Would E-mail work as a "simple" internal messaging system for my app?

Posted by brutuscat on Tuesday March 19, 2013 @05:24AM
from the self-post dept.

I'm building an app, where people can work with his team and they need an easy way to send messages each other.

It would be a good idea to setup an "internal" smtp server to send messages between them? Then I could use a lot of existing tools around that (smtp libs for an mobile app for example...)

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Re:Would E-mail work as a "simple" internal messaging system... by attheodo on Tuesday March 19, 2013 @05:56AM (#5399877)

If it should be "simple" and internal, no it wouldn't fit well. I wouldn't recommend it for any type of in-app communication actually. Depending on the architecture of the app you're about to build I pretty sure there are tons of more reliable and scalable solutions.

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Re:Would E-mail work as a "simple" internal messaging system... by brutuscat on Wednesday March 20, 2013 @11:17AM (#5407741)

What would you recommend instead? XMPP?

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Re:Would E-mail work as a "simple" internal messaging system... by Piskvorrr on Tuesday March 19, 2013 @06:14AM (#5399928)

How about using eXtensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMMP, a.k.a. Jabber) instead? That one at least doesn't have all the horrible historical baggage that e-mail is lugging around...because e-mail is anything but simple.

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Re:Would E-mail work as a "simple" internal messaging system... by brutuscat on Wednesday March 20, 2013 @11:18AM (#5407747)

Sounds reasonable, but XMPP seems harder to setup though... Or I'm over reacting?

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Re:Would E-mail work as a "simple" internal messaging system... by Piskvorrr on Thursday March 21, 2013 @08:03AM (#5414448)

Harder to setup - perhaps; but seems better suited to the task at hand. Using a simpler messaging protocol might be sufficient, but then Jabber is quite common, thus I'd expect support in libraries etc.

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