Are there any SMTP to HTTP free services (Email to POST)?

Question

I was pointed to the service smtp2web a while back, but I've been trying it out and it doesn't seem to work. Are there any others out there? Any way to accomplish this in ruby?

I write an email and send it to lanceJpollard@smtp2web and get this response immediately:

Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:

 [email protected]

Technical details of permanent failure: Google tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by the recipient domain. We recommend contacting the other email provider for further information about the cause of this error. The error that the other server returned was: 550 550 Cannot receive for specified address (state 14).

----- Original message -----

MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.231.80.213 with SMTP id u21mr6871412ibk.173.1282618290464; Mon, 23 Aug 2010 19:51:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.231.185.135 with HTTP; Mon, 23 Aug 2010 19:51:30 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 21:51:30 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Hello From: Lance Pollard To: lanceJpollard Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=0015176f0f3495fbba048e88d7b8

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Any ideas?

Update

Duntadada: Sendgrid.

Point a subdomain MX record to our server, we parse incoming emails and post attachments and body contents to your web forms. Useful to have [email protected] or interact with users through email.

Answer 1

You could write a small Google App Engine app which receives the email and then posts it to wherever you want using urlfetch.

http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/mail/receivingmail.html

http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/urlfetch/

App Engine is free unless you have a lot of traffic.

It supports Python or Java, not Ruby though.

Answer 2

I know this is a bit of a plug but I have been developing http://cloudmailin.com to do exactly this. It's currently in beta but the aim is to always have a free version.