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NodeMailer is a module for Node.js applications to allow easy email sending. From the same authors also comes NodemailerApp, an application created to help you debug email. NodemailerApp includes local SMTP and POP3 servers, a sendmail replacement, catchall email domain service, AMP4Email renderer […] You can use NodemailerApp to instantly preview emails sent from your …
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multiple attribute
If you set the multiple attribute on an input[type=”email”] you can have it accept several email addresses. Easy.
IMAP API is a self hosted application for accessing IMAP accounts over REST API. IMAP API daemon connects to user’s IMAP account, translates API requests to IMAP and also sends webhooks for changes like new or deleted emails. IMAP API → Via cron.weekly
From the folks at Basecamp, a guide on how/when/why they use chat/face-to-face/e-mail/… when communicating. Below you’ll find a collection of general principles we try to keep in mind at Basecamp when communicating with teammates, within departments, across the company, and with the public. They aren’t requirements, but they serve to create boundaries and shared practices …
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Can I email is like Can I use but specifically for email: which HTML and CSS features are supported by which mail client? They also provide a scoreboard, ranking mail clients based on their support among the 70 HTML and CSS features listed on Can I email. Can I email… Support tables for HTML and …
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Recently James Fisher received an email from Netflix asking him to update his credit card information. “Odd,” I thought, “but OK, I’ll check.” The email is genuinely from netflix.com, so I clicked the link. It logged me in and took me to an “Update your credit or debit card” page, which is genuinely hosted on …
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Clever way, unearthed by Inti de Ceukelaire, to getting access to private communications channels (such as Slack) by leveraging the create-by-email feature of issue trackers/the helpdesk of a company. First target of Init was Gitlab’s Slack channel: Anyone with a valid @gitlab.com e-mail address can join their Slack team. At the same time, GitLab offers …
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var transport = nodemailer.createTransport({ host: ‘mailtrap.io’, port: 2525, auth: { user: ‘your-mailtrap-inbox-username’, pass: ‘your-mailtrap-inbox-pass’ } }); transport.sendMail({ … }); Mailtrap is a fake SMTP server for development teams to test, view and share emails sent from the development and staging environments without spamming real customers. Now this is great for testing: use mailtrap’s SMTP server …
:checked support 😟With a new update about to roll (already rolling?) out, Gmail has added support for – amongst other things – media queries and non-inline styles. Along with that update however, they’ve also axed support for :checked: Also gone is the support for :checked selectors. The only pseudo-class selector supported in Gmail and G Suite webmail …
Typically, emails are coded starting with an old school, table based desktop version, with mobile styles applied through a max-width media query to reflow the tables. In email clients that don’t support this, this approach can result in inconsistent rendering and difficult to read emails. We’re going to flip the formula and start with the …