I've noticed something that is a little strange with TeamViewer. If someone has a TeamViewer account, he/she can add a partner by using an ID only, and then always see that partner's status, meaning whether the computer is online or offline.
I haven't figured TeamViewer's security model, so I am wondering how could someone prevent that.
For example, let's say I am running TeamViewer and I gave someone my ID. We did a session once and it's over. My password was changed and the partner can no longer connect to my computer. However, my ID remains the same. Thus, the partner can always watch my status, when my computer is online and when offline. Isn't there a way to prevent that?
I just had the same problem and found a way by browsing through the options. You should select Extras>Options, then Advanced, click on Show advanced options, then tick the field "Hide online status for this TeamViewer ID" in the subsection: "Advanced settings for Computers and Contacts".
This way, you can still connect to your computer, but it will be displayed as offline to users having your ID.
Hope this helps.
Simply go to Extras > Options > Computers & Contacts and tick the checkbox "Only partners in my list may see my online status and send messages to me".
Then only the contacts you've added to your Computers & Contacts list will be able to see your online status (and send messages to you).
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This existing question https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/18959/can-i-form-a-direct-url-to-a-particular-gmail-account is close to what I need, except that I don't want to go into Gmail since email is disabled for the institutional account I am using. I want to log into some Google App - ideally Google Classroom, second choice Google Drive - but I'll take any alternative to Gmail if it shows it can be done (sorry I don't have a full list of enabled Apps for my institutional account).
This suggestion from Eivind Eklund works when Gmail is available
https://accounts.google.com/ServiceLogin?service=mail&passive=true&Email=example#domain.com&continue=https://mail.google.com/mail/u/example#domain.com/
by which I mean it gets me into my Gmail with my personal account, and with my institutional account I get "We are sorry, but you do not have access to Email. Please contact your Organisation Administrator for access."
So, is there a URL that I can pre-populate with an account to get into a service other than Gmail? I thought perhaps if I changed service=mail to service=drive, and Email= to Account= then it might work, but this produces "The requested URL was not found on this server. That’s all we know." I could be guessing all day - I can find no documentation of what the alternative parameters might be. Can it be done?
D'oh! My colleague suggested "well let's give service=classroom a try". We then went into a particular class and copied the query string, so we can now generate direct URLs for each student (who likely won't know their ID) per class
https://accounts.google.com/ServiceLogin?service=classroom&passive=true&Email=MY_INSTITUTIONAL_ID&continue=https://classroom.google.com/c/Mzk3MTAzNzk2MDVa
I am running into a strange error with email link verification on Firebase. When users create an account, I send them the following email and wait for them to verify before continuing normal application flow:
Hello %DISPLAY_NAME%,
Follow this link to verify your email address.
https://project-projectname.firebaseapp.com/__/auth/action?mode=<action>&oobCode=<code>
If you didn’t ask to verify this address, you can ignore this email.
Thanks,
Your ProjectName team
(modified slightly to take out the project name)
This email successfully sends, but when a user clicks on the link in the email they get something to the effect of:
Which is weird because the link is the default HTTPS link that Firebase gave me to verify email addresses with.
No user can pass beyond this point, and I have tried multiple browsers, multiple devices, multiple email addresses and nobody can verify their email. I have searched everywhere and cannot find anyone with the same issue, so it's very possible I am overlooking something very obvious.
I should note that they used to be able to verify their email successfully - about a week ago it stopped working.
Any help would be appreciated! Thanks!
Update: I have found a "solution" to this issue!
For reasons I cannot understand, the email verification links will not work on my home WiFi, but if I try the same links using mobile data it works the way it should.
If you are having this error, try using a different form of internet connection and it will probably work!
However, I do not understand why this is the case because my home WiFi has no special Firewalls up or anything out of the ordinary. If someone could explain why this might be happening I would love to know. I will contact Firebase so they at least know that this is happening to some users.
Thanks for the help #Frank van Puffelen
I made a mobile app and used Firebase for backend and authentication. When I use firebase's built in email verification, the email always goes to the junk folder / spam.
Does anyone know how to fix this?
That's weird. Firebase made restrictions to avoid this problem. Check here
Spam filters normally look for these things:
Subject Line: looking for common words and phrases associated with spam.
Content: looking for suspicious links, low text to image ratios, and other spammy hallmarks.
Metadata: looking at the To/From/CC fields, the sender’s domain, and embedded code.
IP address: looking for IPs that have been flagged frequently as spam by both filters and recipients in the past.
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Ill suggest using your own domain to send emails. You can check this article on how to do this. You will also get the extra benefit of looking more professional.
Hope it helps :)
Have a look at the headers of the received email message. Typically, Antispam tools use headers to add the detail of the scoring elements that lead to the message being flagged as spam. This will give you insights on why this happens since reasons can be multiple and cumulative (Title, content, DNS, DKIM, etc.)
I had the same exact problem,
The problem is that your sender name is noreply#project.firebaseapp.com
and that made all my emails going to spam.
What I did was to visit my console
https://console.firebase.google.com/project/project_name/authentication/emails
which is the template tab of the Authentication page.
Click on the pencil icon and click on the Customize Domain
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Add and verify your domain.
That will solve the problem
I fixed this issue by only changing the project name.
Go to your firebase project > Project Settings > Main page.
There you'll see some public settings, change the name of your project, the default will show something like "project-(yourProjectId)", put for example "Project Name".
I have an asp.net autoresponder that sends emails to millions of subscribers. I want to track if a person mark my emails as spam. is there any way to do this?
Thanks in advance.
No, there isn't. After your mail has been sent to your receiver's SMTP server, there's no way to track it down anymore.
I know what you're thinking: how can some mail-clients track down wether an email has been read or not (e.g. in Outlook). They can do this by adding a little img-tag to their mails (html). When a user opens the mail, it'll open the path specified in the img's src-attribute. Since that's a script (like PHP or something), it can automatically sets a flag to 'seen' when a mail has been opened.
Of course, there are some other ways to track this down, but I think this is the most popular one.
However, this can't be done to check whether a mail has been rejected, deleted or moved to the spam-folder.
I would recommend http://www.mxtoolbox.com/ as an example of sites to use for checking if your server/sending IP is blacklisted.
You can also sign up for feedback loop services with major or relevant email providers for your list(s) to be informed when messages are reported as spam. Feedback loops are probably the best mechanism for the information you are trying to gather.
Example of a feedback loop and how to subscribe to it:
http://postmaster.aol.com/Postmaster.FeedbackLoop.php
I can't post more than 2 links but if you Google "feedback loop" and the name of the email provider you are likely to find what you need to sign up for their alerts.
Hope that helps.
Is it possible to access a mobile users phone contacts from a web page? The company I work for would like to use QR codes to direct people to a coupon on their website and then give viewers the option of sending the url to their friends in a text message.
Obviously this would be an opt in service. Perhaps you would need to build a mobile application to accomplish the task? If anyone has an idea on how to accomplish this or something similar please let me know.
As far as I know, it is not possible to access the contact database via a web page, on any of the major platforms; in order to access this data, a native application is required.
Nate is right.
The only thing that you can do (that won't accomplish everything you need) is encode SMS message in QR code (e.g. "sms:number:subject" see http://code.google.com/p/zxing/wiki/BarcodeContents), this way your company will get user's phone number as part of SMS message, but not numbers of his/her friends.
An API for accessing contacts is being built into the WebApi by Mozilla but as of today it's not enabled by default and I expect cross browser support is still far off.