[LRUG] pop3 imap gmail

[Daniel Tenner]

There's a limit to 500 different recipients per domain per day... if  
you're running anything that might need to send a lot of emails all  
over the place, that can be a big problem for obvious reasons.

Also, you can only send emails as the addresses registered against  
your mail account. So for instance if you have no-reply at mydomain.com  
and support at mydomain.com, etc, you need to have all those registered  
on GAFYD. If you decide you want to have  
<somedynamicfield>@mydomain.com, you can't.

Finally, as i understand it, mail servers have a reputation thing  
going on... Even if you're sending lots of non-spam email through your  
server, it'll take a while to build the reputation of your mail  
server. Since you'll have to move to that at some point anyway, might  
as well get started as early as possible.

Hence, for commercial sites, I'd avoid using google mail's SMTP  
(though I still use GAFYD as the mail receiver).

Hope this helps,

Daniel

On 10 Mar 2008, at 17:1010 Mar 2008, James McCarthy wrote:

> Daniel,
>
> Can you expand on the limits and the hurt? I was thinking of using it
> for registration & activation email only using a google apps account
> that I use for all the rest of the domains email.
>
> Cheeers,
> James
>
>
>
>
> On 10 Mar 2008, at 16:49, Daniel Tenner wrote:
>
>> I've connected to gmail via ActionMailer before, using something
>> called msmtp. Not very practical at the end of the day... I don't
>> recommend it as a long term solution, mainly because GMail has limits
>> and they'll hurt you eventually if you're building a proper web
>> application, but for personal email it might work.
>>
>> So: your keyword is msmtp.
>>
>> Daniel
>>
>> On 10 Mar 2008, at 16:4610 Mar 2008, Anthony Green wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> If this is part of testing an app see
>>>
>>> http://podcast.sdruby.com/2008/1/10/episode-039-actionmailer-in-
>>> action
>>>
>>> Where they use
>>>
>>> http://www.freepops.org/en/
>>>
>>>
>>> On 10/3/08 16:35, "aidy lewis" <aidy.lewis at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Has anyone managed to connect to a gmail account either through  
>>>> imap
>>>> or pop3 cos I am struggling.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers
>>>>
>>>> Aidy
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