I’m *very* happy to see this announcement. There’s no technical advantage to having mail builtin to GAE and it’s a waste of developer resources that would be better spent building the things that aren’t cheap commodity services. I want new features for the datastore, a more responsive console, Java8, etc. Or cheaper instances. These are things that only Google can give me. I can (and have) switched email service providers in an hour.
The GAE mail service sucks. It’s funny that someone is commenting on the deliverability of SendGrid because you have _no idea_ what the deliverability of GAE mail. GAE doesn’t report those statistics, which is its first major failing (among many). Don’t like SendGrid? Use MailGun or Elasticemail or any of the literally hundreds of others that are merely an HTTP call away. I would love to see all the crufty bits of GAE pruned (XMPP, I hope you’re next). I want GAE to do a handful of critical things really well rather than a lot of commodity things poorly. Jeff On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 12:28 AM, Nick <naoku...@gmail.com> wrote: > Every native API offered on appengine has commercial saas alternatives, > and almost all of them are highly competitive and more fully fledged. The > value of appengine lies in the great integration and easy access, and the > assumption that they will improve over time. > > Why is mail so special that it can't 'just work'? > Google obviously has awesome existing infrastructure for it, and it's such > a bedrock of cloud systems that pretty much every app on appengine probably > uses it in some capacity. > > I would also say that having had to resort to sendgrid integration from > appengine, it was a frustrating experience, not least taking days to get to > the point I could send emails. > > This is a pretty disappointing announcement. > > -- > 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 google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/a1ef9ea2-22ef-491f-9aee-6e04536f7169%40googlegroups.com > . > For more options, visit 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 google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/CADK-0ujs%3D6ZNMLd8RJyE%3Dowp-LD1V4e72_ROX-0zvYTRmJz%3Dzg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
