingly.
Thanks & Regards,
Ajay

Yes it is true that the Recall This Message Outlook functionality very often does not work.
WinDeveloper just released a server-side solution for Excahnge 2007/2010. It works equally well for both emails addressed to local recipients and for emails sent to foreign recipients. For more details:
WinDeveloper vs Native Exchange Message Recalling
http://www.windeveloper.com/recall/recall_features.htm
Message Recalling Works! Here is how
http://www.windeveloper.com/recall/recall_howitworks.htm

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Conditional reply to e-mail [migrated]

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I use notmuch in emacs for e-mail and I love it, but I need help in customizing how it handles replies.
I use two e-mail addresses, a personal one and a work one. Most of the time, when I get work e-mail my e-mail address is in the header, and the automatic reply functionality works fine. However, often a work e-mail will come in without my address in the header: for instance, through an Outlook mailing list. In this case, the reply function defaults to my personal e-mail address, which I do not want.
I've already created a function that allows me to change the sender address with a keybinding, but in the moment it is easy to forget to do this. A more seamless experience would greatly improve my life. How can I customize the reply functionality, perhaps conditional on tags or on whether the sender's address contains my work domain?

Is there a need to expire email verification code? [closed]

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I've registered a GitHub account to test their email verification process. So:
They've sent me an email with a link, containing my username and 40-chars code, like:
https://github.com/users/USERNAME/emails/120066679/confirm_verification/47889d71648523e5d99db5b969f59809c2715fb6
I have not followed the link
4 days later, the've sent me another (a reminder), that I have to verify my email, containing link with another different 40-chars code
So, what was the purpose of changing 40-chars code? As I remember, other services, used to expire verification code anyway. If there is already a username in verification link, is there really a need to do that? In case of brute force, I can just count failed attempts related to specific user and block it, right?
P.S. Also interesting, what is the purpose of emails/120066679 in link? (which is similar for both letters)
There are several reasons why quick expiration of verification codes is the best practice.
If protection with a verification code is deemed appropriate, it's safest to make it not only complex enough but also valid for minimum amount of time. If you only make the code work for the time needed (usually really short), you diminish the risk of someone abusing it. (For example, someone could programmatically 'guess' the codes - the more time for this exercise, the higher chance for success.)
Also, it's not efficient to store data of this kind. It's used once, it doesn't contain any actual information and as soon as it's used, it's ready to be "thrown away". It's not a good practice to store anything that doesn't add value when stored.
In addition, it's fairly rare that users don't use the codes immediately/soon. For the small percentage of cases where the code expires by the time the user tries to use it, it's more efficient to generate new ones.
Well, the purpose of an email validation link is to make sure that you actually own the email. Most validation links simply contain some secret that they send out your way, only in the possession of which may you verify the email address.
The reason they changed the code is because it probably expires. In that case you could not activate the account, so they sent you another in case you'd like to continue.
What if they don't send out a secret like this then?
In that case there is nothing that prevents an attacker from "verifying" emails that they actually have no control over. They could just visit the url with the username plugged in and activate the account.
Normal users would not do this, but spammers might.
For the case of brute force:
If the secret is sufficiently random, and the keyspace is large enough, trying to guess it is a fool's errand.
We can assume this is a random 40 hex char number, which gives us:
16**40 == 1461501637330902918203684832716283019655932542976
possible values for it. It is safe to say that no one will guess this number in the near future.

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I have been trying to integrate Sage Pay using their form integration but cannot get passed the infamous 5080 error. I have been through 10 days of back and forth with Sage support and thay have conceded that they can no longer help and are convinced it is an encryption issue. I have also trawled through the answers here and I cannot seem to get the solution. I have done many integrations using other systems before but the lack of feedback from the system is very frustrating makes debugging almost impossible
Things I can confirm:
- PHP Version 7.0.15, as part of Wordpress install
- passing unique VendorTxCode
- passing all required fields with live success & failure URLS
- passing VPSProtocal, TxType, VendorName and Crypt (confirmed by viewing network tool in Chrome aftre request fails)
- tried both test and live portal using the relevant keys and correct gateways
- had numerous showposts viewed by support and verified as correct format
- confirmed the encryption - supplied an unencrypted string to support, their escalation team encrypted the string and sent back encrypted string - used a string compare app to compare strings and they are identical
- I cannot seem to see Invalid transactions in portal as I dont have a transations tab to view and support said thay cannot even see the request attempst hitting the server.
They keep telling me its an encryption issue Any suggestions as how to best debug this or any unapparent solutions that helped others woudl be of great help - im not sure what is best to post here for you to see but I can as required
Many thanks
Log into My Sage Pay with your admin credentials, create a user and give that user permission to see transactions (etc - just click the lot!). Log in as that user and you will be able to see transactions. Look under Invalid, and you should see the reason.
Check you are using the correct encryption password. They are different for live / test
Failing that, post your unencrypted crypt string here - I will look at it and tell you where you are going wrong.
https://test.sagepay.com/gateway/service/vspform-register.vsp?VPSProtocol=3.00&TxType=PAYMENT&Vendor=sagepaylabs2&Crypt=#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

