I'm not the best person to provide a comparison between services because we've only tried Sendgrid. That said, they've been excellent for our needs - we've sent just shy of 2 million mails via them so far.
Stephen On Thursday, 19 July 2012 05:32:11 UTC+1, Vivek Kumar wrote: > > hie can some one help us on suggesting third party emails systems which > are good to go to integrate with app engine? > > Vik > > On Thursday, 12 July 2012 22:51:24 UTC-7, Vivek Kumar wrote: >> >> 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 <[email protected]> >>> 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 [email protected]. >>> >>> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> > [email protected]. >>> > 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/-/gwKTwZsdkIoJ. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
