Perhaps we're all pushing the rock uphill when we really should be letting it roll downhill:
Anyone ever try doing a user registration like this: - Generate a mailto URL with the app as the addressee, and the subject set to a token: mailto:[email protected]?subject=a9b8c7d6e5f - The user clicks that link, and sends the message - Using polling or a channel the page waits for appengine to get their email - When the server gets the mail, you create the registered account - Remind the user what email address they should use to log in, since you know it from their email, and they might not be too clear on what their email address really is (a frighteningly common occurrence, I've noticed) Thoughts? On Oct 26, 2011, at 1:25 AM, Tapir wrote: > Yes, my app has been experiencing this problem for a long time. > Half of my app new users will not activate their accounts. > I found some of them try to register a new account with the last just > created account inactivated. > So I guess they haven't received the activation mails. > > I haven't got a efficient way to fix this problem. > The problem is I don't know whether of not the new users have received > the activation mails. > There is no way to determine whether the activation mails are sent > successfully or not. > > I have put a obvious notification at the top of each page for > inactivated users. > But the rate of activated accounts is still not increased. > > On Oct 25, 8:48 am, Rishi Arora <[email protected]> wrote: >> I have only see this thread on the >> subject:http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine/browse_thread/thread/... >> And the resolution was to move to Amazon SES or other 3rd party email >> service providers. >> >> Anyone experienced this lately, and have any suggestions on how to avoid >> being marked as spam? The emails I generate are mostly "email confirmation" >> type emails, where I generate a 64-byte random string to be used in URL that >> the recipient clicks on to confirm that they are the owner of the said email >> account. The email, in my case, originates from >> [email protected], and I'm setting the reply-to field to my >> google apps domain, which is obviously different from the GAE app domain. >> Perhaps I should not override the "reply-to" field in the header of the >> emails I send. This might be somewhat of an inconvenience in some cases. >> >> Thanks in advance. > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
