Actually, I want to add the email address automatically join on my google groups by emailing on mygroupname+subscribe#googlegroups.com. But the issue is, when i email from php code to my group email for add. The google first send the reconfirm email to the user email and if direct email from hotmail,yahoo or gmail then google directly add the person as a member.
My Question is: Is this any php email code which works like the second scenerio i.e. add the person directly on group. I used PHP Mailer gmail smtp also but on that case, it adds the smtp user email not the email address which i set on From ? Please help me out.
Thanks in advance!
No, this is on Google's side, not php's Google must confirm the user wants to be added, and confirm the email address is valid.
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I'm using the $email->setFrom('no-reply#example.com'); method and it's working fine for email delivered to the registered sender.
However, the email is delivered as no-reply#example.com.
How can I include the email of the customer that has filled the form? Eh: mario#gmail.com?
If I replace $email->setFrom('mario#gmail.com'); I will get 403.
This happen because I have to register the sender. But I just need to create a simple contact form.
Is there a way to use setFrom using a custom email?
Thanks in advance
Twilio SendGrid developer evangelist here.
When sending emails with SendGrid you do need to verify the email or domain you are sending from. So, you can't use any email address as the from email.
You're creating a contact form, which is why you want the email to appear to come from the person sending it. However, what you really want from that is to be able to reply straight to the person that sent the email.
What you can do is send the email from a domain or email address you have verified and then set the reply-to header to the user's email address. You will receive the email from your chosen email address but when you go to reply the to address will be filled in with the custom email address.
$email->setReplyTo("mario#gmail.com");
how do i validate Existing E-Mail Address.
in a Registration system, when a user enter a Email address it checks if the Email address is existing or not in Ymail/Gmail.
i already have a running domain(for Practice).
You have my regards.
Most registration systems validate an email address by sending an email to it with a uniquely encoded URL in it and requiring the user to go get that email and click on the link. When your server sees that the link has been clicked on the email address is know to be accessed by you.
Here's a basic flowchart for how it works:
User goes to your website
User commences registration and fills in their email address
Server checks to see if email address is in a legal and proper form and is not already registered
If the rest of the user's registration looks good and then email address looks legal, the server creates an account in your system and puts in the "unverified" state.
Then, a code is generated that corresponds to that specific user. That code is put onto an URL and that URL is put into an email which is sent to the email address the user entered.
The user receives the email with instructions to click on the enclosed link.
User retrieves email and clicks on the link.
Your server receives web request from that link. It parses out the code from the URL and checks to see if that code matches an account that is in the "unverified" state. If so, and the account has not expired from too much time elapsing since the email was sent, then the account is put into the "verified" state and is ready for use.
The basic idea of this system is that if you can retrieve an email sent to that email address then the email address must be a valid and working email address and you, the user, must be able to access that email address (it's not just some random email address you made up).
Back in the day, you could easily validate email addresses. Then the spammers came along. Now the only way you can confirm the existence of an email address is by trying to send something to it and checking for bounces. And even then, the lack of a bounce doesn't mean it exists - it could simply have been silently deleted, ignored, spam filtered into oblivion, etc...
Basically, what you want is not possible - any such system would simply help spammers hammer your box with more russian brides popping penis pills while wearing fake rolexes.
SMTP provides VRFY and EXPN verbs to check if an account or mailing list exists. However, most server admins disable these verbs from their mail configuration to prevent hackers from exploiting user lists. Gmail and Yahoo are said to have VRFY disabled.
Another option you can try for these servers is emailing the user with a link to confirm their email address. Granted, it is not as sexy as realtime email verification, but it is more secure for all parties.
It is practically not possible to validate email address with growing number of spams.
These days people send a mail to the email address entered by user to complete the registration or activate the account. You can probably do that and is a much safer way to do. You can find a number of resources online to implement this functionality.
Is there a way in PHP to update an email id in a mail server if we have the access details of the mail server. The requirement is as follows.
I am developing a community website which need a provision to upload photos to their photo gallery by sending an email. We planned to create email id for each user so that they could send emails with photo attachments to that id. A cron job will search for emails inside those id's and if it finds a mail with attachment, uploads the file to the server and subject of the email will be considered as the photo caption.
But it has a security loophole such that anyone who knows the email id can send an email and add photo to others account. We are planning to have a security code in their id which can be modified by user if required.
eg. name.XXXX#domain.com where XXXX is a four digit secret code. THe user can change that code whenever required. i.e. the email id can be name.1234#domain.com or name.3452#domain.com according to the user's wish to maintain privacy. So is there a way to edit the email id using PHP functions.
Creating email accounts and/or aliases would certainly be possible with PHP, but it would depend so much on your server setup.
Another route to consider would be to not have any real email boxes, but to instead have all email delivered to a catch-all account and have your cron script search through that one mailbox and compare all recipient addresses against a database, then you don't have to worry about actually creating real email users on the server.
Additionally, in terms of improving security, you could have each user authenticate which sender email addresses are allowed to send emails with photo attachments. It's still not bullet-proof, because sender addresses can be spoofed, but it's an extra step in the right direction.
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.
I'm using AuthSMTP which is a paid SMTP Relay service. They only support a finite amount of "from" email addresses, which must be proper accounts.
This is my first site build and I'm trying to get my head around how to implement email.
When a user registers with the site or forgets their password, I have an 'info' email account which these messages come from. This works.
However, how do I go about the contact form? I want the email to come from the user who filled in the contact box TO the info inbox. I need to be able to reply directly to them.
How can I do this is my server won't allow the email to come "from" the user? if I use the "reply-to" in the headers, what do I put for the "from" field?
put the email address you are logging in with