Email Services

Using Email with the Web

Often, you'll want to send email from a web(-facing) application or process email and have this talk to the web

Example: forum + mailing list

A common use-case (and in fact, one that has been talked about with respect to p2pu.org is a combination mailing list discussions.

Desired features:

Email-Web Gateway

The name for this type of architecture is an email-web gateway

Downsides of Email

Pipe-Dream: Discussions

All of these things are basically the same:

What they all have in common: