Is there an open source project that deals with basic reporting functionality for Mailgun. All I want to do is download my permanent failures and export to a human readable file. Mailgun has an API that I can write code for that but I would like to avoid reinventing the wheel.
See github.com/kehers/suet (disclaimer: I built this). It gives you a detailed analytics dashboard and breakdown of email performance, users, mails and feeds. You can also connect Slack and get complaints, bounces and failures send to a channel.
A managed version is available at suet.co
I just started my adventure with the Redmine 3.0, the project manager.
I can't Google out if there is an option to export its calendar to e.g. thunderbird-ligthning. There are some plugins, but they are not compatible with current Redmine 3.0. I couldn't find out anything relevant in the changelog, too.
Can anyone tell me from their own experience, if (and how) this feature is available?
Generally, anything that exports to the ics format can be made available to Thunderbird/Lightning, or any other calendaring program. The other option is to make use of the caldav protocol, which is also standardized.
I have heard reports that this fork of the redmime ics export plugin works for 3.x, but I haven't tested it myself. Maybe you can give it a try.
If you would like to create your own, I'd suggest adapting sabreDAV to use redmime as a backend. As an example for how to write a custom sabre frontend for a different service, check out this work.
Tinkering with iCloud, I found out that it is using some tweaked form of WebDAV to store and sync calendars, contacts and bookmarks. I got some specs on CalDAV and CardDAV searching in Google, but for bookmarks Apple seems to have developed its own BookmarkDAV protocol. Is there any documentation on this protocol available?
No, BookmarkDAV is no standard whatsoever.
I know this may sound like a stupid question, but numerous google searches haven't given me the answer I'm looking for. I see a lot of data on how to format emails based on Sitecore Templates etc, but nothing on actually sending mail. Do I need to do this via .net code, or does Sitecore have a component that manages sending mail?
Take a look at Sitecore.MainUtil.SendMail as a built in function within Sitecore to send email. My understanding is it uses the standard .net mail library, but puts a Sitecore wrapper around it.
It depends on the volume of mail you want to send. If you just want to send simple emails (ie alert emails or 'thank you for registering' type emails then you would just use the normal built-in .NET email functionality.
For more complicated (campaign/mass) emailing there are add-on modules such as the Email Campaign Manager (ECM) - http://sdn.sitecore.net/Products/ECM.aspx or http://www.sitecore.net/unitedkingdom/Resources/brochures/Sitecore%20Email%20Campaign%20Manager
Sitecore provides some example auto-emailer actions in the 'Sample Workflow' that comes with the default Sitecore install too.
The Web forms for Marketers module also has some emailing actions that are included with the package.
Hope this helps :)
You should probably look into system.mail.net. The best reference site for this can be found here:
http://www.systemnetmail.com/
Thanks for all of the replies.
As with other Sitecore issues, I found that Sitecore was not necessary to solve this issue. Standard .Net functionality did what I wanted much easier.
While developing a REST service I want to be able to manually submit some data (e.g. by PUT or POST method) to a specific URL and see the response. The only tool I know is SoapUI, which is not only a commercial product, but a bit overcomplicated while my task is so simple. There is a question about SoapUI alternatives, but all the discussion there is about SOAP services, while what I need is just some REST :-) Any ideas? I know I can write such a tool myself pretty easily, but I'd prefer not to reinvent a bicycle if there is one.
UPDATE: Mark Cidade's answer is ok, but I'd wish the tool could run on Linux too...
UPDATE 2: The solution of my choice came to be HttpRequester Firefox extension.
I have just discovered and installed RESTClient, which is a Firefox add-on (it's ideal for me as I do most development on FF, both on Windows and Linux). No idea if it's any good yet. :)
EDIT: I've started it using extensively since, and it's very good, it really gives back a lot of data about the response and the request.
My favorite is WizTools RESTClient which is written in Java. A nice feature is that it lets you save requests and responses to file if you want to reload them later. It's also cross-platform thanks to Java.
There is yet another free handy application called Postman which will let you do this. It was initially launched as a Chrome plugin and since then is available on the Mac.
I use the Chrome plugin extensively on Windows, Linux and Mac. What I find most useful is the fact that, when signed in, all your requests can be synced across all machines. I use the Mac at the office and when I get home, I pick up where I left of on a Windows machine.
Cross platform insomnia you must test it.
If you use mac then paw another option
Any HTTP request tester will do. Fiddler is a good one.
You can try this online testing tool https://reqbin.com/
For Mac and Linux there is Charles http://www.charlesproxy.com/ but it is not free.
If you need tool, which you can run on Linux, try WebScarab, it is written on Java.
https://restclientgui.codeplex.com
Download it from the downloads section
I'm Only Resting works for me.
I'm quite fond of either Fiddler (if you need to dig into things deeper) or Insomnia (if you're trying to get to grips with a particular REST API).
Fiddler runs on Linux using the Mono runtime. Insomnia provides Linux packages. I like that Insomnia has a scaffolding generator for the most popular languages, so when you made a particular REST API call work in Insomnia, you can generate code for many languages from that. Neat!
Telerik now has a new standalone software to test API's: Telerik Test Studio for APIs
http://www.telerik.com/download/teststudio-apis
If you are just looking for a lite rest client and have tried all the others here and did not like them!
I finally rested on Restlet a Chrome plugin.
It is commercial software, but "appears" to be free to use if you are only making requests, which is all I need now.
I may try the trial in the future.
cURL is free and runs on almost everything.