Handling mail: rails vs php vs perl vs? <p>This is my very first question in stack overflow and I am quite excited. Liked a lot the interface of this site and the buoyant community!</p> <p>I am building a rails app that receives text as an email and creates a post.</p> <p>I ask or your expert opinion on which is the best option to receive the mail message and process it?</p> <p>To send the mail to the application:</p> <ul> <li>A1: X accesses a POP/IMAP account periodically (30s cronjob?) and processes the message</li> <li>A2: the message is piped from the mailserver to the application X</li> </ul> <p>To process the application</p> <ul> <li>B1: rails with MMS2R</li> <li>B2: PHP that processes the message and sends a POST in rails</li> <li>B3: PERL that processes the message and sends a POST to rails</li> </ul> <p>Which combination A+B would you recommend for a big volume of mails?</p> <p>Any other A or B option?</p> <p>Thank you very much and good luck with all your scripting!</p>