I hate setting up mail infrastructure. I haven't gotten around to look into Zed Shaw's Lamson, which looks promising, but in general, setting up and maintaining mail servers is just painful. So when building little sidekick apps and private projects in Rails I'm always looking for an easy way out. I still have to try it out, but the aproach in this post looks promising. It uses Google's App Engine and the remail gem to send and receive mails in a RESTful way. If anyone is using this aproach or has tried it already, I'd be glad to hear your thoughts.

Or... any better ideas?

BTW: You can receive/send 2000 Mails/day from Google App Engine for free. For me and my little sidekick project this is more than enough for now.

posted on: 09-12-2010