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Open-source email processing built in Erlang

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Kirill Zubovsky
@kirillzubovsky · Troublemaker. Founder. Dad
Wonderful idea, if only it wasn't written in Erlang. It's a very suitable language for their are doing, probably, but having to learn how to use it in order to set this thing up is just too much of a pain, in comparison to making what they have in a language of choice. Of course, the end state for this product is probably to be open sourced and SAAS at the … See more
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Erik Torenberg
@eriktorenberg · Former Product Hunt
thought i'd post as i see a few products trying to modernize email. cc'ing founder @mickhagen, who I also met through his talent for rap - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qGJYA5RAoI :)
Ben Drucker
@bendrucker · Founder, Valet.io
@kirillzubovsky It's written in Erlang but it's glue from IMAP to WebSockets. If you really need this functionality it would be way faster than a ground-up rewrite.
Thomas Moulia
@jtmoulia · Software Engineer
I helped develop Switchboard with Spatch (http://spatch.co/), and can answer questions. Our motivation in building and continuing to build Switchboard is to make it easier for developers to process and take actions on incoming emails.
Thomas Moulia
@jtmoulia · Software Engineer
@kirillzubovsky Yup, @bendrucker is right: Switchboard provides a translation from IMAP to WebSockets. Workers/clients connect to Switchboard over WebSockets, and can be written in any language: here's a basic email -> push notification worker written in Python: https://github.com/jtmoulia/swit... You'd only have to work in Erlang for extending Switchboa… See more