Ruby Email Client Recommendation

Question

We are writing an email web client in Ruby to handle (potentially international) emails. I am looking for a high-level email library that supports retrieving emails, parsing email raw, decoding MIME, and converting input into UTF-8. Is there a library that you can recommend?

Answer 1

You can try any of these:

• TMail
• Action Mailer
• RubyMail

If you want to re-invent the wheel, there is the native Net::SMTP class. In another StackOverflow thread, there is a good proof of concept of this.

Answer 2

My favorite library for handling mail is MailFactory

Ruby comes with net/imap and net/pop to handle retrieving mail.