If you are a social media website developer , sometimes you might search for grabbing contacts from a particular email account if the password is given. I also did the same.  In most of the cases it did not work properly. But recently i got a contact grabber from phpclasses.org which works perfectly on Gmail, Hotmail, Rediff, Yahoo, Orkut, MySpace, Indiatimes, Linkedin , AOL and lycos

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But the zip file i got is not well arranged, so it shows some errors . I arranged it in proper way and uploaded here:

Download:

http://sajithmr.com/downloads/grabber.zip

(Under GNU Public License)

Using this php code , you can export the email contacts as csv file.

Here is the actual source website : http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/3895.html

Tags: access, AOL, code, contact, download, email, fetch, get, gmail, grab, grabber, Hotmail, Indiatimes, Linkedin, lycos, MySpace, orkut, password, php, Rediff, yahoo

You know google trends (http://www.google.com/trends)  shows recent trends in keyword searching on google. If you want to add a watch or alert for a particular keyword when it comes in google trends, use my latest google services  Trend-Tracker in GoogleNeedle.com

What you have to do is just enter your keyword to watch and your email address for the alert. GoogleNeedle sends  a verification email to your email address. Just click on the verification url for activating Google Trends Alert

Enjoy with Other Google Services [youtube video download, page rank checker, google keyword indexing checker] >

www.googleneedle.com

Tags: , alert, email, google, keyword, needle, services, trend, trends, watch

If you know this feature already , skip this article. But i have to ask a single question at the end of this section .

For wordpress version less than 2.3 , Go to Options  >  writing, and  for greater than 2.3, Go to settings > writing

What you have to do is create an email account with pop3 support

You can see the heading “Post via e-mail” there.

Enter your email server (by replacing mail.example.com)

Enter your pop3 port. (110 by default)

Enter your email login and password.

Choose a category to for the email entry posts

Finally Press update option Button

What you have done above is only the settings. For grabbing or pulling the content from email, you need to call/trigger an url.

That url is: http://yourblogdomain/wordpressinstalldir/wp-mail.php

Either you can call it manually. Or you can set up a cron job for that url by call the url using wget or like functions

Another simple mechanism to call this email trigger is use a hidden iframe in your blog template. (anywhere)

<iframe width=”0″ height=”0″  style=”display:none”  src=”http://yourblogdomain/wordpressinstalldir/wp-mail.php“></iframe>

The problem with this email posting is , it strips all the html tags before entering into wordpress database.

The is no way to find the attachments from an email.

So I decided to start a wordpress plugin which does the above missing properties. If there is any ‘working’ plugin available, please let me know, so that  I can avoid the re-inventing of wheel .

Thanks

Sajith M.R

Tags: , attachement, auto, cron, email, plugin, post, trigger, wordpress

I am writing this topic in sajithmr.com, because i am getting a lot of queries regarding this project from the place I submitted , ProjectGuidance.com , 3 years back. It was a new Webmail Service Idea Developed in JSP . Here is the link. http://www.projectguidance.com/guidance/details/id/36676649 .

There are more than 400 replies and most of its content is “please send me the project report to my email address”.

jMail++ is a webmail written in JSP. You can create new Account here like yahoo, gmail etc…The Session is handled by Single page Auto Invalidate Method..That will increase Your Mail Security. A simple 4 entry Registration process is required.. And your Password will be handle using RSA Encryption method…There is a Fast Search Mechanism included with Google APIs. The Very Important and Unique Feature is You can Check Your Rediff, Hotmail , Gmail account from this Webmail without login into the respective sites. It means this Webpage act as an Email Client Also (Like OutLook Express). The Protocols (SMTP,POP3) all are implement from Scrach without any API’s…Its is a Pure JSP Project.

This was the post on ProjectGuidance.com

Here i included the full project report as zip file.

Jmail-Project-Report.zip

See screen short of this project:

(Screenshot 1)

(Screen shot 2)

Tags: email, google, google api, jmail, jsp, pop3, project, report, smtp, source code

Todo Reminder is a Mozilla Plugin, which can be used to set Reminder for Your Friends for a particular event on a particular date. Your Friend will get Email / SMS alert some days before (Called Heat) that event. So you never forgot a particular event / ToDo.

For example, when you composing an Email to your friends for your College Get together on March 21. While composing mail you can simple add a reminder to all of your friends by a single mouse Click, so that all of your friends get reminder emails / sms on that day.

You can Download the Plugin here

Here is the screen short of composing an Email in Gmail:

Before Sending this mail, Select all email addresses and right click :

(You can select any set of emails from any web page and can add reminder like this)

Launching the TodoReminder Plugin:

Here you can see all of your selected emails, you can put a Subject for your Reminder, Date of Event, and How many days before the alert to be provided (Lets call it HEAT). If Date is March 21 and 3 is the HEAT, then your friends will get alert email from 18th March to 21 March.

See the window after setting the Reminder

Enough, Your Friends automatically gets Reminder Emails along with your email. He can Accept or Reject your reminder.

The screen shot of the email your friend gets:

When he clicks the Reminder Activation link, A Confirmation window will pop up , and he can Accept or Reject the reminder and also can Edit the HEAT (How many days before the alert to be started)

Screen shot of Confirmation Popup:

Download the plugin Now

For more, go to TodoReminder Online Service : http://remind.olph.in

Tags: dolphin, email, heat, mozilla, plugin, remind.olph.in, reminder, todo, todo reminder

Sometimes you get some email forward contains:

1) Please forward this mail to your friends. 4.5 Month old child needs help. Don’t spend money – just forward this email to all your contacts – you will help her by contributing 10 cents for each email you send.

2) Do you want to know your girl friend’s name? Just forward this mail and press Shift + Ctrl + P (or some key combinations). Your girlfriend’s name will appear on screen.

3) Forward this mail to at least 10 people and you will hear good news you were waiting for with in a week!!

4) Mail from Yahoo (or MSN etc): your account will be removed if you don’t forward this message to everyone.

5) Forward this email to maximum people. When it reaches 1000 , everybody will get 100$ each.

These all are email frauds. Never respond or forward such emails. Either delete to or mark it as Spam. Or at least do nothing !!!

This process is otherwise called Mail Chaining or Chain Letter.
Aim of the Sender(The one who started this mail thread first) will be one of below :

1) Advertisement: When you close watch each email (The Chain Letter), you can see some links, either it is ads or some fraud sites links. While forwarding among 100 people, at least 25 people will click on that link and visit their site.

2) Email Spamming: Some mails contain some reply email address by mentioning it as “reply to this email if you want to know more”. Just look on your FORWARD, you can see more than 500 email addresses of knowns and unknowns.

What will happen if you reply the mail, all this mail address are simply forwarded to the email creator. Who will use these email collections for further spamming !!! TRAPPED right ?

3) Signatures: Not only their email addresses, if you reply to the sender with this Forwarded Mail he can collect a lots of Email Signatures, which is created by each forward. Then not just your email even your personal info also gets back to the creator. TRAPPED Again ???

4) Money Making : The mail such as forward 1000 people and get 100$ each is another mode of fraud. If you enquire or ask for money to the initial sender, he will say – “Okay, you will get money send us your credit card details etc.”
Or they will say, “for transacting this money, you have to give as $2 for transaction charges, so that we can transfer 1000$ to you”. You can only dream your 1000$, and it never will get. TRAPPED AT LAST ?

So Discard these fraud email forwards. Remember one thing, “There is no Free Lunch”.

Tags: chaining, chaining letter, dollar, email, email fraud, featured, forward, fraud, letter chain, money