Tag email
Gracious E-Mail Bounce Handling in Django with Postmark
blog post posted 6:25 p.m., Friday 11 June, 2010. When a user signs up on your website with an invalid email address, how do you let them know? In most cases, the bounces go into the inbox of an admin who ignores them, or even worse they don't go into any monitored inbox. Recently I've started using a 3rd party for my email delivery, which has made dealing with bounced emails much easier both for me and my customers. Read on to see how I integrated Postmark's bounce API with Django, and implemented a user-friendly alert on DjangoSites.org when signup emails bounce.
Big business ignoring online enquiries
link posted 6:14 p.m., Wednesday 30 July, 2008. According to a survey done of 460 Australian organisations with over a hundred employees, 59% don't reply within 1 week.
Granted, this survey has been done by a company who specialise in responding to your companies incoming email so it's likely to be a little biased - but my personal experiences certainly reflect their findings.
There is nothing worse than e-mailing a company (either directly or via their website) and not receiving a response. Being an internet-minded person I expect a response within a day or two, which I don't think is overly unreasonable - if they do not wish to respond to e-mails, they should not list an e-mail address on their website.
This is an area that small business seems to excel at - when there's only one or two people at the helm they pride themselves on answering customer queries in a quick and useful manner. Unfortunately the same can't be said for larger companies.
http://www.news.com.au/technology/story/0,25642,24097558-5014239,00.htmlNK2View - View/Delete/Edit Outlook .NK2 AutoComplete Information
link posted 8:09 a.m., Wednesday 30 April, 2008. A very nifty tool to edit Outlook's e-mail address AutoComplete entries. I cannot believe this isn't a feature within outlook itself - until today I've had 7 different e-mail addresses listed for my wife with no way to force Outlook to use only the current one.
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/outlook_nk2_autocomplete.htmlVitamin Features » Ensuring your HTML emails look great and get delivered
link posted 12:17 p.m., Thursday 29 November, 2007. Vitamin Features » Ensuring your HTML emails look great and get delivered
http://www.thinkvitamin.com/features/design/ensuring-your-html-emails-look-great-and-get-deliveredEasy Multi-Part E-Mails with Django
blog post posted 3:30 p.m., Thursday 25 October, 2007. Django provides an easy way to send multi-part text/HTML messages. I've recently built on top of this existing framework to provide an ultra-easy way to send templated HTML and plain-text messages with minimal code duplication.
Premailer — preflight for HTML e-mail — dunae.ca
link posted 9:12 a.m., Wednesday 10 October, 2007. "For the best HTML e-mail delivery results, CSS should be inline. This is a huge pain and a simple newsletter becomes un-managable very quickly. This script is my solution."
http://code.dunae.ca/premailer.web/The Business of Software - UPDATE: Getting filtered as BULK/SPAM/JUNK on yahoo/gmail/hotmai
link posted 2:47 a.m., Friday 5 October, 2007. "The problem was that all emails from my web application were going to the spam/bulk/junk folders on each respective service. These aren't spam emails, these are simply "confirm your email address" emails.
It's been a long process, but with the help of lots of useful tips from other developers I've been able to resolve most of the issues."
http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?biz.5.549659.3