Hie Jeff Which thrid party system do you guys use? please share the details like how u r using their service to send emails from your gae app
Vik On Sunday, 8 July 2012 09:13:15 UTC-7, Jeff Schnitzer wrote: > > I should add that we also use a third-party email system. Ultimately > it's no harder to make a REST call to an external service than to make > a call to MailService, and many services offer a much more robust > solution. GAE's mail system has silly limitations like the inability > to send emails with inline (Content-ID) image attachments. > > Just make sure that your 'unit of work' is the same as a single > urlfetch. You wouldn't want to put 100 REST calls in a single task - > imagine it failed at #50, then the whole task will retry and re-spam > #1-#49. If your mail service does "send this message to these 100 > people", great; otherwise stick to one-email-per-task. We do > one-email-per-task. > > Jeff > > On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 8:57 AM, Richard Watson <richard.wat...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Offload both transactional and bulk email to a 3rd-party email > specialist. > > It's their core competence, and you're likely to be able to send bulk > email > > with one api call once your list is set up. If you have issues you'll > have > > better insight into what those are. You can get delivery and read > reports, > > and automatic remove-me-from-your-list handling. > > > > > > On Sunday, July 8, 2012 5:27:04 PM UTC+2, Per wrote: > >> > >> Hi Vik, > >> > >> technical details aside, keep in mind that the spam filter settings on > App > >> Engine can be pretty strict. We have been sending mails for 18 months > now, > >> increasing the number gradually, and we also used DKIM signing. Still, > >> suddenly some time last week our mails stopped getting sent. From all I > can > >> tell some Google mechanism decided that we're a spammer. We have > inquired > >> with Google instantly, but of course the GAE customer service is poor > as > >> always and never got back to us. So we switched to an external email > >> provider now (mailgun, but there are dozens out there), and I'm quite > happy > >> with that, since tracking of emails is a lot more convenient too. It's > not > >> free though. > >> > >> Long story short, if you all of a sudden send 10k mails, be prepared to > >> get filtered by Google because they think you're a spammer. Make sure > to > >> spread the load, and track what you have sent already, so you know what > >> you'd need to resend if push comes to shove. > >> > >> Cheers, > >> Per > >> > >> > >> On Saturday, July 7, 2012 7:19:12 PM UTC+2, Vivek Kumar wrote: > >>> > >>> Hello > >>> > >>> We have around 10000 registered users with us who are blood donors. We > >>> want to send them periodic emails like every month to remind them or > their > >>> account status etc. > >>> Obviously, a single request cannot process so many emails. > >>> > >>> So, what is the suggested way to handle this use case without hitting > >>> request time limits etc on app engine? > >>> > >>> our app is in GAE for java > >>> > >>> Vik > > > > -- > > 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/-/m4NlskwCrF8J. > > > > 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-appengine/-/50oA3PksnIUJ. 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.
