Rather appalling work-around! Glad it worked for you. I hope I don't have to go through that the next time I need to add a developer in order to get a good From address. In my case, the From developer had already been added before we switched our corporate email to gmail. So I haven't been through exactly your situation yet.
Peter, if you file a bug report issue about this, please let me know the number so I can vote for it!!! -Joshua On Aug 26, 2009, at 6:58 AM, plain wrote: > > Hi Joshua, > > thanks for your hints, those helped me a lot. Still if i registered a > developer in the app engine using an email that is hosted inside my > site, no email was sent. > > Specifically i had to temporarily remove the mailserver entries: > > MX 10 ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM. > MX 20 ALT1.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM. > MX 20 ALT2.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM. > MX 30 ASPMX2.GOOGLEMAIL.COM. > MX 30 ASPMX3.GOOGLEMAIL.COM. > MX 30 ASPMX4.GOOGLEMAIL.COM. > MX 30 ASPMX5.GOOGLEMAIL.COM. > > from the domain registration for the developer email domain. Now the > email was really sent by google (after invitation). > > No email was sent otherwise (though it is also correctly configured > inside google). > > Now i have set the domain registration back and can can finally send > emails from inside the google app engine (with a meaningful from > adress) and receive answers to that address (using googles mail > servers inside the app domain). > > Cheers, Peter > > > On Aug 25, 3:22 pm, Joshua Smith <[email protected]> wrote: >> After going through this particular hell, let me save you some time: >> >> Do not attempt to use a google apps account in a GAE application that >> uses google accounts. Inscrutably, google treats google app accounts >> and google accounts completely differently. If you try to use them >> together, very, very weird things start happening. >> >> If you ONLY want to send email with that as a "From" address, this >> formula could work: >> >> 1) Create a google account, and enter the google apps account email >> as >> the address >> 2) Log out from that account >> 3) Log in using your google account >> 4) Now invite that developer >> 5) Log out from google, and log out from google apps >> 6) Log in to google apps as that developer >> 7) Accept the invite >> 8) Never, ever, ever try to use that account for anything else >> >> However, if you can think of a way to use a From: address which is >> either a @gmail.com or some other non-google-apps email, I'd strongly >> recommend it. >> >> On Aug 24, 2009, at 4:27 PM, peter wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >>> Hi there, >> >>> we need to set up a developer (mainly to use this as a from adress >>> for >>> outgoing emails on our portal). >> >>> But the invitation is never sent when using a domain hosted by >>> google >>> sites. >> >>> Email invitations to external domains work! >> >>> Is this a known issue? >> >>> The domain we try to set up istwww.plaincode.com, app id is plain- >>> code >> >>> Thanks so much help! > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
