handle incoming mail

rubyonrails-talk
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HI all,

I would like to write a very simple mailinglist and wonder if (and how) this can be done with Rails.

I have usergroups and want to automatically make a mailinglist for each group. eg a group is named testers . When you send a mail to testers@mydomain.com all the users in the testers group should receive the mail.

I don't know whether Rails can handle incoming mails?

Thanks in advance, Stijn

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First of all, i would not count on ActionMailer to handle large quantities of mailing lists since it's none queued and the mails are sent one after another. i suggest you might consider a use of a 3rd party mailing list service. as for incoming mail, check out this page http://blog.craigambrose.com/past/2008/2/9/respond_toemail_or_how_to_handle/

if you insist of using ActionMailer, try this to accelerate things a little bit by enabling threaded operations.