Is there any mechanism in which you can prevent a user from replying to an email message? Here's the use case:
An automated system (C#.net) sends emails to a user. The action of the task
is included in the email message (e.g. RSVP link for "yes" or "no")
Instead of using the buttons/actions in the email, the user replies
to the email.
The email originally sent specifically says that the mailbox in use
is unmonitored. (in bright red box!!!)
The user doesn't actually read the email, and gets pissed off when nobody replies or his RSVP is "lost"
Clearly a user issue. I'm thinking the best recourse might be an automated reply saying the mailbox is unmonitored if a user replies to the e-mail.
Any SMTP conditions/flag which can prevent a user from replying in the first place?
I don't believe there is any setting that you can include in the original email that would stop someone from replying to an email.
If the recipient really wants to reply, they can literally copy-paste the sender's email address into a new email and reply to it that way.
Just wanted to point out that the following hack is not elegant and would result in a bad customer experience. This is the only way I could think of achieving this.
One hack that comes to my mind is that you can try to set MailMessage.ReplyToList property to an invalid email address like - abc#g#g.com. In theory, this will force the customer's email client to reply to the invalid email address instead of the original sender. We can hope that the customer's email client validates that before sending the reply.
I have not tried this myself as I don't have an SMTP server to validate. But if the SMTP server does not validate the ReplyToList value then it should work.
Again this is a super sketchy hack and might not work with all the email clients out there.
You are better off setting up an auto-reply on the mailbox.
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I have a web app that sends emails via smtp on behalf of the user to their customers. I am able to put the user's email in the reply-to of the email and this works for normal email use for the users. In the case the recipient has an auto-responder or the email entered was incorrect email, the auto replies go to the sender not the reply-to. The sender inbox is unmonitored.
The sender email service is using and Office365 account.
What are my options to get the auto replies and returned emails to the reply-to email?
This may be because the autoresponders don't regard their messages as replies, but rather as messages from the email system itself.
Your mail has three or four addresses related to the sender, which generally show up at the recipient as Return-Path, Sender, From and Reply-To. Return-Path is who should get error messages and other messages from the email system itself, Sender and From are the address that should be displayed as having sent the mail and Reply-To is the address to which the addressee's replies should be directed. (Sender and From are only very rarely different these days, but historically Sender might be e.g. a particular member of a team while From is the team's shared address.)
Many autoresponders respond to the address that shows up as Return-Path in the final message (it's also called the envelope from address), so your options are:
use the user's address as envelope from
set up a forwarding scheme so that autoresponses are suitably forwarded
The first is very tricky wrt. DKIM, DMARC etc, so you'll probably find the second one simpler, even though it requires you to filter spam and perhaps more.
I coded a website contact form with mail send and after dozens of research cannot find an answer hoping stackoverflow users can help.
The aspx.cs file signs into the specified gmail configuration to send the email HOWEVER is there a way to set the SENDER as what the user inputs in the email textbox, so instead of recieving the email from myself so when clicking "Reply" on the mailbox its not replying to myself? If that makes sense?
So the sender is not me but the sender is what the user inputs in the mail box and I receive the email FROM the input value rather than myself
From comments:
This is the solution:
set mail.From = new MailAddress(address, display name)
in Gmail, go to Mail Settings >> Accounts and Import.
Add the email account you will use as sender in "Send Mail As". (tick
as Alias)
This is the only way gmail will let you specify the from address.
Setting the From Address requires special configuration/confirmation in Gmail for each From Address (see here), or is otherwise prohibited.
You could create a generic gmail address such as no-reply-yourapp#gmail.com. Then use the ReplyToList property to set the default Reply To email address that the user will use for their reply, to the user input email address, as well as an appropriate Display Name for the sender.
So in theory, for flexibilty use different mail service such as web host provided or outlook etc and set the mail.FROM to the value from the textbox and it will be sent from the address the user has typed? Gmail being extra secure causes confusion. Got it. Thanks guys
I have a form in my asp.net site. when user fills email id text box, I want to make sure whether that email id is valid or invalid(existing or not existing).
Ex: john#gmail.com is valid,
john#xxxyyy.com is not valid.
How to find it whether it is valid or not. please help me. I searched some stack overflow. even though I didn't get.
There is no way to for you to know if an email account actually exists other than to send an email and see what happens. A delivery failure notice might be sent, but that is not guaranteed to be sent, and even if it is, it might not be sent for days depending on how many delivery attempts are made.
You can send a verification email which contains a URL of a web service you control and passes a unique ID. The email owner clicks on the URL and is directed at your web service. You look at the unique ID and now you know the email address exists.
https://emailhunter.co/api/docs#email-verification - is a web service API to check email addresses
try to create an email id in mail server. if exist it will return an existing mail return message.
You could use the built-in Microsoft SmtpClient Class if you know the adress of your SMTP server. The Send Method returns an exception when the delivery fails. Again, this is only a suggestion and perhaps too overwhelming for what you need, but this class is rather useful in C#.
Send one link on that email address with some query string parameters and based on those parameters activate their user profile otherwise not activate..
So based on this methodology, you can verify email address is valid or not.
I am checking the validation for email using regular expression its working fine for me. What if the user give some dummy mailid in the textbox?
How can i check whether the entered mail is valid or not without telling the user to login to that mail and click subscribe link?
Is it possible to check like this..
Thanks in advance
How can i check whether the entered
mail is valid or not without telling
the user to login to that mail and
click subscribe link?
You can not. Point. Thanks to spammers no email server wil lbehave. Some will send you "user doesn ot exist" errors, some will even swallow them.
Plus, legally, youalso have to make sure the subscriber actually OWNS the mailbox, and is not entering someone else email.
The only way which i think is
Send an email to the specified email address , if you don't got a bounced email , email is valid provided by user
Without verifying that the user can actually read email, you can't ensure it's that user's real account.
Many domains accept all mail, and use it for spam analysis on invalid accounts, and a user can easily provide 'real' accounts they don't control. (eg: sales#example.com)
In the new user registration page, how to check whether the email id entered by a user is valid? I want to check the entered email id actually exists before the user submits his information. Please do not give code for checking email id string using regular expression, I want to check whether the entered email id actually exists.
You can not "check" that reliably. You need to "ask", send an email to that address with a secret code that your users must enter on your site, or a link with the secret code that the user must click.
Edit: About the reliably part.
While an SMTP server may respond that a mail address is invalid they usually don't, because that would help spammers identify valid addresses more easily. That would also require your code to talk directly to the SMTP servers responsible for each domain. Usually you send mail though your local SMTP server that does the job of forwarding the mail to the right recipient(s).
What you can do however is at least check that the domain exists by asking your favorite DNS service.
In order to do this, you'd need to telnet to the email provider in order to check if it exists. Hotmail, for one, will not allow you to do this.
You should be using membership system for your ASP.net registration form.
Here is a good article explaining how it all works:
https://web.archive.org/web/20211020202857/http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/articles/120705-1.aspx
Including a page on how to verify email addresses like you describe
The only 100% accurate method is to send it an email and ask the user to click a link in that email to complete registration.
Short of that, there is a falible method of connecting to the mailserver. I'll see if I can find a good article(here you go) and edit this post with a link shortly.
This depends on the email provider. most of the providers block this option to prevent spammers from knowing which address is valid...