[google-appengine] Re: About the mail api, how do developers know if a mail is sent successfully or not?

2011-09-18 Thread Tapir
I want to make it simple, by using the surrounding services gae team is proud of, although many of the surrounding services are lame, I am willing to believing gae team will make them better soon. On Sep 11, 9:26 am, Robert Kluin wrote: > Yeah this is pretty silly; as Jamie mentioned, you're almo

Re: [google-appengine] Re: About the mail api, how do developers know if a mail is sent successfully or not?

2011-09-10 Thread Robert Kluin
Yeah this is pretty silly; as Jamie mentioned, you're almost certainly better off using Amazon's service for sending emails. I've never spoke with anyone who regrets switching. As I recall, various Googlers have suggested you might be better off using SES, or other similar services, as well. R

Re: [google-appengine] Re: About the mail api, how do developers know if a mail is sent successfully or not?

2011-09-10 Thread Joshua Smith
Yes, I always use a task to send email for exactly this reason. Easily solved, but really kind of silly. On Sep 10, 2011, at 5:16 PM, JH wrote: > This error was happening a year ago when I used to send gae email. I > get far less urlfetch timeouts when sending via Amazon... If you are > going

[google-appengine] Re: About the mail api, how do developers know if a mail is sent successfully or not?

2011-09-10 Thread JH
This error was happening a year ago when I used to send gae email. I get far less urlfetch timeouts when sending via Amazon... If you are going to email with gae you need to do it via tasks so they will retry. You will continue to see this mail.send timeout. On Sep 10, 2:46 pm, Joshua Smith wro

[google-appengine] Re: About the mail api, how do developers know if a mail is sent successfully or not?

2011-09-10 Thread JH
Google's mail api is rather limited and in my experience subject to being flagged as spam. You may want to try out Amazon's SES. I have used it with great success. They have methods to inform you if an email you sent is returned as undeliverable. They also have a high rate of deliverability. T