Coincidence.  I've noticed a surge in mail timeouts over the past few days.  As 
I said on a different thread, this is really stupid - google should be able to 
send mail without EVER having a timeout. For now, you need to always send mail 
from a task, because of these ridiculous exceptions.

On Sep 13, 2011, at 3:44 PM, Rishi Arora wrote:

> I received at least 10 instances of these errors in one day yesterday, out of 
> around ~50 emails that were sent through the day.  In the last few months 
> that my app has been executing, I have never seen this.  Searching on Google 
> revealed that the best cure is to send emails in the context of a task-queue 
> request instead of a user facing request.  That makes sense.  However, 
> yesterday was also the day I rolled out instance-hour-saving optimizations, 
> and reduced my max_idle_instances to 1, while setting min_pending_latency to 
> 200ms.  This scheduler parameter change has not had any effect on overall 
> performance of my app, in terms of average latencies, etc.  I'm wondering if 
> it is just a coincidence that my mail.send() call timedout, or was it somehow 
> related to my scheduler parameter changes.  Any thoughts?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> Rishi
> 
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