Handling Inbox on Heroku

Question

For my third-party kwiqi project , I use the ActionMailer receiving method to process incoming email messages to track my expenses. Heroku does not have a local mail server that does not work. One of the solutions that I was thinking about is to periodically click on the action of the controller, which pulls messages from Gmail. Are there other reasonable solutions? Does anyone handle incoming emails at Heroku?

Answer 1

Heroku supports working employees with DelayedJob. Workers are located in the same way as Dynos (you pay by the hour), and for this you get a dedicated resource for processing your letters.

In the past, I used Cron, the calling controller in my application. It is quite effective.

If the hourly limit is a problem, you can call your application from another place ... I have a cheap Dreamhost account for some of my non-priority sites that I used as Cron systems.

There are also many ping and uptime services that you can use for this purpose ... just transfer these services to your email controller.

Answer 2

sendgrid parse api (http://wiki.sendgrid.com/doku.php?id=parse_api). , : http://nanceskitchen.com/2010/02/21/accept-incoming-emails-into-a-heroku-app-using-sendgrid/

Answer 3

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Answer 4

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I would recommend using Gmail and using delayed work as an alternative to cron to set a more reasonable frequency. There is a good guide on setting this option on WiseJive