Is there a mechanism to receive emails and/or establish IMAP connections in Google App Engine? I know that GAE provides limited support for the JavaMail API (i.e. only allow to send emails). Any workaround?
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No, that is a limitation of the system (network calls are essentially limited to web requests).
jsight
2009-08-26 20:24:15
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Not currently, but it is on the roadmap: http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/roadmap.html
See http://www.smtp2web.com/ (made by a googler) for a temporary solution.
csytan
2009-08-26 20:45:12
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For future readers of this post: the ability to receive email has been recently added to Google App Engine. Link to announcement