Heavy e-mail receive

Rails
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Performance experts,

Normally to receive e-mails is to pipe their content to script/runner
individually from a mail server, sendmail or postfix. Doesn’t this
configuration run like Apache 1.3 with CGI, meaning for each e-mail a
boot of the entire Rails environment and thus low scalability?

Is there anything working like lighttpd-fcgi or going toward its
approach?

DD

2

We’ve solved this problem by writing a little gateway that receives
SMTP and submits each incoming e-mail to Rails as a HTTP post.

3

On Apr 3, 2006, at 11:22 AM, Doug D. wrote:

Normally to receive e-mails is to pipe their content to script/runner
individually from a mail server, sendmail or postfix. Doesn’t this
configuration run like Apache 1.3 with CGI, meaning for each e-mail a
boot of the entire Rails environment and thus low scalability?

You can receive to an account, and retrieve via POP.

–
– Tom M.

4

Pete Y. wrote:

We’ve solved this problem by writing a little gateway that receives
SMTP and submits each incoming e-mail to Rails as a HTTP post.

It sounds great. Is this little gateway open-sourced?

If not, the POP or mail file processing can be a quick performance
workaround.

Thank you for the hints!

DD

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On 05/04/2006, at 3:30 AM, Doug D. wrote:

Pete Y. wrote:

We’ve solved this problem by writing a little gateway that receives
SMTP and submits each incoming e-mail to Rails as a HTTP post.

It sounds great. Is this little gateway open-sourced?

Sorry, no. It shouldn’t be hard to write your own though. If you have
your own mail server forwarding email in, then you only need to
support enough of a subset of SMTP to keep your mail server happy.

Cheers,

Pete Y.

6

I have my mail server write the emails to files, and I run a Rails
daemon
that processes the files.