Hi, In order to add an address to your gmail account, you need to confirm it is yours - so spammers still cannot use this to send an email from an account they do not own.
A far simpler way to do this is to create a Google account for any valid email address, at https://www.google.com/accounts/NewAccount <https://www.google.com/accounts/NewAccount>-Nick Johnson On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 2:44 PM, quodt <bernd.roe...@gmail.com> wrote: > Today i noticed a strange behavior while trying to set a custom email > address as sender. As far as i know a sender of an email can be the > logged in user or any administrator of the application. Administrators > of any Google AppEngine application must be either gmail adresses or > valid email addresses of a google-apps domain (right?). ok so far. > Since the email address i tried to send from is not an address of a > google-apps domains i did a simple trick: > > - I added a newly created gmail-address to the application and > confirmed it. so the account was active for my application > - Then i added an alternative email address to that account (the > address i try to sond from) > - Finally i removed the gmail service from the account so the > previous alternative email address became the primary one > > What i've got was a naked google account with an email address of a > foreign domain which has been approved as a valid administrator of my > application. > > After that i tried to send mails with that infiltrated email address > in the from-filed and it worked fine! > > Unfortunately, since i had this email address listed in my developers > list of the application i was not able to confirm any further > invitations. > > This seems to be a serious problem due to spam abuse. > > Regards, Bernd > > -- > 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-appeng...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<google-appengine%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > > -- Nick Johnson, Developer Programs Engineer, App Engine Google Ireland Ltd. :: Registered in Dublin, Ireland, Registration Number: 368047 Google Ireland Ltd. :: Registered in Dublin, Ireland, Registration Number: 368047 -- 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-appeng...@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.
