[google-appengine] Re: About the mail api again, the surrounding services gae is proud of

2011-09-18 Thread Tapir
I tried sending emails to some fake addresses, but there is no errors thrown and mails bounced. So I can't know if an email is sent successfully or not. If an email is not sent successfully, gae should tell developers what happened, right? On Sep 13, 1:05 am, nischalshetty

[google-appengine] Re: About the mail api again, the surrounding services gae is proud of

2011-09-18 Thread JH
The mail api may not send the email immediately, I'd imagine it hits a queue first. So it can't throw an error on bad email addresses. The only solution is to return bounced emails via the return-path. GAE has never supported sending the user bounced emails. If you need this functionality you

Re: [google-appengine] Re: About the mail api again, the surrounding services gae is proud of

2011-09-18 Thread Nick Johnson
Hi Tapir, There's no way for the mail API to determine if an email address is valid synchronously (before the call returns). If the domain exists and has an MX record, the only way to determine if the address is valid is to send the message to it - and sending email is something that happens

[google-appengine] Re: About the mail api again, the surrounding services gae is proud of

2011-09-12 Thread de Witte
Tapir, We use the same system. After a week we delete all records without activation enabled. Nothing to do about it. Make it clear in the form that the user has to enter a valid email address. We have a rate of 10% not activated. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to

[google-appengine] Re: About the mail api again, the surrounding services gae is proud of

2011-09-12 Thread JH
I like to make people enter their email address twice, like a password. It's amazing how many people misspell their own email. On Sep 12, 9:27 am, de Witte wd.dewi...@gmail.com wrote: Tapir, We use the same system. After a week we delete all records without activation enabled. Nothing to do

[google-appengine] Re: About the mail api again, the surrounding services gae is proud of

2011-09-12 Thread nischalshetty
I had once read in one of the threads here that email from gae gets marked as spam on yahoo. Apart from that, it was also mentioned by one of the GAE devs not to rely on this for mission critical emails. There are other services that would suffice your need. Having said that, have you tried