[LRUG] pop3 imap gmail

[James McCarthy]

Cheers, for the low volume things I was thinking of it doesn't look  
prohibitive.
On 10 Mar 2008, at 17:30, Daniel Tenner wrote:

> 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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