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: <a href=”http://seekingalpha.com”>SA</a> displayed like this (which is desired on the unit): SA <http://seekingalpha.com> While this: [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Email’
February 22, 2007
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 it – and helping you set things up just the way you like. It’s a [...]
December 14, 2006
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 lesson: Tarpitting is definitely something worth being proactive about. With more subscribers everyday there are [...]
December 6, 2006
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) IO.readlines(“#{FIXTURES_PATH}/mail_receiver/#{action}”) end def test_something email = read_fixture(“junk_mail”).join MailReceiver.receive(email) # assertions end And then a few [...]
July 14, 2006
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 scary) by the masses, but in the meantime this is really a handy service for [...]
