I'm putting together an eblast via sendblaster where I have a qualified list of email addresses; in the email copy is a link to a web page to look at a listing of products (on a web page) with a button to request bulk pricing. onclick I need the checked items and the email address of the person who filled in the form to be emailed back to a given email address including the user's email address (using php mail function for this). How do I pull the user's email address from sendblaster (or an IP address) and auto-fill it in the form?
I believe you need to use #email# tag in your mail:
http://www.sendblaster.com/support/newsletter-creation/email-merge-software-tutorial-newsletter-personalization
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I'm running a wiki based on mediawiki 1.21.11. Because I can't prevent users to change their e-mail address, I want to get informed (e.g. by mail) about this change.
My question: is there any possibility to send e. g. a copy of the notification mail or another notification including the old or new e-mail address to a specified recipient when users change their e-mail address?
You can prevent users from changing their email address with an auth plugin, although it seems like a horrible thing to do. You can use some hook to send you notifications - PrefsEmailAudit or UserSetEmail if you don't require confirmations, ConfirmEmailComplete if you do.
I saw in some advertising websites, that when you want to send an email to the ad owner, it does not show the real email, but rather the email address under that website's domain(which definitely looks like auto-generated, rather than chosen by the user), say smth like n8MngCo5cHg#example.com.
So, AFA I understand, when an email is being sent to that address, it is being redirected to the ad owner's real email. I am trying to to do the same thing by php.
QSN1 By php script, how to create that email address for the user, when he registers ?
QSN2 Is there a way (again by code) to set up a forwarder, so emails sent to n8MngCo5cHg#example.com automatically will be redirected to user's real email user_email#gmail.com, or I should fetch emails by IMAP from time to time and send to to the user ?
I am using apache2.x/Debian 7, if it matters.
These two questions I found, are for cpanel, but I am not using it or any other UI.
Create an email account with PhP - With some things I need to work around
Create emails accounts using PHP
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Here is one way that you can create an random 'alias' email address:
$aliasaddress=md5(uniqid(mt_rand(),1)) . "#example.com";
Then, as SyedQarib suggests, you would store the alias address and the actual address in a database, so that your program can get the actual address given an alias address.
Finally, you would need to setup your mail server with wildcarding such that it accepts messages to *#example.com, and forward each incoming message to your PHP script, so that for each incoming message to an alias address, your script would parse the incoming message, capture the alias address that it's addressed to, query the database to find the corresponding actual address, then forward the message to the actual address. For information on how to setup a mail server to forward incoming messages to a script, see http://harrybailey.com/2009/02/send-or-pipe-an-email-to-a-php-script/ or How to setup a mail server?
I am coding Mailchimp Template, what I have to do is add a Text box in Email template and the one who receives email will enter some value in text box and press send button in email, and entered value will be sent to my email address as email, I know very well how to code mailchimp templates but really have no idea to add textbox and gets its value and send to my email account Please guide me how to do it.
You will need to create a HTML form with a POST or GET action that sends the data to a server, then from there you can email the value to yourself. You cannot rely on the viewer's computer to send the email.
How can I automatically create an email address for my website members and forward the mail to their own email address.
eg.
john123 signs up to my members site.
script automatically creates email address john123#mydomain.com
mail to john123#mydomain.com goes to johns email address: john123#hotmail.com
If i remember this correctly, this is how i did it. This is not how you envision it to happen though.
1 : Instead of bouncing emails which were sent to a wrong email addy, i routed them to a PHP script.
2 : The script parsed the username part in the "To" field and checked in DB, if match found, get the real email
3 : Re-mail the email to real address.
I am trying to build a email messaging system for a classified site ( a la craigslist), so that users can email each other. emails of registered users are stored in a database.
What I want is for the recipients email address to be hidden from the sender's . If I just use the mail() function and dynamically get the recipients email from the database, will this email be visible to the person sending the mail ??
if the recipients email is indeed hidden from the sender's when using mail() this way, then why does craigslist anonymize's email ? isn't it already anonymous ?
Edit: so the email won't be visible to the person filling the form. SO the question remains is why does craigslist anonymizes email addresses? and whether I should implement the same ?
Craigslist doesn't use a form to submit. They provide an email address. When the users send the email using their own email system to #craigslist.org, then their servers get that email, look up the appropriate record, and forward the email to the real email address, so the sender never sees the real email address of the person.
If you're providing a form for the users to fill out, then you're doing something completely different from craigslist. You don't have to show the person's real email address on the form, and they're using your form, not their own email program, to do the reply, so there's no need to show any email address at all, anonymous or real.
If you're going to let people use their own email programs and provide them with an email address, then use the anonymizing service, which will add some load to your servers since they'll have to parse and process incoming emails at a variety of addresses. If you're using a form, you don't have to show any email addresses at all.
You are the one sending it, and it really comes from your server, not the person who filled out the form on your website. So no, there is absolutely no way they can see the real address it went to.
Why does craigslist take it a step further? Not sure, but its not for that reason.