rjmailer in the real world

One of my little pet projects is the rjmailer java email sending library. It does one specific thing, sending email, but does it with a twist: it actually tells you a lot about how the delivery went compared to other email sending solutions.

This is useful for example when you are about to sign up to an online service that requires your email to be validated by sending an email  message with a link for you to click to activate your account. If you spell your email address incorrectly the registration will fail, but you will not typically get any feedback that the email delivery failed.

With rjmailer it is possible to build an online service that tells the users if an email delivery failed right away in the web form that was used to register. Having this information can help the user to correct a spelling error or remove messages from a full inbox.

I released the initial public version of this piece of software back in april, but I haven't really had any time to start using it at work until now. This past week I spent a few hours modifying one of our projects, http://biblesearch.org, to use rjmailer when sending out account activation links and report back to the user if there was an issue sending out the mail. Feel free to try it out if you want, registering is free. Just fill out the form at the new user registration page.

While adding this feature I found a few small issues in rjmailer, so there is a new version available for download

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