oh man, sending emails is a pain. the process of doing it successfully is awkward, expensive and surprisingly opaque. here's what i recall, don't quote me on it...
1.) in order to have a chance-in-hell to getting email through, you need to send email from a 'whitelisted' email provider. the term you're looking for is 'email marketing campaign' or the like. yes, even when someone has given you their email and opted in to receiving emails, you need to go through a whitelist service to have a chance-in- hell of getting the email through. 2.) i think there are 2-3 big whiltelist services that are the master- services for all the other ones, but they won't even deal with you unless your volume is decent (i'd guess 100K email / day off the top of my head). there are then hundreds of smaller services that go through them, offering smaller marked-up packages. 3.) i've used these people before: http://www.campaigner.com/ if i recall, they're about mid-tier, integration was better than some but still a pain. 4.) don't expect to see big click-though rates. i would peg 1-2% CTR unless you're really delivering something really compelling to the user. again, all off the top of my head, but hope it helps a bit. good luck... On Sep 25, 1:52 pm, Adam Strickland <adam.strickl...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've got a problem and am looking for suggestions. Our GAE app sends > email. In fact, one could say that the success of the application > depends on clickthrough from those emails to the application. The > problem is, with the limitations on sending SMTP messages using GAE > (from docs: "For security purposes, the sender address of a message > must be the email address of an administrator for the application, or > the Google Account email address of the current user who is signed in. > The message can also include a "reply to" address, which must also > meet these restrictions."), our generic from email address > (invitati...@flexvite.com) is too often being disregarded or judged to > be spam by the recipients. Any thoughts or suggestions? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
