Connect to email via Ruby

Question

I really love the way ruby-gmail gem allows me to have complete control of gmail via ruby. Unfortunately the HTML stripping 'feature' of gmail is problematic. What is a good email gem and email hosting provider for automating email through ruby.

Thanks, Jeff

Answer 1

It's not a gem, but I've had good luck with the net/imap library (included with Ruby).

I have some example code here: http://github.com/benjaminoakes/snippets/blob/master/ruby/gmail_imap.rb

I've only tried reading email so far, so YMMV.