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If you're only interested in receiving email, Google Apps for Domains is great. If you need to send it (for example, as part of your service), you should check out AuthSMTP (http://authsmtp.com/).

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You can also use Google Apps for your Domain to send emails. I even wrote a Rails plugin for doing just that:

http://github.com/openrain/action_mailer_tls

There may be an outgoing limit, but I've personally never encountered it.

We actually send mail through Google Apps and our rails help ticket system. Just got hit with a sending quota the other day. Didn't get a number, just that we sent too many.

Why do you need this? Google will accept mail via authenticated and encrypted SMTP so you can use standard tools to send your mail.

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