I have been extremely happy with GAE mail sending and receiving state and is production quality for me and my customers. It needs additional features like being able to send and receive using custom domains but the stated capability works great for us, please stop taking every opportunity to bash it!!! (Sorry for forking the thread but had to respond to this).
Thanks, PK On Dec 7, 2012, at 9:55 AM, Jeff Schnitzer <j...@infohazard.org> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Wes <westho...@gmail.com> wrote: > Short of a change in the rules, I'll have to look elsewhere for the mail > services (i.e. I'll have to give my money to someone else). This really > complicates new domain setup. > > To be honest... GAE's email system has never been "production quality". > Every time it comes up in conversation on this list the advice from longtime > users (including myself) is always "use a third-party service". It's not > complicated - just enqueue a task that submits the (typically REST) value to > Amazon SES or one of the zillions of other companies that focus on > deliverability and customer support. > > I don't consider this much of a shortcoming in GAE; there is no inherent > advantage in having email built into Google's infrastructure. Sending an > email is just an API call either way. I'd rather have Google focus on things > that third parties can't do well, like add features to the datastore. > > Jeff > > -- > 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.
