thomasbachem/webmail-linker

Collection of Email Providers' Webmail Sites

Webmail Linker

Collection of Email Providers' Webmail Sites

About

Many websites require an email double opt-in during user registration. This project wants to fix the resulting break in user flow when users have to manually switch to their email providers' website to receive the confirmation email.

With Webmail Linker, you can offer a direct link to the user's webmail interface. In addition to the webmail URL, you'll get the name of the email provider and a favicon URL, so you can offer a button like "Check your email on [name and icon of the provider]".

The list contains 250+ email providers so far.

Languages

The core of this project, the list of email providers, is maintained in JSON. The provided wrapper classes to query the list are very simple – feel free to add libraries for other languages via pull requests.

Usage example (PHP):

$wl = new WebmailLinker();

if($provider = $wl->getProviderByEmailAddress('[email protected]')) {
  $html = '<a href="%s">Check your email at %s</a>';
  printf($html, htmlspecialchars($provider['url']), htmlspecialchars($provider['name']));
}

Contributing

Let's make Webmail Linker the most comprehensive compilation of email providers out there!

You can fork this repository and create pull requests for providers.json. You do not even have to check out the repository – GitHub's web editing capabilities make contributing even simpler.

webmail-linker's Issues

Seperate the library and the actual list

Hi!

Very nice Idea, i've been looking for something like this for a long time. I think it would make more sense to split the list and the library to allow implementations for other languages easily and still have a central place for the list where all the updates can go to.

Again, nice work Tom. :)

Use Google Favicon Service to ensure up to date favicons

I have just spotted that some of the favicons are out-dated. Maybe it would be a good idea to use google to get the favicon.

http://www.google.com/s2/favicons?domain_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.de%2F

Replace the domain_url with the web save version of the domain url and it will get all the favicons perfectly.

Feature Request - composer

Make it composer compatible and publish it on packagist