import addresses from gmail, yahoo, hotmail, aol, etc.
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Hi, We have a website developed in asp.net 2.0, c#, sql server 2005. I need to provide users with a way to import their address books from gmail, yahoo, hotmail, and aol at the least. I searched the net, and found soooo many solutions, most providing code to be integrated with our code, some providing web sites that would do the conversion. Ideally I'd like to connect to some sort of a service where we would provide the service the user's email and password, and would get back a comma separated list of address info from their address books. The solutions on the net cost anywhere from $0-$500, and I could not find any rating as to how well the solution would work. So its hard to go with any of them, and know that they'll work well now, and continue to work in the long term, as in they'll keep adding more facilities to import from, continue to support any changes needed to current solution such as when gmail changes their address book format... Any recommendations will be appreciated. Thanks. Shefali
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Hi, We have a website developed in asp.net 2.0, c#, sql server 2005. I need to provide users with a way to import their address books from gmail, yahoo, hotmail, and aol at the least. I searched the net, and found soooo many solutions, most providing code to be integrated with our code, some providing web sites that would do the conversion. Ideally I'd like to connect to some sort of a service where we would provide the service the user's email and password, and would get back a comma separated list of address info from their address books. The solutions on the net cost anywhere from $0-$500, and I could not find any rating as to how well the solution would work. So its hard to go with any of them, and know that they'll work well now, and continue to work in the long term, as in they'll keep adding more facilities to import from, continue to support any changes needed to current solution such as when gmail changes their address book format... Any recommendations will be appreciated. Thanks. Shefali
hi shefali_sinha, According to me, only user can import a comma separated list of address info from address books. This can be happen on variety of domains such Yahoo, Gmail, Rediff, Aol and etc. These service providers doesn't allow any third party software to access address book of their users and generate a comma separated list from it. Even if you know User Name And password then also Domain host doesn't provide access to any information of user using Software. You can access any user account using it's User id and password and generate a comma separated list from it but only manually. There is no such (Tool)software which automatically feed user id and password and make login to domain name. These domain host keep track of such things and mark as a Spam. So, it is better to generate a comma separated list of address info from address books after that you can use such list to your software. You can read list easily. Also all these people on the internet talking about providing such facility is fake. If such things are possible then there is no security on the email and no secure HTTP's. Hope this will help you. Dilip Kumar Vishwakarma
Programmer .Net Consulting
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hi shefali_sinha, According to me, only user can import a comma separated list of address info from address books. This can be happen on variety of domains such Yahoo, Gmail, Rediff, Aol and etc. These service providers doesn't allow any third party software to access address book of their users and generate a comma separated list from it. Even if you know User Name And password then also Domain host doesn't provide access to any information of user using Software. You can access any user account using it's User id and password and generate a comma separated list from it but only manually. There is no such (Tool)software which automatically feed user id and password and make login to domain name. These domain host keep track of such things and mark as a Spam. So, it is better to generate a comma separated list of address info from address books after that you can use such list to your software. You can read list easily. Also all these people on the internet talking about providing such facility is fake. If such things are possible then there is no security on the email and no secure HTTP's. Hope this will help you. Dilip Kumar Vishwakarma
Programmer .Net Consulting
Dilip, Thanks for your response. Appreciate it. Do you have any idea how LinkedIn and Facebook are importing their user's address books? They have done what I've proposed doing. They've been doing this for a while now (a year or so), and have not been marked as spam. Thanks in advance. Shefali
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hi shefali_sinha, According to me, only user can import a comma separated list of address info from address books. This can be happen on variety of domains such Yahoo, Gmail, Rediff, Aol and etc. These service providers doesn't allow any third party software to access address book of their users and generate a comma separated list from it. Even if you know User Name And password then also Domain host doesn't provide access to any information of user using Software. You can access any user account using it's User id and password and generate a comma separated list from it but only manually. There is no such (Tool)software which automatically feed user id and password and make login to domain name. These domain host keep track of such things and mark as a Spam. So, it is better to generate a comma separated list of address info from address books after that you can use such list to your software. You can read list easily. Also all these people on the internet talking about providing such facility is fake. If such things are possible then there is no security on the email and no secure HTTP's. Hope this will help you. Dilip Kumar Vishwakarma
Programmer .Net Consulting
Hi.. I am also developing an application for same requirement i.e Importing Contacts from Mail Clients .I tried for many solutions but i didn't get any Valuable Solution for me. we have downloaded some code from "ideabubbling" and tried it, but some times it is not working for some account's in rediff,Hotmail,AOL.in will the maildomain's constantly change the session or links which are hardcoded in the downloaded code.If u found any solution please help me..its very Important for me. --Can u provide any Suggestions or Solution for this Problem. ->I am little bit poor in Communication plz excuse if wrongly spell Regards, SukkuReddy