*Hi All, We’ve been seeing a lot of questions on the groups about the new quota elevation procedure for the Mail API and I wanted to take a moment to clarify what we’re doing and why we’re doing it.
As of 1.6.2, applications with billing enabled must clear at least one charge before the Mail API quota is raised beyond the free quota of 100 messages sent per day. Once the first charge is cleared, messages beyond the first 100 sent are charged at the normal rate. You do not need to pre-pay the Mail API or set your budget any differently than you normally would. As I’m sure you can imagine, a mail service with a free quota is a potential gold mine for spammers. In the past few months we’ve been taking many steps to improve the experience for our Mail API users by adding DKIM and including better spam detection so as to improve the overall domain reputation for all apps sending mail using the Mail API. Another part of these changes is to require applications to successfully clear a charge in order to send mail over the free quota, as noted above. As a result of these changes, we’ve seen definite improvements which benefit all of our mail senders through improved domain reputation. We recognize that this change has caught some developers off-guard and we apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you. We’ve added a section to the Mail API overview page<https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/python/mail/overview#Quotas_and_Limits>, as well as the existing documentation on the Quotas and Limits page,<https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/quotas#Mail>to more clearly explain the quota increase process. We appreciate your patience and continued support of App Engine, if you have any comments about the Mail API, please let us know by filling out our Mail API feedback survey<https://docs.google.com/a/google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHFXM0tlNlAwQ0JueTRCR1RhcDZWcEE6MQ> . Regards, Christina Ilvento, Product Manager for the Mail API* -- 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.
