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Questions tagged [email]

Use this tag for questions involving code to send or receive email messages. Posting to ask why the emails you send are marked as spam is off-topic for Stack Overflow. Questions about configuration of mail servers belong on Server Fault.

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What is the maximum length of a valid email address?

What is the maximum length of a valid email address? Is it defined by any standard?
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Can I set subject/content of email using mailto:?

Is it possible to set the subject/content of email when I use mailto:?
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Sending email in .NET through Gmail

Instead of relying on my host to send an email, I was thinking of sending the email messages using my Gmail account. The emails are personalized emails to the bands I play on my show. Is it possible ...
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What characters are allowed in an email address?

I'm not asking about full email validation. I just want to know what are allowed characters in user-name and server parts of email address. This may be oversimplified, maybe email adresses can take ...
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701 votes
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Sending Email in Android using JavaMail API without using the default/built-in app

I am trying to create a mail sending application in Android. If I use: Intent emailIntent = new Intent(android.content.Intent.ACTION_SEND); This will launch the built-in Android application; I'm ...
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41 answers
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Send Email Intent

Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND); intent.setType("text/html"); intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_EMAIL, "[email protected]"); intent.putExtra(Intent....
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625 votes
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C# code to validate email address

What is the most elegant code to validate that a string is a valid email address?
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568 votes
30 answers
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PHP mail function doesn't complete sending of e-mail

<?php $name = $_POST['name']; $email = $_POST['email']; $message = $_POST['message']; $from = 'From: yoursite.com'; $to = '[email protected]'; $subject = 'Customer ...
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554 votes
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How to send emails from my Android application?

I am developing an application in Android. I don't know how to send an email from the application?
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465 votes
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How do you make sure email you send programmatically is not automatically marked as spam?

This is a tricky one and I've always relied on techniques, such as permission-based emails (i.e. only sending to people you have permission to send to) and not using blatantly spamish terminology. Of ...
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427 votes
5 answers
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Are email addresses case sensitive?

I've read that by standard first part of e-mail is case sensitive, however I've tried to send e-mail to [email protected], [email protected] and [email protected] - it has arrived in each case. How do ...
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425 votes
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How to validate an e-mail address in Swift?

Does anyone know how to validate an e-mail address in Swift? I found this code: - (BOOL) validEmail:(NSString*) emailString { if([emailString length]==0){ return NO; } NSString *...
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13 answers
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How to get the Android device's primary e-mail address

How do you get the Android's primary e-mail address (or a list of e-mail addresses)? It's my understanding that on OS 2.0+ there's support for multiple e-mail addresses, but below 2.0 you can only ...
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412 votes
7 answers
472k views

Change email address in Git

I have a project hosted in Git stash (now rebranded as Bitbucket Server). It is built using Jenkins. Now I made a typo while installing my Git locally. Like @ab.example instead of @abc.example After ...
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410 votes
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mailto link with HTML body

I have a couple of mailto links in a HTML document. <a href="mailto:etc..."> Can I insert HTML formatted body in the mailto: part of the href? <a href="mailto:[email protected]?subject=Me&body=...
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