Jonathan
I know there are many different libraries to handle sending mail, but are there anyones for handling receiving of emails ?, im looking to implement something similar to plans@tripit.com, that is i send an email to that address and tripit will parse it and do stuff.. is there a library like that ?
thanks in advance
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rodrigues
Hi @Jonathan, you might wanna take a look at GitHub - gen-smtp/gen_smtp: The extensible Erlang SMTP client and server library. · GitHub
hauleth
There is
mailwhich implements RFC2822 parser. However you still need to handle receiving emails on your own. You probably would like to use some external service with web hooks for receiving, ex. Mailgun has such feature as well as SparkPost, SendGrid, and Mandrill.Jonathan
thanks for the replys @rodrigues @hauleth, I’ll look into the gen_smtp lib
priojk
If you don’t mind reading the incoming e-mail from an IMAP-server, there is also this library: https://github.com/Around25/eximap
Paradox
I’ll repeat what @hauleth said and assert go with Mailgun or some other provider.
Mailgun makes receiving, and even programmatically routing, a breeze. I used it a few years back to handle RSVPs for my wedding. Far better to deal with a REST/HTTP api than the actual Email protocols
nico_amsterdam
pop3mail receives mail via the Erlang pop3client (a.k.a. Erlpop) from a Pop3-mailserver and decodes the mail.
The readme example shows how to use the elixir API.
maartenvanvliet
I wrote Receivex receivex | Hex that abstracts mail providers for receiving email. Right now Mailgun and Mandrill are supported.
The library is still pretty minimal but worked for me
Rehman
you can also try mail author lib Mailroom
gernotkogler
Hi
I’m looking for an IMAP client package for Elixir. My needs:
I’m interested in Mails with attachments and I need the sender domain and the attachments.
Does anybody have a complete example how to process an inbox with Mailroom using IMAP? The docs are not exactly complete and the IMAP example does not work.
Thanks!
derek-zhou
IMAP is a beast in complexity. There are some IMAP packages on hex but I dn’t know how good they are. I use POP3 with pop3client:
It is old, it is Erlang, and it is reliable.