Method of exchanging digital messages from an author to one or more recipients.
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Way to list “Contact Us” email address on web site, yet reduce likelihood of spam?
What's a good way to list a "Contact Us" email address on a web site, while reducing the likelihood it will get spammed?
Is putting the email address in an image the best technique, or are there ...
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Why do websites have a contact form? isn't an email address enough?
What's reason behind having a contact form on a website, when a simple e-mail link is enough? Why do so many web sites have contact forms? Is it just a habit?
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Should I set up standard email accounts? What are they?
A long time ago one used to be able to count on domains having addresses like webmaster@example.com, postmaster@example.com, or abuse@example.com ... is this convention dead?
Note: I always try to ...
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How to avoid Hotmail/Live rejections for (legit) large volume eMailing?
While qualifying eMail for Spam, Hotmail/Live checks the historical records of numbers of eMails sent by a sender (FROM, eMail Server, IP, etc.). Some times, perfectly valid bulk eMails that are not ...
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How can I prevent my mail from being classified as spam?
My company sometimes send mail, but it usually goes to "spam" folder in gmail. The email includes only a few sentences, without any links or images. Just plain text. How can I fix this? (Notice that I ...
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Is Email list “cleaning” a legitimate practice?
A client has provided us with an excel spreadsheet of around 10,000 email addresses, names and addresses. They were taken from a CRM used previously.
I've been asked to "clean" up this database - ...
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Emailing all site users
I'm going to be emailing all of my site users to update them on recent developments and remind them to come back to the site. Are there any special precautions I should take. I was going to do this ...
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When email newsletters include Base64 encoded images, do email clients see them immediately?
When I send a newsletter with remote URLs most email clients will ask the user if he wants to load remote resources inside the message.
If I send an email using images with Base64 encoded strings as ...
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Are mailto: links practically deprecated?
I was thinking...
Mailto: links are handled by standalone email clients only.
Most users nowadays use webmail (like GMail).
Webmail can't handle mailto: links.
When a webmail user clicks a mailto: ...
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Is it ok to use uppercase letters in email address?
If I send an email to Hello@Example.com instead of hello@example.com, could there come up any problems with the delivery because of the uppercase letters?
Thanks.
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Is it possible to send an automatic email to the webmaster when a visitors hits a 500 error page?
Is it possible to send an automatic email that includes details about the requested page to the webmaster when a visitors hits a 500 internal server error page?
That way the web master could act ...
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How can I create an SPF record on my 1and1.com hosted domain?
Emails from my domain (hosted at 1and1, and using Google Apps Premier edition) have sporadically been going to recipients' spam folders lately. I did some research, tested, and found out that I do ...
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How Important Is Email?
I'm starting to create a site, and want to run it on a VPS rather than shared for a variety of reasons. This means that, if I were to want email services, I'd need to tackle the non-trivial task of ...
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How can I find out if my domain has been added to email blacklists?
We do a lot of mass emailing of our contacts to promote events, send out newsletters, etc. Some people read and react, some people unsubscribe, but I fear that some might actually mark the email as ...
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Any free service like Google Apps? [closed]
Google Apps offers a good opportunity to host emails externally. Definitely, Google should not be alone in this market, but I've not heard of any other alternative. Is there any other company offering ...
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A method to edit html email templates easily
I'm designing and developing some html email templates for mass mailings. I was asked to provide an easy solution for a non-technical person to edit them safely and easily.
I'm afraid conventional ...
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1answer
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Are send to a friend features in websites obselete?
Often I am asked to create send to a friend forms for websites where a user can enter a few of their friends email addresses to which a URL is forwarded via email.
My question is now that we have so ...
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What kind of redirect (301 or 302) for an email links tracker?
We are developing an email sending application ("à la" Mailchimp). Hyperlinks inserted by our users, in the emails they want to send, are replaced by a tracking URL on our application ...
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Why do some large companies use a different domain for sending emails?
I've received notifications and newsletters from Microsoft and Facebook in the past and noticed that both emails came not from an address such as something@facebook.com or something@microsoft.com.
...
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Why don't websites have contact emails? [duplicate]
I find websites having a contact form which you must put in your own email address. It is frustrating because I would rather send an email my self.
What is the rationale for doing this and not ...
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Plain Text email support: Is it still needed in 2011?
For many years I have been building emails that get sent out by my webapps that are Multi-part with a text part & an email part to allow users of plain text only email clients to default to the ...
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Feasible to send marketing emails as an image?
Is it feasible to send marketing emails entirely as images - apart from a link at the top, giving the option for the recipient to view the email online (in their browser) and one at the footer to ...
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What do big websites do about spam emails to the support department?
My website's support email address is starting to get a lot of spam emails to it, what do big companies do about this?
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Do I have to host my company email with the same company that hosts my website?
Do I have to host my company email with the same company that hosts my website? If not, what are the advantages and disadvantages?
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Getting a lot of postmaster undeliverable notices for non-existent users
I've had my domain (straightpathsql.com) for a few years now. I host my e-mail with Google Accounts for business and have for awhile. ALl of the sudden in the past week I am starting to get a lot of ...
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Legal terms required to email users - is opt in necessary
Creating a new site requiring membership to participate. I don't anticipate emailing members at this time except for password related issues. Perhaps down the road emails will be necessary.
