bad name... as there is a <i>very</i> established project already using the name.. <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/index.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/index.html</a>
I'm not sure why everyone's focusing on the name, but this looks like a great project. I was just wishing that something like this existed yesterday, and poof, here it is. Great work! My only suggestion would be to support imap/gmail integration and the like without requiring an extra step such as getmail.
Wow. When choosing a name for a new project, isn't it standard practice to look for name collisions first -- google it, check freshmeat, apt-cache search, make search in freebsd ports, etc?
Looks a lot like a light version of the Pythonic and much beastlier Lamson (<a href="http://www.lamsonproject.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.lamsonproject.org/</a>) created by Mr. Shaw.
Very cool; mail handling is an area where Ruby needs work.<p>One question: Does it properly quote non-ASCII characters in mail headers? That's been a big pain point for me over the years, which I fixed by being lazy and using Javamail.<p>Good names for mail gems are hard to come by; my Javamail wrapper for JRuby ended up going through four different names because Mail, Mailer, Postman and Postal were all taken (we finally called the damn thing Postinius).<p>I'll at least offer my suggestion for a name; what about 'Takkyu'? Takkyubin is a very famous delivery service over here in Japan.
Could you tell us what other similar projects/gems exist in ruby? How is this different or better than them ?<p>Are you handling gmail accounts, TLS authentication ?
Is this 1.9 compliant ?
I think the MTA->Maildir->Mailman route is odd; why not go MTA->Mailman directly, like, say, GNU Mailman, maildrop/procmail, or any other mail filter I've ever seen?