5 ms·

Curious about incoming email. Not even a price comparison, just a list of companies.

dangrossman 15y ago
What do you want to do with incoming mail? Just outsource the mailboxes to check from your computer/phone, or are you looking for some kind of preprocessing service for connecting mail to your apps?
caiusdurling 15y ago
One I can think of offhand is http://cloudmailin.com/ http://cloudmailin.com/
- alexknowshtml 15y ago
  Postmark is offering this as well. It's been in private beta for a number of months but is solid. It's been in production on our other app, Beanstalk, as well our customers apps including the issue tracker DoneDone (http://www.getdonedone.com http://www.getdonedone.com). Beta is closed now until we open the feature to the public, which is planned to be very soon.
twakefield 15y ago
We/Mailgun focus a lot on incoming mail parsing and routing. Honestly, we find it more interesting than just sending/delivery. Although, there is clearly more market demand for sending. We also allow you to create IMAP/POP3 mailboxes programmatically. We wrote a blog post about it recently[1] and you can also check out our docs for more information[2]. The other companies that I am aware of with incoming email capabilities are Sendgrid with their Parse API[3] and I believe Cloudmailin[4] focuses exclusively on handling incoming email. Edit: Postmark[5] has incoming email in beta as well. Added links, too [1] http://blog.mailgun.net/post/12482374892/handle-incoming-emails-like-a-pro-mailgun-api-2-0 http://blog.mailgun.net/post/12482374892/handle-incoming-ema... [2] http://documentation.mailgun.net/user_manual.html#receiving-messages http://documentation.mailgun.net/user_manual.html#receiving-... [3] http://docs.sendgrid.com/documentation/api/parse-api-2/ http://docs.sendgrid.com/documentation/api/parse-api-2/ [4] http://cloudmailin.com/ http://cloudmailin.com/ [5] http://postmarkapp.com/ http://postmarkapp.com/
- alexknowshtml 15y ago
  > We also allow you to create IMAP/POP3 mailboxes programmatically. This sounds cool - is there a non-obvious (at least to me) case for this beyond providing your customers with fully-functional inboxes?
  - twakefield 15y ago
    Some customers use it for redundancy. So if we POST a message to them and they mishandle it, they can go back and search the inbox.
cmer 15y ago
Check out Context.io, they have a unique and interesting take on "incoming email". Basically, they turn mailboxes into databases.

What do you want to do with incoming mail? Just outsource the mailboxes to check from your computer/phone, or are you looking for some kind of preprocessing service for connecting mail to your apps?

caiusdurling 15y ago

One I can think of offhand is http://cloudmailin.com/ http://cloudmailin.com/

alexknowshtml 15y ago
Postmark is offering this as well. It's been in private beta for a number of months but is solid. It's been in production on our other app, Beanstalk, as well our customers apps including the issue tracker DoneDone (http://www.getdonedone.com http://www.getdonedone.com). Beta is closed now until we open the feature to the public, which is planned to be very soon.

twakefield 15y ago

We/Mailgun focus a lot on incoming mail parsing and routing. Honestly, we find it more interesting than just sending/delivery. Although, there is clearly more market demand for sending. We also allow you to create IMAP/POP3 mailboxes programmatically. We wrote a blog post about it recently[1] and you can also check out our docs for more information[2]. The other companies that I am aware of with incoming email capabilities are Sendgrid with their Parse API[3] and I believe Cloudmailin[4] focuses exclusively on handling incoming email. Edit: Postmark[5] has incoming email in beta as well. Added links, too [1] http://blog.mailgun.net/post/12482374892/handle-incoming-emails-like-a-pro-mailgun-api-2-0 http://blog.mailgun.net/post/12482374892/handle-incoming-ema... [2] http://documentation.mailgun.net/user_manual.html#receiving-messages http://documentation.mailgun.net/user_manual.html#receiving-... [3] http://docs.sendgrid.com/documentation/api/parse-api-2/ http://docs.sendgrid.com/documentation/api/parse-api-2/ [4] http://cloudmailin.com/ http://cloudmailin.com/ [5] http://postmarkapp.com/ http://postmarkapp.com/

alexknowshtml 15y ago
> We also allow you to create IMAP/POP3 mailboxes programmatically. This sounds cool - is there a non-obvious (at least to me) case for this beyond providing your customers with fully-functional inboxes?
- twakefield 15y ago
  Some customers use it for redundancy. So if we POST a message to them and they mishandle it, they can go back and search the inbox.

cmer 15y ago

Check out Context.io, they have a unique and interesting take on "incoming email". Basically, they turn mailboxes into databases.