Recommend using a 3rd-party mailing solution like Sendgrid.com or Amazon's new service to get some decent deliverability (possibly Mailgun is another option). App Engine is not really trying to be a solution for this yet, imho.
I've used bcc constructs for newsgroup-post-publication style notifications (for ryze.com), but generally prefer generating individual msgs. Take a look at Facebook's From address structure sometime too for amusement, if you haven't already. -a On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 3:46 PM, Branko Vukelic <bg.bra...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have a few scenarios where I need to send emails en masse (batches > of 10 to maybe 200 or 400 addresses). In some cases, the batch size > would be a result of the amount of users' activities, and in certain > cases the batch is for notifications sent to multiple users at once > (something like a mailing list). > > The former will probably best handled by task queues, but for the > latter scenario (notification email), I was thinking maybe using BCC > would save some Mail API calls and time. The messages themselves are > identical in those cases, so I see no reason why it couldn't be sent > using BCC instead of TO field. Of course, it might have some > consequences that I'm failing to see. Can anyone advise me on this? > > -- > Branko Vukelić > bra...@herdhound.com > > Lead Developer > Herd Hound (tm) - Travel that doesn't bite > www.herdhound.com > > -- > 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. > > -- Adrian Scott, Ph.D. CEO, Founder CoderBuddy http://www.coderbuddy.com/ -- 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.
