Category Archives: Email
Links for blackberry’s
A user recently reported an issue with our emails. The issue being that our links weren’t properly coming through on his Blackberry unit, while links from others looked fine. After a bit of digging the issue ended up being that: … Continue reading
Email Signup Usability
One of our biggest goals at Seeking Alpha is to make it convenient to receive our content via email. A big part of that happens right up front – letting you know it’s available – showing you why you want … Continue reading
Be Proactive About Tarpitting
After a grueling 48 hours of attempting to get back in Google’s good graces regarding email to their domain we are ‘on the way’ to being whitelisted. The process was aggravating, frustrating, and in the end I learned an important … Continue reading
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Receiving Email with ActionMailer
This really was a snap. A nice and simple testing recipe (#68) demonstrates how to read in an email from a fixture in just a few lines and pass them to your processing method (MailReceiver.receive in this case). def read_fixture(action) … Continue reading
Filed under Email, rails, Ruby, Test Driven Development (TDD)
Email Formatting
I’m working on-and-off on an application to send financial web content direct to your email inbox. Over the next couple years we’re going to see a very large conversion as the incredible convenience of rss is generally accepted (and not … Continue reading
