Hey Andrew, Are you sure that task was run in your email queue? Perhaps it was run in the default queue?
Do your tasks run on front-ends or backends? Just asking in case there is a long-running processon a backend sitting there spinning and consuming your email quota. Robert On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 09:23, Andrew Richardson <awrichards...@gmail.com> wrote: > > My app uses the Task Queue to send email messages...and a few days ago, I > must have gotten a bad task in the queue. One of the tasks has been failing > and retrying endlessly, eating up all my email quota (I guess they count > against your quota even with the message fails to send). > > Yesterday I paused my "email" queue, deleted a few tasks that looked like > they could be causing problems, and was hoping to dispatch the rest by hand > this morning to make sure they went out. But again, as soon as my quotas > were reset, my app went wild and blew up all the email quota for today. > > In the logs I see references to retries for things like > "X-Appengine-Queuename:email, X-Appengine-Taskname:2162362032997459024" - > but the email queue was supposedly paused, and that task number was not even > in the queue! It's probably one of the ones I deleted by hand - is it > expected for this task to still be present and running? Today I purged the > email queue and set it to a retry limit of 2...so I'm hoping that helps. > > Maybe I'm misunderstanding how Task Queues are supposed to work - I thought > that pausing it would stop any pending tasks from executing until I resumed > it? I hope someone can shed some light on this...thanks! > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-appengine/-/9G15Fj4GRBQJ. > 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.