What do you get if you specify the rate per second ? Also are you sure each task sends only one email ?
On Jan 15, 5:19 am, Emanuel Berglund <emanuel.bergl...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for your reply, > > Supposedly the bucket_size: should be 1 and not 8 according to this > posthttp://groups.google.co.uk/group/google-appengine/browse_thread/threa... > > But I tried it anyway and it had no effect, it's still sending out about 10 > emails per _second_ in my test, instead of the 8 per minute that I need. > > I don't think the second alternative would work either since there is a time > limit of 30 seconds per request and it would probably trigger a deadline > exceeded > exception.http://groups.google.co.uk/group/google-appengine/browse_thread/threa... > > Surely there must be some way to get App-Engine to send out emails at a > certain rate without hitting the OverQuotaError? Anyone who successfully > implemented it? > > > > On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 7:31 PM, Eli Jones <eli.jo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Why don't you just configure it like so: > > > -name:mail-queue > > rate:8/m > > bucket_size:8 > > > Now.. this is presuming that when you add a task to this mail-queue.. the > > task is configured to send 1 e-mail to 1 recipient. > > > Though, you could create a recursive task queue that would work something > > like this: > > > Let, > > > N = number of recipients > > M = batch number > > > When ready to start emailing.. fire off task: MailTask(1) > > > Where, > > > MailTask(M) = > > 1. Send emails to recipients M, M+1, M+2, ..., M+7 > > 2. If M+8 > N, Goto Step 4. Else Goto Step 3. > > 3. Schedule MailTask(M+8) to run in 61 Seconds > > 4. Success > > > Or you could have it email one recipient at a time and reschedule itself to > > run M+1 in 8 seconds. That way.. if there is an error during the Task and > > it automatically restarts.. you won't get a duplicated email sent out to > > more than one person. > > > Though, you'd also need to give each task a unique name like > > str(M)+"_NewsletterVersion" to ensure that you didn't double up any tasks on > > the off chance that there was a timeout during the Task Add stage (I've had > > this happen.. Task Add timed out.. but the Task had been added.. so the > > previous task started over.. and added the "next" task again. Thus, the > > recursive task had forked into two task streams.) > > > On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 9:49 AM, Emanuel Berglund < > > emanuel.bergl...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> I posted a while back about getting an "OverQuotaError" when sending > >> out 74 emails in quick succession. > >> It turned out I was breaking the 8 emails per second cap, to solve > >> this I was told to use a task queue. > > >> I've now set up a task queue and have created a specific mail queue in > >> my queue.yml for sending emails out. > >> I use the following configuration with the aim to send out 8 emails > >> per minute, and I'm trying to not use the bucket by setting it to 0. > > >> - name: mail-queue > >> rate: 8/m > >> bucket_size: 0 > > >> But, when I run a test and send out emails to 28 people, it seems it's > >> still sending out emails at a very high rate. It sends them out at > >> about 10 emails per second based on the information on the ETA of the > >> tasks in the queue in the live App Engine panel. > > >> This isn't paced out to 8 emails per minute and I'm afraid I might go > >> over my qota and get the OverQuotaError again. Since I am sending out > >> a newsletter I really can't afford to have to restart it again and > >> risk sending the same letter twice to a number of people. > > >> My account doesn't have billing activated but has had the free quota > >> bumped up. > > >> -- > > >> 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-appeng...@googlegroups.com. > >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > >> google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<google-appengine%2bunsubscr...@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-appeng...@googlegroups.com. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<google-appengine%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > > . > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------- > Visit my personal > websites:http://www.musicpilgrimages.comhttp://www.countryplug.com
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