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 
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