Whoops, typo: I meant: Your solution would definitely _not_ work well
at that point!

On Dec 18, 9:31 pm, MajorProgamming <[email protected]> wrote:
> That would work well for a small amount of users. But what if my app
> grows to like 5,000 emails? Your solution would definitely work well
> at that point!
>
> Do you maybe know of an external service that would allow me to set up
> s/t to "broadcast" to many url's or is there another way that i'm
> "missing"?
>
> On Dec 18, 7:43 pm, Alexander Kojevnikov <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > > Suppose one of the features I have on the App I'm creating, is the
> > > ability for users to subscribe for certain "alerts."
>
> > > 1. What would be the best way to implement this considering the
> > > current features available on google app engine (and possibly other
> > > free services)?
>
> > There are two issues to consider:
>
> >  * Calling send_mail() takes time, don't send too many emails in one
> > request.
> >  * If you send too many emails within a short period of time you will
> > get a quota exceeded error, even if you don't reach your daily email
> > quota.
>
> > What I do in my app is the following:
>
> >  * I ping a certain URL from an external box.
> >  * The handler of that URL sends one pending email.
> >  * Wait, rinse, repeat. Time to wait (in seconds) = 24 * 60 * 60 /
> > daily_quota.
>
> > --www.muspy.com
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