I am working on a simple mail application using JavaMail. My web based mail user agent (MUA) application has the functionality to compose, read, forward, delete, etc mails. Now I want to add a simple functionality that autosaves user's email to a Drafts folder while composing. The user can manually save his/her mail or the application can automatically save to the user's Drafts folder. So, is there a means to achieve this with the help of JavaMail? Or any other better way of achieving this?
Append the message to the Drafts folder. You'll have to figure out how to trigger the append from your application.
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I have a little bit of problem with the authentication on Sitecore website. Basically there is a button on the navbar, and when user clicks on the button, it redirects the same user to Salesforce to log in (Implementation of SSO). Basically I am using Salesforce as a identity provider and Sitecore Website as a service provider. Now I have a question? When user is logged, how can I get the ID of that user.
Do users in Sitecore User Manager have the same ID as the users in Salesforce, or I can just get a email to identify the user?
P.S: Sorry if this is a really stupid question, but I am a begineer when it comes to making Sitecore websites and the SAML SSO. Thank you in advance
Stop with the Sitecore and Salesforce for a second, you'll need to cover some basics and click through the login process manually before you automate it.
You probably are using a "connected app" in Salesforce that includes OAuth2 config (consumer key also known as client id; a secret; a list of scopes telling what this app is allowed to do on behalf of this SF user; a list of allowed urls that can login using this consumer key and secret. Etc.) It might even have something about Canvas Apps at bottom of the page.
Next would be - who's logging in. A core Salesforce user or do you have Partner Community, Customer Community (recently rebranded to "Digital Experiences").
Open incognito window and go to https://openidconnect.herokuapp.com/
For login host leave as is if you have production user or test.salesforce.com if you go from sandbox (you can also use branded urls, mycompany--dev.my.salesforce.com etc). If you have a community user you'll have to change the url to whatever is the community base url, like https://dev-mycompany.cs123.force.com/mycommunity
Don't change anything else, click next, next, next. This will take you through OAuth2 "web server flow" (one of many ways to log in). You type the username/password to SF screen and go back to that herokuapp with "authorisation code". The app has few minutes to swap that code for actual final "access token" and couple other pieces of info. Final step in this wizard calls OpenId "userinfo" - returning some info about the user that logged in. That's where you could pull the email if needed (and if there are extra fields you'd like SF to return in this process that's configurable too)
Close that browser window. Check the "connected app" in SF. Open new incognito window, do same thing but this time put your url, consumer key and secret (you might have to edit the app in SF first to allow callbacks to https://openidconnect.herokuapp.com/callback).
So now you should have rough idea about whole login process. Your sitecore app probably does same thing, receives authorisation code and exchanges it for final token. At that point you have valid SF session ID you could use to call that "userinfo", run queries (if the app allowes API access, check the "scopes") etc.
I doubt the Sitecore developer created it all by hand, you probably have some Spring stuff like spring.security.oauth2.client... My Java days are long gone but if you get better at manual click-click-click through the flow you should be able to follow existing code?
It's a big topic and there are other ways to do it (other OAuth flows, sending info about the current user when you have external page embedded in SF as iframe, you'd need to read about "canvas apps")... but that's best guess based on info you provided. You might want to check some trailhead courses too like https://trailhead.salesforce.com/content/learn/projects/build-a-connected-app-for-api-integration/implement-the-oauth-20-web-server-authentication-flow
https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.api_rest.meta/api_rest/intro_oauth_and_connected_apps.htm
https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.api_streaming.meta/api_streaming/code_sample_auth_oauth.htm (Java but very hand-crafted raw HTTP, probably that Spring security is better)
I have two projects where both of them use same firebase project. My problem is I want forgot password in both of the projects and both of them should point to different url in the respective project. Any help will be appreciated.
What I have achieved?
I have done forgot password for the first project and I get a email with link, for the second project I want email with different link (I am getting same link).
Any help will be appreciated.
There is only one password reset template per Firebase project, so you can't use the built-in template password reset flow to send different emails to different users in a single project. This usually isn't a problem, as the apps in a Firebase project are meant to be part of a single logical application.
If your use-case must use a single Firebase project, have a look at implementing a custom email handler, which is the page that the email links to.
If that is not enough, you can take control of the complete password reset flow yourself. This gives you full control of the emails that are sent, but does mean that you also have to arrange how to send that email and all actions from it yourself. For the actual password change, you'd then typically use the Admin SDK to update the user profile in a trusted environment.
I see you can send emails with uploaded attachments using the Google Gmail API. However, I want the user to be able to preview the email before sending. It looks like there isn't a way to do this?
So essentially would the only solution be to create my own simple email client, then send the email through the API? Or would using the API even be necessary as in that case I could just use the server's native sendmail client to sent out the email with the user's gmail address as the return address.
I guess using the API, the advantage is the email would appear in the user's SENT folder.
Unfortunately, I don't think there's a live preview that's available in a way you intended. As far as I know, Outlook (for reference) doesn't even have it. What they have is to upload the attachments while the mail is still being drafted.
The best I can think of is once the message will be sent, save it as draft at first and retrieve the mail again on the succeeding page. This will look like a preview that you intended. Once done, you can then finally send the drafted email to the receipients.
Is there a way to send mass email and automatically add a calendar reminder the users' calendars? I've found you can export an .ics file and link to that where users can import into their program of choice, but what about something that will do it automatically to any calendar? I've used this article to follow, but nothing for automatically adding to the user's calendar nor do we use that email service.
http://www.whatcounts.com/2013/07/feature-friday-add-calendar-events-in-publicaster-edition/
You can not force someone to automatically download the .ics, as you can imagine, auto downloading anything in email would pose a security risk to the reader.
All you can do is host the .ics (or any file really) on the web and hyperlink to it with a 'Save to Calendar' type linkin your email.
I believe there is no way to do this automatically. One of the important reason is JavaScript is not allowed by most of the email client.
I think the best way to show user a event and make it easy to add to their calendar is generate a .ics file and attach to the email as an attachment. Many email client, like Gmail, will find it and display it as a part of the email.
Here is a reference of .ics file format http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICalendar
I want to create a google app that will let you add a file from a cloud service as an attachment to an email. From reading the google documentations it seems like you can't do anything while the user is creating an email, but the attachments.me app is able to do it. When composing an email, their app will pop up a button next to the regular attachment app letting you select an attachment from the cloud. I am new to working with google apps and I do not understand how attachments.me is able to do this. If anyone has an idea as to how this is possible please let me know, thanks.
To add features to the GMail UI you'd probably have to implement this as a Chrome extension (and/or Firefox or IE extension to support those browsers). In fact, this is apparently how attachments.me does it.
What the extension does is load when you go to gmail.com, identify a place in the UI where it wants to add its button(s), and inject them using JavaScript. You may then want to use JavaScript again to do something like add a link to the text of the email before it gets sent to the media you want to attach from the cloud, or intercept the "Send" button to tell your server to send the message with the cloud attachment included (assuming the user has authorized your server to send as them -- this can have serious security implications)
Beware, modifying complex web app UIs like GMail's using a Chrome extension can be very difficult; GMail may make changes that break your UI or functionality, and they may do it whenever they want, or only to a subset of users, so you'll have to constantly keep up with these changes to fix bugs. All in all I don't recommend it as a way of adding attachments to emails.