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For questions relating to implementing email clients, or for code extending or interacting with an existing mail client.

An email client, email reader, or more formally, mail user agent (MUA) is a computer program used to manage a user's email.

The term can refer to any system capable of accessing the user's email mailbox, regardless of it being a mail user agent, a relaying server, or a human typing on a terminal. In addition, a web application that provides message management, composition, and reception functions is sometimes also considered an email client, but more commonly referred to as webmail.

Popular email clients include Microsoft Outlook, Pegasus Mail, Mozilla's Thunderbird, and Apple Inc.'s Mail.

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What is the difference between ports 465 and 587?

These ports 465 and 587 are both used for sending mail (submitting mail) but what is the real difference between them?
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What is the behavior difference between return-path, reply-to and from?

On our mailing application we are sending emails with the following header: FROM: marketing@customer.com TO: subscriber1@domain1.example Return-PATH: bouncemgmt@ourcompany.example The problem that we are facing is that some email servers will…
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What is Data URI support like in major email client software?

Data URIs are a standard way to embed images and other binary data in HTML, and browser support is well documented on the web. (IE8 was the first version of IE to support Data URI, with a max 32 KB size per URI; other major browsers have supported…
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sending mail from Batch file

We have a script to backup files. After the backup operation is over, we would like to send a report as an email notification to some of our email addresses. How could this be done?
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Effective maximum mailto: body lengths

There is a maximum length for the text in the &body section of a mailto: link. According to one of my co-workers, the W3C publish the limit as 256 (I don't have a link to back this up, though). We're embedding mailto: links in both an e-mail and a…
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How do I remove link underlining in my HTML email?

BOOK NOW I used this code to make a link in my HTML email. In…
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HTML email link color dilemma

I designed an HTML email and I am having the following issues: First my entire design is based on a blue color so any blue text will not be readable by the reader/user, text has to be white. GMAIL automatically color phone numbers and links blue but…
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How hard is it to build an Email client? - Python

I'm venturing in unknown territory here... I am trying to work out how hard it could be to implement an Email client using Python: Email retrieval Email sending Email formatting Email rendering Also I'm wondering if all protocols are easy/hard…
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How do you build a web based email client using PHP?

I would like to learn how to build a web-based email client in PHP (similar to yahoo and gmail). Does anyone know how I can get started with this? I would like my system to be able to send and receive email.
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Start Mail-Client with Attachment?

I'm currently searching for a way (in Java) to start the default mail client with defined receiver, subject and body and with a predefined attachment. Due to the limitations of the RFC the java.awt.Desktop.mail-Method is not working with…
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center align email in outlook.com

I have created a very simple html email. http://staging.xhtml-lab.com/mailtest/ It's working fine in all email clients, except in hotmail.com/outlook.com in hotmail email is left aligned, it should remain center aligned. I have added following code…
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PHP Library to read email

I currently use the SwiftMailer library to send email, but unfortunately it's only for sending, not receiving. I'm wondering... is there a similar library to connect via IMAP to an email account and read the email (IE give me the ability to loop…
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Email client support negative margin value?

Please have look the below screenshot I want to positioned the lens in top area.Sadly the position value is not supported by email clients.so what can i do for that.can i use for margin-top value as minus value? hope you can help me..thanks in…
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Do all email clients use "In-Reply-To" field in email header?

When any email is send with a Message-ID header, then any replies to it include In-Reply-To, naming that ID, and References which can name a list of parent message ID's. So email clients can use this information to construct threads when viewing a…
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Do any common email clients pre-fetch links rather than images?

Although I know a lot of email clients will pre-fetch or otherwise cache images. I am unaware of any that pre-fetch regular links like some link Is this a practice done by some emails? If it is, is there a sort of…
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