I'm planning to write a web service to automate some task for my Outlook.com email account. I want Outlook.com to send an HTTP request to my endpoint when an email arrives, so that I don't need to poll the server. Does Outlook.com provide such functionality?
That API has been deprecated.
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Outlook provides webhooks via what they call push notifications. You'll find details on this API in the Outlook Push Notifications REST API reference. The capability exists to receive events for a wide variety of resources, including email messages in Outlook.com.
You might also find some useful capabilities for notification of changes to messages with Use the Microsoft Graph API to get change notifications and Keeping messages and mail folders up to date in apps.
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I am trying to have my application use Twilio's SMS API to send a text message to a user's phone when they complete a certain action. What is the general process for doing this in Oracle Apex?
These are just two of a few posts out there on sending SMS from the database.
https://www.jmjcloud.com/blog/sms-messaging-from-oracle-erp-with-ords-and-twillio
https://jeffkemponoracle.com/2016/08/send-sms-mms-and-voice-messages-from-oracle-plsql/
It usually requires something along the lines of
signing up for service
installing a PL/SQL package
enabling database ACL for the relevant host
invoking some PL/SQL to send the SMS
How can I accomplish to send email in Amazon SES with a custom email from for several domains.
For example, I have an application that is used by several clients, and we have a module to send emails. When we send an email it goes with the "amazonses.com domain", but what I want to accomplish is a custom from email for each client, each one has a different domain.
The process for doing this is entirely specific to the current SES configuration steps so its better I provide a link thats regularly updated.
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/DeveloperGuide/mail-from-set.html
The short summary is that you can do this by choosing a FROM option for the emails you are sending from.
Programmatically Setting From
The link above points how how to use the API to programmatically change the FROM value. The link below is directly to the API call for setting from but to accomplish it you'd still need to follow the manual tutorial then replace its steps with equivalent API Calls.
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/APIReference/API_SetIdentityMailFromDomain.html
I hope someone will be able to help me with this since I am new with AWS stuff.
I have a Web App using .NET MVC which will be deployed/hosted in AWS. This is the description of what I would like to achieve:
1- Let's say that the Web App will insert products in a Products Table on SQL Server.
2- When this product is inserted, the system (AWS) will send an email to a Client from a Clients Table on SQL Server.
Is that possible with AWS?
Could I set a trigger in SQL Server and send an email by SES?
Is it better to use SQS?. So the Web App will publish messages in SQS, and then having another app listening and sending those emails, for instance a console app.
I will appreciate any direction or useful link.
Thanks all of you in advance.
The answer to your first question is 'yes'. Yes SQL server can use SES to send emails. Because SQL server can send emails, all you need to do is set it up to use the correct SMTP settings from SES once your account is verified and working with SES.
That said, I would never have my db server send emails, just doesn't seem like the right place to do it; even though you can.
I have developed and support several systems like this, and the usual pattern I use is to have the web application insert a message in an SQS queue that will be used as input to another process to send the email out. When possible I like to include all the details about the email into the SQS message, i.e. from, to, subject and the body - everything the downstream process will need to know to send them out.
In my case I use a windows service running on several EC2 instances in an autoscale group to poll the queue and send the emails out. In most cases, where I was able to store all the emails in the SQS body, the windows service is completely general purpose - it reads an SQS message, composes the email and sends it out. Because all of the details of the email are within the SQS message body, this single SQS queue and the windows service that is processing it, can process emails from a variety of applications because the service doesn't need to contain any business logic specific to the application and has no external dependencies.
As you talk about separation of responsibilities, I can't see anything less indicated to send email than a db server (even if it can do it).Sending emails is a task for your business layer, surely not for the data layer.
Use the web app to trigger the process of sending the emails, than implement it directly into the web app, or separate it with a messaging system (like SNS), with a queue system (like SQS) or whatever else.
I want to send sms to mobile devices using amazon sns in asp.net without creating any topic and subsciption. Can anybody suggest me some helpful material or link. Thanks.
If your goal is simply to send SMS to a mobile number, you may be better off using an api like twilio, you need a topic AND a subscription to use SNS. With twilio you can simply send an SMS to any mobile number you want - there are limits on the quantity you can send within a timeframe, and spamming is prohibited, but assuming that's not your primary goal twilio may be an inexpensive and easy-to-use option for you.
https://www.twilio.com/sms
This is now possible with AWS SNS. When you create a PublishRequest you will see a property for PhoneNumber. Just enter the phone number and publish the message as you normally would.
Important thing to note: the phone number has to be in E.164 format. example: +14155552671
I am trying to write a small program using Qt to send SMS messages to a mobile phone. Something like what Yahoo Messenger provides. You can send SMS messages to mobile phones if mobile service provider is supported. I would like to know what happens behind the scenes after you click "Send". Especially how does the message you send gets transfered from the server at yahoo to mobile service provider's network?
Yahoo would've purchased access to (or run their own) SMS gateway. The exact method of transferring the message from Yahoo->Gateway would depend on the gateway's API. Could be XML, could be a proprietary binary format, could be a simple HTTP POST, etc... The SMS gateway would take care of the details of getting the message into the back-end cellular data network and on to the recipient's provider's system.
The easiest way to do it is to buy credit with a company like SMS Global ( http://www.smsglobal.com/global/en/ ). I don't work for them, but I have used them in the past. You do a simple web request (with your account number), destination phone number and the message. It deducts credits each time you send an SMS. Obviously, you write it in to your business plan to cover the costs of this :)
They also offer services whereby you can receive SMS messages to your own web service.
Obviously, there are many other SMS gateways, but if you look at the site and the API you should have a general idea of how it works.