I’m in the middle of writing a Java application on App Engine to receive mail, and I decided to look up on how to do it in Go. It’s shockingly easy, just a few lines of code (r represents http.Request):
c := appengine.NewContext(r)
defer r.Body.Close()
msg, err := mail.ReadMessage(r.Body)
And that’s it. You can extract headers and the mail message body from the Message struct. It’s quite pleasant to use, and surprisingly fast at parsing email.
