Hi Rafael, my reading from using and following GAE/GCP for a long time is that on the 2nd-3rd year of GAE they realized that they were trying to do too much and decided to de-emphasize and partner for a number of services including the mail service—it fell into "we wish we had not launched this service" category. In my opinion, this was a mistake and the wrong decision. You can probably partner for text messaging and nobody will notice but e-mail is a first tier service because it has tight dependencies on other first tier services (like storing big messages in a GCS/S3 solution in the same network).
In any case, when you go past the administrative overhead you will find that many aspects of the GAE mail service work really well. They just ignore fixing some annoying bugs and adding new features but this is not uniq to the mail service. Best > On Dec 10, 2015, at 12:39 PM, Rafael Darder <[email protected]> wrote: > > @Patrice, Thanks for your honest answer, appreciate it. > @Miguel, thanks for your suggestion. I think they're all good alternatives, > I'm on my way migrating out of app engine for outgoing email. > > Email is perhaps by far the simplest of all the cloud platform services, so > my rant here has to do less with email solutions and more to do with the > administrative issues I found for resolving something I assumed so simple. > > 1- The unreasonably low emails/day quota, compared with all the other quotas. > 2- the fact that unlike _all_ other quotas, the emails/day quota does not > increase automatically when you set up billing for your project. > 3- the lack of an ETA on when a manual quota increase request is going to be > processed > 4- the lack of a customer channel for getting to the groups that would be > able to resolve this in a minute and also receive feedback on the problem > source. > > Thanks all for your help, appreciate it. > > On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 1:53 PM, Miguel Vitorino <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > Hi Rafael, > > We use Amazon SES with AppEngine and works very well. You can setup SNS > topics with HTTPS webhook calls to your GAE for unsubscribes, bounces, etc. > > > On Wednesday, December 9, 2015 at 2:56:03 PM UTC, Rafael Darder wrote: > Hi, > I requested an email quota increase two days ago, which is pending approval. > From what I've read in this forum, it may take weeks. > The project has billing enabled, but falls within the free tier. I just tried > the same request on another billing enabled project and it got approved > instantly. The only difference is that this other project exceeds the free > tier. I suspect is has something to do. > Is there anything I can do make the approval happen today? > Thanks > Rafael > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the Google > Groups "Google App Engine" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/google-appengine/z-sFDDke2MU/unsubscribe > <https://groups.google.com/d/topic/google-appengine/z-sFDDke2MU/unsubscribe>. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine > <http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine>. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/e9b987df-b110-424e-a9b3-2fd063a57f4f%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/e9b987df-b110-424e-a9b3-2fd063a57f4f%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine > <http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine>. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/CA%2BmR5QD0xj3KYmF6d8Ds7EzwP-zyWJc_pWyok2X861C%2BDX41ow%40mail.gmail.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/CA%2BmR5QD0xj3KYmF6d8Ds7EzwP-zyWJc_pWyok2X861C%2BDX41ow%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. PK [email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/EA194999-980E-4162-972B-B9318E69E137%40gae123.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
