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Re: Email Markup in Gmail

#91

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you should be able to get it to work without approval sending to @X.com from @X.com iirc.

I think it's only Y@X.tld to Y@X.tld that works without applying.

That could explain it, I was using a special mailer account @mytld within the same gapps org

Re: Email Markup in Gmail

#92

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I can still chat with Google users via Adium. I suppose if they're not using XMPP they're doing something else, but if Adium supports it, it's probably in libpurple, which means Pidgin and other OSS clients can do it too.

Then why change it? Why the treadmill? Why send the rest of the ecosystem scurrying about, chasing their tails? And if the ecosystem gets the rug abruptly pulled out from under it one time, then how many more times will their efforts get trashed? Probably as many times as is necessary to shake them loose. No announcements, no roadmap, no communication channel, just a sudden upgrade and everything starts timing out, o…

Which ecosystem? There hasn't been a large, open XMPP ecosystem for quite a while...

Re: Email Markup in Gmail

#93

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ProtonMail may not be the best choice if you're a stickler for standards. Their service unapologetically works only within ProtonMail. Send an e-mail to someone with a different provider and they get a link to a https view of the email.

Thanks, though I set it up yesterday mostly for receiving, I don't plan to send anything from it Is there another email provider that isn't hotmail, gmail or yahoo mail with good prospects at the moment?

pobox.com has also been around a good long while; as low as $20 a year for forwarding, and $50/year for a mailbox.

FastMail on the other hand is a closer equivalent to Google, supporting caldav and carddav for Calendars and Contacts; although as a downside you'll have to configure 3 accounts on iOS to get Mail/Contacts/Calendars via IMAP/CardDav/CalDav if I'm not mistaken.

Re: Email Markup in Gmail

#94

FWIW, this has been around for a long while now. I like being able to do things like confirm a sign up to a service, close support tickets, get shipping ETAs etc. with just one click on the global Inbox view rather than having to open an email up. Looking to incorporate these into our own SaaS apps too, as soon as I get some spare time. I think this is a step in the right direction to reduce Inbox fatigue. Here's hop…

That's why they have an approval process for these features. It would be really terrible if phishing attacks could exploit "track package" or "check-in for flight" buttons.

Re: Email Markup in Gmail

#96

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I'm disappointed this restriction is still in place (though I understand _why_). My SaaS sends emails on behalf of our customers (using their From address). Individually they don't send 100 email per day to Gmail, but in aggregate our platform does.

How do you send it on their behalf, the on-behalf-of header or do you relay through their SMTP servers with their credentials?

Using headers. We use Mailgun for delivery (and provide docs on configuring SPF records).

Re: Email Markup in Gmail

#97
> Answers in Search

It will be fun to see private emails poping up in the search when someone is sitting there with you while you do your search who should not have access to those emails.

Re: Email Markup in Gmail

#98
To bad it won't work for sending invites to friends for group hikes, with a map, etc.

That said, I tend to only use gmail for travel related email so reservations get into my calendar. For everything else I try to use my own domain on FastMail, or sometimes ProtonMail.

Re: Email Markup in Gmail

#99

To bad it won't work for sending invites to friends for group hikes, with a map, etc. That said, I tend to only use gmail for travel related email so reservations get into my calendar. For everything else I try to use my own domain on FastMail, or sometimes ProtonMail.

I think it is possible to achieve what you want (hiking invites). It may mean writing a small web service (AWS Lambda?) which can respond to the call to action in the script.

Not so practical for a one off event, but if you were doing this all the time, you could build a service that offered this sort of facility to the masses.

Re: Email Markup in Gmail

#100
Oooooh, so that's how this[1] works! Wondered what sort of infrastructure was surrounding that, now I have a general idea.

Cool.

[1]: http://i.imgur.com/NGqqwad.png

NB, I can't see anything that specifically provides exactly this type of button in the API, and arbitrary buttons are sadly unlikely to be made available. [EDIT: Actually you can - see comment]

(Did anyone notice imgur being unable to upload earlier? It was 503ing out a few hours ago when I first went to post this comment.)

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