Yeah this is pretty silly; as Jamie mentioned, you're almost certainly better off using Amazon's service for sending emails. I've never spoke with anyone who regrets switching. As I recall, various Googlers have suggested you might be better off using SES, or other similar services, as well.
Robert On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 16:25, Joshua Smith <joshuaesm...@charter.net> wrote: > Yes, I always use a task to send email for exactly this reason. Easily > solved, but really kind of silly. > > On Sep 10, 2011, at 5:16 PM, JH wrote: > >> This error was happening a year ago when I used to send gae email. I >> get far less urlfetch timeouts when sending via Amazon... If you are >> going to email with gae you need to do it via tasks so they will >> retry. You will continue to see this mail.send timeout. >> >> On Sep 10, 2:46 pm, Joshua Smith <joshuaesm...@charter.net> wrote: >>> On Sep 10, 2011, at 2:18 PM, Robert Kluin wrote: >>> >>>> Email is basically asynchronous. >>> >>> And yet the most common timeout error I see in my apps is: >>> >>> DeadlineExceededError: The API call mail.Send() took too long to respond >>> and was cancelled. >>> >>> I know this is a totally different kind of synchronous than you were >>> talking about, but it's ironic, no? If there's one thing a distributed >>> system should be able to do with no delay, it's sending email. >>> >>> -Joshua >> >> -- >> 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.
