Add possibility to send emails from custom email

[zasadnyy]

Now emails are sent from admin's personal email. We need to add possibility to define custom email, e.g. devfest[at]gdg.org.ua

[webknjaz]

As I know, Google SMTP has a restriction. It allows send 400 emails per day. Sometimes we may reach it.

I thought about making smth like a mailing list app on @MrGALL's server. But this requires more investigation.

[MrGALL]

Google Apps allows 500 external emails per day for free accounts: https://support.google.com/a/answer/166852
Most of my site's emails sent via external services not from server directly (to avoid spam issues etc).
Maybe it will be better to use mailing list service rather then mailing list app?

[zasadnyy]

Yes, it would be much better, e.g MailChimp has open API
http://apidocs.mailchimp.com/

[webknjaz]

@MrGALL Probably yes. But I'd prefer to control all the mailing process. Anyway this should be investigated deeper.

Regarding spam, I've asked Konfucius (hurtom.com) about his experience and now I understand better how to avoid it.

[olostan]

Currently email is sent using logged user oauth token. Only "From" field is set in https://github.com/GDG-Ukraine/gdgregform/blob/master/server/card.js#L109
I can easily change it to arbitrary value specified when pressing "Send" button.

@zasadnyy will is solve your issue?

[zasadnyy]

I'm not sure, but we can try

2013/10/24, Valentyn Shybanov notifications@github.com:

Currently email is sent using logged user oauth token. Only "From" field is
set in
https://github.com/GDG-Ukraine/gdgregform/blob/master/server/card.js#L109
I can easily change it to arbitrary value specified when pressing "Send"
button.

@zasadnyy will is solve your issue?

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[olostan]

Google actually allows to send with custom "From" field: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/22370?hl=en
So I've implemented changing of email. But this email should be confirmed in Gmail as alternate email (check "Settings")

So, procedure of adding alternate sender email is described on the link above. After that you can specify it before sending approval/confirmation requests.

@zasadnyy this solution should resolve this issue. If yes, you can close this issue (at least for now)

[webknjaz]

For such emails google changes From header, like:

From: =?UTF-8?B?0KHQstGP0YLQvtGB0LvQsNCyINCh0LjQtNC+0YDQtdC90LrQvg==?= <[handle]@domain.org.ua>

But originator's address is still in headers:

Sender: [name]@domain.org.ua

Also keep in mind that to confirm such additional email everyone must have access to it..

[olostan]

But is there is a big oribken with "Sender" header?

[webknjaz]

It's not a problem, but a feature. However, willing to confirm every single address sucks.