I am trying to make a metro app which involves the user sending out an invitation email to friends. To do this, I am using the mailto:// protocol. However, if I try to include HTML tags in the body section, the Mail app reads them literally and displays raw HTML to the user. Is there any way to get around this?
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I'm currently hunting for an answer to a similar problem, only in my case I also want to embed an image in the body of the email. I have not dug into the code much, but it seems like the Mail app does not handle all the protocols required to attach additional files to the html body. For the simple case though - you should be able to share your html being the share source and invoking the share charm. You are not limiting the user from using other applications as share targets for your html and you probably can't define the subject or recipients, but it's the best I could find.
There is a sample you can check here: "Sharing content source app sample".
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I am working on a custom email webapp for my company. I have browsed the web and can't find an exact answer. Maybe I don't know what to "google" for exactly. I have never done anything email related.
In our database we are saving emails as a string. It contains everything.
<DOCTYPE><head><body><style> etc. How would I go about displaying this in my webapp.
I tried just pasting the HTML in a <div> inside one of my components but the styles would not load properly.
How would I go about reading/parsing the raw HTML in the string to then display it in my webapp. Is there a nuget package anyone recommends.
I am using Blazor on .net core 5.
As you may have found, putting an email HTML body into an existing web page will almost result in CSS pollution as the HTML may have styles (or may use styles from the web page).
My solution to this was to load and display the email HTML inside an <iframe> tag as this isolates the email from the page very effectively. The URL for the IFRAME is separate view on the server, which just returns the raw email HTML (remember to add security to this if needed in your app).
There are probably better ways to do this in CSS now without having to resort to IFRAME.
I am creating a website and there is a page with people that are part of the company. Each person has an email that i want for the user to be able to get the email for the person that he/she want.
If we were in 2011 i would have used mailto: html tag. But really not so many people are using desktop email clients.
I thought about linking to a link so a new window would open in gmail and a new message would be created with recepient the pressed email. BUT not everyone uses gmail.
The only posible "solution" that i though that when the user clicks on the email this would be copied automatically in the clipboard. It would have the same result as doing CTRL & C at something. BUT this requires a lot of time and i dont want to get my hands dirty with javascript.
Is there any other way to do this ?
You should probably still use mailto:. mailto: is not intended for just desktops, it identifies a handler for the client. A mobile device would be able to recognize it just as well, and launch its preferred MTU.
With a lot of addons like smartaddon contact form and foxyform available out there, you could add them to your html code.
But, if you could use php, it to would just take few statements of code to set up the contact form on your own. Refer this post which explains clearly on how to set up your contact form using php.
I won't bore everyone reading this post with the entire background story of why I need to do this. However, I am looking to load the Google Compose Mail page in the HTML form loaded inside a Google Sheet I have created.
I know the link for the Compose email is https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&to=TO&su=SUBJECT&body=BODY
But I don't know if it is possible to have this link loaded as a view in the HTML service Form.
Does anyone know if this is possible and if so, how to do it?
I could always have a button to load the link in a separate tab... but I would like to have this all kept on screen to be more "professional" looking.
I was looking for an option to add an iframe or free code, but option exists. I recommend inserting a form if you are looking for a way to get data from users.
Its under "Insert", then "Form..."
Good Luck
So,
Imagine that I have this link:
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How do you deal with people that visit your site and don't have any email handler? What are the possible solutions? Like showing the email, for example? Any other solutions?
Thanks
EDIT: This solution requires you putting the email in between the anchor links. Why would you not?
I would not worry about it. Most browsers (all modern ones) would allow a user to right click and copy the email to their clipboard in the worst case. Its not such a mission critical feature that I would worry about it. If they do click it, I believe the browser will ask the user what mail client they would like to associatemailto links to.
The only other choice would to allow them to fill out a form that your mail server will generate into an email and then send to the appropriate recipients.
On mouse over it could show a tool tip above the link with the email?
If you don't want to be dependant on client settings, you ll need to provide the service server side. Meaning allow ppl to send an email from your site using some simple text box and a SMTP plugin.
You might find this question helpful: Has anyone ever come up with a way to detect the email program a recipient is using?
Essentially, there's no possible way to check if there's an outside program to handle email, so short of writing a submission forum that automatically sends the email to the intended recipient, there's probably not much you can do.
I want to build a chrome extension like rapportive.com. I'm new to Chrome extensions and Gmail Content Script. Can any one please suggest how to go about this?
Currently I'm reading Google's Gadget docs.
Here are some notes to get you started. There are more robust ways to build this, but this is the "hello world" of the functionality you are talking about:
You will need to define a content script that you add to the context of gmail. This part is pretty easy and can work with any of the content script examples available in the Google's documentation. You should read and learn about what it means to be a content script.
The content script will need to know where to look inside gmail for an email address. This address will be used to grab the social media information on the user. You message this email address from the content script to the extension's background page.
The background page will need to have social media integration that the user pre-configured. Basically, you need to plug the background page into Facebook's/Twitter's/LinkedIn's APIs and use their APIs to collect information about the email address.
The background page will then message the content script you added to gmail with the social media details for the email address
The content script then modifies gmail's user interface to contain your social media details.
The greatest long-term challenge you will face is that gmail's layout will change unexpectedly and break email discovery or the modified UI. Both issues either require some cleverness to solve, or will require you to stay up at night wondering whether Google will suddenly break your extension.
Good luck!
I don't know what google gadget is and link you provided gives 404 but I don't think you even need this.
What you need is a content script that is injected into gmail page where it adds a panel. So, start with reading about how to create a Chrome extension that is using content scripts.
There is a new SDK for modifying the DOM elements in gmail: https://www.inboxsdk.com/docs/
They have a useful API for adding buttons and other elements.