I have been hunting for some time now for a service that both allows sending of messages and receiving of messages in a conveniently wrapped solution such as MailGun, Postmark, SendGrid and others. So far I have not been any "developer friendly" solution that facilitates both an smtp service + an imap service for receipt and account management for large quantities (ie, Google Apps is not acceptable).
Am I overlooking a robust already existent solution or do I need to roll my own?
MailGun, Postmark, SendGrid You do not need them. can speak directly with a server. I post part one and part two for example what i use. Have fun!