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

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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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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.

What would you recommend instead? XMPP?

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.

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

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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