# Read email in ruby

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/read-email-in-ruby/171585>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [July 6, 2009, 9:56am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/read-email-in-ruby/171585 "2009-07-06T09:56:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![remco](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/9d8465/32.png) [@remco](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/remco)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2009, 9:56am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/read-email-in-ruby/171585/1 "2009-07-06T09:56:26Z")

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Hi,

We receive from our partner notification emails. My idea is to insert  
this email in our database.

Ideas/links for reading emails in ruby?

Grtz…remco

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**Author:** ![remco](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/9d8465/32.png) [@remco](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/remco)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2009, 10:11am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/read-email-in-ruby/171585/2 "2009-07-06T10:11:15Z")

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Am 06.07.2009 um 09:56 schrieb Remco S.:

> Ideas/links for reading emails in ruby?

Considering this is a rails ML, I suppose you meant rails, not ruby.  
If so, have a look at the guides for rails

> **[Action Mailer Basics — Ruby on Rails Guides](https://guides.rubyonrails.org/action_mailer_basics.html#receiving-emails)**
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> Action Mailer BasicsThis guide provides you with all you need to get started in sending emails from your application, and many internals of Action Mailer. It also covers how to test your mailers.After reading this guide, you will know: How to send...

, else consider using actionmailer and go back to step 1…

Regards,

Felix

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**Author:** ![remco](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/9d8465/32.png) [@remco](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/remco)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2009, 1:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/read-email-in-ruby/171585/3 "2009-07-06T13:47:45Z")

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Remco S. wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> We receive from our partner notification emails. My idea is to insert  
> this email in our database.
> 
> Ideas/links for reading emails in ruby?
> 
> Grtz…remco

This will be a good start unless you don’t have imap mail server.

[http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/111803](http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/111803)

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TheR