I ...
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Email marketing service with delayed sending?
I would like to dispatch certain emails to users that sign up for my email communications at a fixed timeframe. For example, send email A after 7 days of signing up, email B after 21 days, etc. ...
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Does having Abuse and Postmaster Emails help to stop being treated as SPAM?
I read on some blog (I don't remember the URL) that having abuse@mydomain.com and postmaster@mydomian.com in addition to main email help to prevent our mails from being categorized as spam. Is it ...
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Adding SPF records in GoDaddy
I have the GoDaddy hosting and send mail using the following code:
$to = "demomail@gmail.com";
$subject = "Test mail";
$message = "Hello! This is a simple email message.";
$from = ...
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Why is email HTML stuck in the 90's? [closed]
(disclaimer - I've already tried asking this on StackOverflow, but apparently it was off topic. If the same is true here please let me know and I'll close/delete this question.)
I've spent about a ...
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Email private information appearing in Google Results
I've got a major problem in that emails sent to our clients are showing up in Google's search results. For confidentiality reasons, I can't post those links (for risk that they get indexed here), but ...
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How do I know my email open rate?
I saw some people saying their newsletter has X open-rate. How can I know this thing?
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Is it a good practice to use Gmail, Yahoo Mail & Hotmail addresses for registration?
I am designing a website in which clients should register to use some specific services, and I am trying to prevent temp mails, or mails from personal domain.
The question is that is this a good ...
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SMTP Email volume
My company's application has a bulk email system, all custom built, used by our clients to send emails based on opt-ins. While doing performance monitoring during some particularly large email batch ...
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1answer
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Can I have a webhost with one company and an E-Mail host with another? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I leave mail at the registrar while serving the web from host?
I was wondering if it was possible to use one company (and respective name servers) for email ...
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How to Export Email “Sent” Folder?
A client had her web site and email hosted at "company A". She was switching to "company B" but didn't want to lose her email. I set up a Gmail account, POPed into her webmail account, and pulled the ...
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enable email on Godaddy when using Zerigo on Heroku hosted app
A little recap of what I have done ... and then my questions Q1, Q2 and Q3
1 - I developed a RoR app that I deployed on Heroku.
biowatts.heroku.com
2 - I bought a domain name at GoDaddy:
...
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Webmail with option to change password for email account?
Been testing out different webmail options to use (so far AfterLogic, Horde) And it seems that there is no options to change password for user.
It's really bad thing that i have to go to server and ...
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Good webmail service provider [closed]
Short background:
We are a small webhosting company serving NGOs. We have over 2000 mailboxes on 500 domains. Our biggest problem is the crappy Horde webmail we provide to our customers today. Our ...
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Domain Registration and Hosting Transfer
Domain Registration and Hosting Transfer
I am in a kind of situation here and I need your help. I have a domain (www.myowndomainname.com), which is registered and hosted by a reseller in UK. The ...
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Can I host a website on a different address to the webmail?
I have what is to me an unusual situation.
I have a client for whom I have built a website which I will be hosting, they have been using their domain name for their email addresses for a long period ...
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How to phrase the from field in system generated emails my site sends?
I have a community site that sends emails after certain actions like
1) When someone makes a comment
2) When someone does something called "suggest solution"
3) When someone makes a comment in the ...
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Own SMTP server vs SendGrid/PostmarkApp/CritSend/SMTP.com/etc
Wondering what the benefits are from switching from our own SMTP server to an SMTP service.
They all seem to talk about handling the deliverability issues. However our server is set up with reverse ...
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Sending Bulk Email/Newsletter (20,000 emails) - our SMTP server vs bulk provider, what software, etc
Wishing to send an email to about 20,000 recipients.
Our own SMTP server used for transactional emails I believe is well trusted, we've not heard of deliverability problems, mails go to gmail/yahoo ...
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changing CNAME record, will it affect existing email addresses
I need to forward a domainA to redirect to domainB. I've been doing this via CNAME records but for this situation I need to leave email addresses for domainA intact and unaffected while redirecting ...
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1answer
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Gmail is marking my emails as SPAM - Please help [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How could I prevent my mail from being recognized as spam?
gmail is marking my emails as SPAM
I used the great service: isNOTspam.com to check my email against spam
I ...
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Why is Gmail showing the word 'Unsubscribe' in email subject lines?
I have recently noticed that when I send out e-mail campaigns that Gmail is now including 'Unsubscribe' in the subject along with my actual subject. Is this now a common practice among e-mail ...
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Legitimate emails from web contact form in Joomla website get marked as spam/phishing by Gmail
I'm using a Perfect Web contact form on my Joomla 2.5 website. The contact form emails all the info when a user fills it in and sends it to my Gmail account which in turn forwards it to my office ...
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Changing default date range in Google Analyics?
Is there a way to change the default date range of 31 days in GA? After changing it and clicking apply, only the current report changes? Next time I use GA, 31 days again???
Here is documentation ...
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Mail Hosting That Will Allow Outbound Bulk Mail?
No, I'm not a spammer! I do volunteer work for a non-profit social services agency. They send out daily email with several hundred recipients on each message. Their web hosting company has been ...
