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SmtpClient: A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time

The following code works for me. Your code was giving me errors, I believe it was due to not setting the port to 587. http://forums.asp.net/t/1250771.aspx/4/10 MailMessage mail = new MailMessage(); mail.To.Add(to); mail.From = new MailAddress(from); mail.Subject = subject; mail.Body = body; mail.IsBodyHtml = true; SmtpClient smtp = new SmtpClient(“smtp.gmail.com”,587); smtp.EnableSsl = true; smtp.UseDefaultCredentials = false; … Read more

How can you send mail using IMAP?

IMAP is a mailbox protocol. It does not (natively) support sending mail, only accessing it. In order to send mail you must use SMTP. Its possible that there is an IMAP extension for sending mail, and its possible that Google Mail supports that extension, but I doubt it. Hence, if you want to send an … Read more

Flex / Grid properties are deleted in gmail email

Designing HTML e-mails is not like designing HTML websites. There’s a huge technology gap between e-mail clients and web browsers. It’s as if browsers keep evolving, but e-mail clients are stuck in 1998. In the world of HTML e-mail, embedded and external styles are bad, CSS3 is bad, JavaScript is bad, while.. inline styles and … Read more

How to open mailto links in new tab for users that have gmail as the default mail handler?

Okay, so I was able to get this working in Chrome on Mac. Your mileage may vary. Also, this is pretty hacky IMO, so it may not be worth it. Honestly this should exist as a setting within Chrome, and the behavior should be delegated to the website. E.g. Chrome should have an option: “[x] … Read more

Android EditText Gmail like to field

This technique — referred to as “chips” — is discussed by Roman Nurik in a Google+ post. He, in turn, points to Macarse’s answer here on StackOverflow. They, in turn, point to the implementation of this UI that you see in the stock messaging client.

HTML email in Gmail – CSS style attribute removed

As someone who regularly codes emails for marketing campaigns at my job, I feel your pain. Gmail, along with many other email clients, can be a bit funky to code for. For one, it strips out any CSS that’s outside the body. So putting in things like media queries and document level styles don’t work. … Read more

SVG images blocked by gmail proxy

I’ve heard back from Google support, and they’ve confirmed there are currently no plans to support SVG images in the proxy. They said they account for only 1 in 100,000 email images. Apart from PhantomJs, an option for simpler svg is the php plugin ImageMagick. Here’s some sample code to get you started: header(“Content-Type: image/png”); … Read more

How to trigger a Google Apps Script once an email get in the inbox?

After some research and some help from other google-apps-script developers, the best solution is to use a combination of Gmail filtering system in addition to a time-driven-trigger. So basically for a normal Gmail account there is a 1 hour/day computing time as mentioned in the documentation. So what I did is set up a filter … Read more

How to develop Chrome extension for Gmail?

It looks like you haven’t stumbled upon the gmail.js project. It provides a rich API allowing to work with Gmail. However, please note that this project isn’t maintained by Google. This means that any changes in the Gmail may break your extension and there is no guarantee that anyone will care to update gmail.js to … Read more

Google’s Imageless Buttons

— EDIT — I didn’t see the link in the original post. Sorry! Will try and re-write to reflect actual question StopDesign has an excellent post on this here. [edit 20091107] These were released as part of the closure library: see the button demo. Basically the custom buttons he shows are created using a simple … Read more