Wow, great idea! I have been having some delivery issues lately with GAE and looking for an alternative.
I just downloaded a pythong Amazon SES library, signed up for SES, and put it all together and it works like a charm with GAE! On Mar 20, 10:31 pm, Nickolas Daskalou <n...@daskalou.com> wrote: > Hi Eric, > > Have you looked at Amazon's Simple Email Service (SES)? > > http://aws.amazon.com/ses/ > > Pretty much the same cost as sending email using GAE, except with SES you > only get 2,000 free emails if you're sending email from an EC2 instance. > > I haven't used it myself but apparently they scan outgoing mail to make sure > it meets "ISP standards". This leads me to believe emails sent via SES would > be less likely to be automatically marked as spam than on GAE, since SES's > spam-sending-reputation would be lower than GAE's, due to their > pre-filtering and rate-limiting. > > Nick > > On 21 March 2011 13:51, Eric Ka Ka Ng <ngk...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi Ernesto, > > > thx for your suggestion! yes, i think it shall work. > > > but in general if we can't ask all our users to add our email to their > > contact list (or they are not willing to do so), how can emails sent by us > > prevent to be regarded as spam? all our subject, body etc. are nothing > > spam-liked, and seems it's the problem of the email server that actually > > sends the email. anyone share similar case, or has other solution? > > > regards, > > eric > > > On 19 March 2011 00:12, Ernesto Karim Oltra <ernestoka...@gmail.com>wrote: > > >> Ask the user to add the e-mail from address of your e-mails to their > >> contacts list, so your e-mails would never been sent to spam again > >> (for that users, at least). > > >> It's a bit hacky, but can do a great work meanwhile you find another > >> solution. > > >> On 18 mar, 07:52, Eric Ka Ka Ng <ngk...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > we use mail.send_mail() to send some important messages to our users > >> through > >> > an app hosted on GAE, in which the 'from' has been set to one of a > >> > registered admin for the app. > > >> > it works quite well for most users, except for some email service > >> provider > >> > (e.g. '...@yahoo.com.hk'), they would always automatically treat these > >> emails > >> > as spam and put them into spam box of the user's email account (if the > >> user > >> > has enabled the spam filtering feature, which is by default "ON") . in > >> this > >> > case, many of our users do not aware for these important messages (they > >> > would seldom look into mails in their spambox) > > >> > we have tried using different "from", "subject", "body" and the results > >> are > >> > the same. we suspect that it is the email server does matter, and maybe > >> > before there were some other apps hosted on GAE sending spams to like '@ > >> > yahoo.com.hk', so '...@yahoo.com.hk' would regard all emails sent from > >> this > >> > email server in GAE as spam. > > >> > do anyone share similar experiences? or there should be other causes? > >> any > >> > ideas we can solve this problem? (successfully deliver the email to our > >> > users using those email service without being regarded as spam) thx in > >> > advanced! > > >> > - eric > > >> -- > >> 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. > > > -- > > 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. -- 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.
