# Recieve email in rails

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**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [July 23, 2008, 6:36am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/recieve-email-in-rails/143839 "2008-07-23T06:36:53Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 23, 2008, 6:36am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/recieve-email-in-rails/143839/1 "2008-07-23T06:36:53Z")

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Hi,  
anybody knows how to implement receiving mail in rails plz reply me…

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**Author:** ![ganana\_srishti](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/e480ec/32.png) [@ganana\_srishti](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ganana_srishti)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2008, 6:57am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/recieve-email-in-rails/143839/2 "2008-07-23T06:57:26Z")

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On Tuesday 22 July 2008 23:31:17 Pragash Mr. wrote:

> Hi,  
> anybody knows how to implement receiving mail in rails plz reply me…

There is no simple answer to what you’re asking, and no, you probably  
cannot  
do it directly in Rails.

If you’re using an email provider, you could look at something like  
Fetchmail,  
or look for Ruby libraries for POP3/IMAP.

## If you can run your own mailserver, you could always setup an alias which delivers to a local script. But again, this script won’t be rails itself

it would have to be something which either talks to your app via REST,  
or  
loads up ActiveRecord and your model classes (slow), or talks to a DRb  
server  
which loads up ActiveRecord and your model classes (good, but complex).