Sending an email from a UITextfield [closed]

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I'd like a user to be able to enter a string into a textfield, press done, and have the data emailed to my inbox, but I have no idea how to go about doing this. Could somebody describe the basic steps I need to look into, things I need to learn, recommend tutorials, sample code, etc. I would like to avoid opening the mail app if possible.
Thanks.
Look in the apple documentation for UI Message framework at http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/documentation/MessageUI/Reference/MessageUI_Framework_Reference/MessageUI_Framework_Reference.pdf, they hasve MFMailComposeViewController etc, I never used them, they provide UIs to write emails, I dont know if you can behind the scenes make it send an email (maybe its possible), youll have to look through the docs and figure it out. If it doesnt do it for you, you can always make an SMPT protocol and send the emails yourself...(you should be able to find something of use in the UI Message framework though i would think)
If you want the email to come from the user's own personal account then you have to either:
Use the built-in MFMailComposeViewController (which puts up a mail editing page) or
Use an SMTP client library like http://code.google.com/p/skpsmtpmessage/. However, in this case, you'll have to get SMTP account information from the user (i.e. userid, email address, password).
If all you want is the body of the text box and you don't care about the return email address you can set up a simple mail re-sender web service (there's tons of PHP/Ruby/Python code out there for sending email from a script). Then behind the scenes your iPhone app fires off an HTTP request to your web-server who then formats it as a mail message and forwards it to you.
This is probably the most user-friendly since it requires minimal input from the user, but you may want to put up safeguards (like using SSL and/or authentication) to restrict access to the web-service URL from only your app.
Something like this should work:
NSString *s = #"mailto:addressee#apple.com?subject=iPhone%20Question&body=Where%20is%20mine?";
NSURL *url = [[NSURL alloc] initWithString: s];
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL: url];
That's about right, I think. The %20's are for embedded spaces -- if you put real values in place of the ones I have hard-coded above, you will want to do text-replaces for spaces and other problematic characters in the URL. I'm no expert, perhaps someone else can point to a guide.
Note that the application is exited if the openURL call succeeds, so you don't really have to worry about cleaning up things like "url" above.
Alternatively, that MFMailComposeViewController referenced above might be the right way to go -- I'm going to look into it.

MS hotfix delayed delivery [closed]

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I just requested a hotfix from support.microsoft.com and put in my email address, but I haven't received the email yet. The splash page I got after I requested the hotfix said:
Hotfix Confirmation
We will send these hotfixes to the following e-mail address:
(my correct email address)
Usually, our hotfix e-mail is delivered to you within five minutes. However, sometimes unforeseen issues in e-mail delivery systems may cause delays.
We will send the e-mail from the “hotfix#microsoft.com” e-mail account. If you use an e-mail filter or a SPAM blocker, we recommend that you add “hotfix#microsoft.com” or the “microsoft.com” domain to your safe senders list. (The safe senders list is also known as a whitelist or an approved senders list.) This will help prevent our e-mail from going into your junk e-mail folder or being automatically deleted.
I'm sure that the email is not getting caught in a spam catcher.
How long does it normally take to get one of these hotfixes? Am I waiting for some human to approve it, or something? Should I just give up and try to get the file I need some other way?
(Update: Replaced "me#mycompany.com" with "(my correct email address)" to resolve Martín Marconcini's ambiguity.)
Took about a day for me when I requested one so I suspect some sort of manual/semi-automated process has to complete before you get the e-mail.
Give it a day before you start bugging them ;)
It usually arrives within the first hour. BUt the fact that it reads me#mycompany.com could either because you put it there to protect your privacy (in which case forget about this) or that the system didn't catch your email and they sent it to me#mycompany.com.
If the email address was ok and you didn't get it, somehow it bounced or it won't arrive. I'd suggest you contact them again providing an alternate email (gmail or such) to make sure that you don't experience any problems.
Last time I received a hotfix it took them 10 minutes.
Good luck with that!