Hi Jay,

You don't need to have your mail server hosted with Heroku to do this.
In fact, we don't even offer mail server hosting, and have no plans to
do so for a variety of reasons mostly related to managing and
protecting against spam.

When you tie a custom domain name to your Heroku app, all you're doing
is creating a CNAME record that'll point a subdomain (like www) to
your app. Your mail server will be hosted somewhere else as indicated
by the MX records for your domain. There's a variety of options you
could choose here, but the free edition of Google Apps mail hosting,
might be a good place to start: 
http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/admins/editions.html.
This would also allow you to use the GMail STMP service - a popular
choice with many Heroku users.

Hope this helps,

/Morten

P.S. I have a Yahoo mail account, and I noticed you can now configure
any number of mail addresses that can send mail through Yahoo using
your main account credentials for SMTP authentication. They sure hid
thos options well, but http://us.f811.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Options and
clicking "Mail Addresses" gets me there.


On Jun 13, 4:49 am, Jay Godse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I think my application just got blessed (at my request). I know this
> because now I can apparently fill in a custom domain name.
>
> Suppose I buywww.hockey.comas my domain. I want to be able to send
> out emails from my application with [EMAIL PROTECTED] as the from:
> address. I'm not sure how to do this with Heroku. I also want to be
> able to read emails to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> I have some working code at home that will connect to my Yahoo account
> and send email under my Yahoo account name, but none that will do it
> under my custom domain name.
>
> So...how to I associate a Heroku-hosted mail server to my Heroku
> application and custom domain?
>
> Curiously,   Jay
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