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The client has a large volume of content namely stock market news for different companies. The client site is integrated with multiple third-party systems where real-time news articles are aggregated via custom API integrations. The information thus received is sent as the content of the bulk subscription emails for the different users real-time, daily, and weekly. The issue or the problem was with the emails sent to users who are subscribed to a watch-list. A watch-list is a set of companies that the user is interested in so that emails will be sent in constant intervals (daily or weekly) with the news of these companies. These watch-list emails could contain hundreds of content titles and other data. But the issue was Gmail clip’s emails that have size in excess of 102 Kb.
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This article covers, how to send email programmatically in your Drupal 8 site. There are two main steps to send an email using Drupal 8. First we need to implement hook_mail() to define email templates and the second step is to use the mail manager to send emails using these templates. Let's see an example for sending an email from the custom module, also the following name spaces.
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This article covers, how to send email programmatically in your Drupal 8 site. There are two main steps to send an email using Drupal 8. First we need to implement hook_mail() to define email templates and the second step is to use the mail manager to send emails using these templates. Let's see an example for sending an email from the custom module, also the following name spaces.
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Most of us know how to send an e-mail with attachment. But do you know how you can do this using drupal 7? Not sure, then read on. In this article, I am going to address 2 isssues. Sending an e-mail with an attachment. Sending an e-mail with multiple attachments. Sending an e-mail in Drupal 7 with an attachment The steps to be followed are: Step 1: Install and enable the modules MIME mail and Mail system. Step 2: Define hook_mail() in your custom module. The synatx is as follows:
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One of our Drupal clients had reported that the emails from the Google Apps mail accounts on their Drupal site were going into the spam folder of the recipients inbox. When we analyzed the situation we noticed that the SPF records for the domain were not set correctly. Read on to know how to add a SPF record through WHM to prevent mails from of your domain from going to the spam folder.
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Replying to comments is an extremely good practice for bringing recurring traffic to your Drupal website as you are interacting with your visitors. If you can send those new comments to an email address, you can respond to them quicker since a late reply usually goes unnoticed. Normally in a Drupal 6 website, the admin user has to login to the website and moderate the comments which often leads to a significant delay in response time. Check out our instructions on how to send comments to an email address in a Drupal 6 website.
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GNU/Linux has grown from being a pet project of a few Free Software enthusiasts to one of the most viable and usable alternatives to proprietary operating systems. It is really amazing to look at this growth and one can but look with awe at the contributions made by countless and sometimes nameless scores of people in the Free Software communities. These communities have been formed over a long period of slow evolution and there are certain rules and manners(some written and some unwritten) that you have to follow to participate in them. Our attempt here is to prepare a list of such rules and manners that will enable a newbie to start participating in communities without embarrassing themselves.