There are three modules designed within the last 18 months that all purport to provide the same basic functionality: creating new nodes in an organic group via email.
http://drupal.org/project/mail2og (June 10 2009) alpha version
http://drupal.org/project/og_mailhandler (Sept 22, 2009) a dev version
http://drupal.org/project/og_mailinglist (March 17, 2010) alpha version

it is unclear why the second two even exist (full disclosure, I helped to spec out Mail2og with arthurf). But I am not speaking selfishly. I don't care one way or another which module or approach delivers the functionality. I just want to see the functionality available with drupal. But instead of having a solid module that allows users to create nodes within a specific organic group we have 3 modules none of which have stable releases.

I am sure that the developers of these modules, at one point or another, were motivated either by interest or a client contract to provide this functionality. I am also sure that between the three a fare amount of work and thinking has gone in to solving the problem. Perhaps one, two or all three of the developers would be interested in collaborating on developing a module if not for drupal6 than looking toward drupal7 that offers this functionality? Or hand off maintenance of their module to someone else, or officially retire/abandon their module to make room for one of the others to become a solution that others can rally around.

Thinks about it.
see also http://drupal.org/node/797306
http://drupal.org/node/797308

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jludwig commented
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

og_mailhandler solved a completely different problem and is actually no longer needed with just basic OG 2.x+.

On the other hand, og_mailinglist uses a completely different approach to this functionality. While mail2og leverages Mailhandler+Mailcomment+Notifications, OG Mailinglist implements its own system.