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!
>
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