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Running lamson side by side with Google Apps for Domains.

Running lamson side by side with Google Apps for Domains. by Scott Williams
- Re: [lamson] Running lamson side by side with Google Apps for Domains. by Daniel Holth
  - Re: [lamson] Running lamson side by side with Google Apps for Domains. by Scott Williams

Running lamson side by side with Google Apps for Domains.

From:: Scott Williams
Date:: 2011-01-04 @ 22:38

Say I have the domain example.com.

I want my users to be able to email comms@example.com, and have lamson do
its thing (talk to my app, make REST calls, etc). But I also want to be able
to have bob@example.com andjane@example.com be able to read/write their mail
using Google Apps for Domains.

Can I configure lamson to handle this? Or should I forward mail from
comms@example.com to lamson? Or something else entirely.

Thanks.

Re: [lamson] Running lamson side by side with Google Apps for Domains.

From:: Daniel Holth
Date:: 2011-01-05 @ 15:15

I am curious about what Google's policy is regarding using their mail
servers to send and receive mail from programs instead of people. Were you
able to find out?

I use fetchmail to ferry mail from an IMAP inbox to lamson and it works
fine. My fetchmailrc:

poll mail.example.org protocol imap username "bob" password "secret"
smtphost localhost/8923 smtpname bob@example.org keep

Take off the 'keep' once you are ready to have fetchmail delete the fetched
messages from the IMAP server.

fetchmail runs as a daemon, maintaining a persistent IMAP connection and
immediately forwarding the mail to lamson when it is available.

Daniel

Re: [lamson] Running lamson side by side with Google Apps for Domains.

From:: Scott Williams
Date:: 2011-01-05 @ 15:27

I don't know their official policy, but everything that I've read says that
they allow it, but put some relatively tight limits on it (around 200
messages/day I *think*). I can pull email from gmail, and send it via their
servers programmatically, but I need finer-grained control, and suspect that
I will hit those ceilings relatively soon with my app.

Thanks.

On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 3:15 PM, Daniel Holth <dholth@gmail.com> wrote:

> I am curious about what Google's policy is regarding using their mail
> servers to send and receive mail from programs instead of people. Were you
> able to find out?
>
> I use fetchmail to ferry mail from an IMAP inbox to lamson and it works
> fine. My fetchmailrc:
>
> poll mail.example.org protocol imap username "bob" password "secret"
> smtphost localhost/8923 smtpname bob@example.org keep
>
> Take off the 'keep' once you are ready to have fetchmail delete the fetched
> messages from the IMAP server.
>
> fetchmail runs as a daemon, maintaining a persistent IMAP connection and
> immediately forwarding the mail to lamson when it is available.
>
> Daniel
>