I'm going to sit in the middle here. We have had several issues with spam filters (including one yesterday), the "from" address is masked for bounce purposes, so our IT staff always spends half an hour trying to figure out why a notice got caught before they remember to search for "*.apphosting.bounces.google.com" instead of "[email protected]" as the sender.
On the flip side it's nice that we don't have to mess with storing credentials for SendGrid, worrying about delay from the trip outside causing timeouts (a lot of our outbound mail is process-intensive and occasionally hits the timeout just from waiting for external data that I need to start caching...), etc. So ultimately, I like having the mail API just because I don't have to change anything and can put the rare issue off on a different department. But I can see where it could be lacking for anyone less staffed or higher volume than us. On Monday, April 4, 2016 at 6:02:09 PM UTC-5, Anastasios Hatzis wrote: > > I agree with you PK. Using Mail API was easy to achieve and never had > trouble with spam filters or anything (unlike with other services). Would > be great if the quotas would be increased significantly, so we could use it > for more than confirmation emails. > > I understand, there are services providing more features (in exchange for > another billing account, credit card exposure, and money), and it's great > to have options available. But in my opinion Mail API is great for what it > is, it just needs higher (paid) quota. > > On Monday, April 4, 2016 at 11:29:31 PM UTC+2, PK wrote: >> >> I want to state that I disagree with Jeff. Whoever maintains the mail >> service is doing a great job and something very useful. Just for the >> record... >> >> Thanks, >> PK >> [email protected] >> >> >> On Apr 4, 2016, at 2:00 PM, Jeff Schnitzer <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> My only concern is getting the Mail API turned off as soon as possible so >> whoever is working on it can go do something more useful :-) >> >> Jeff >> >> On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 8:37 AM, Nick (Cloud Platform Support) < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hey Jeff, >>> >>> While in this case, failure of sending was coming from an unexpected >>> direction, prompting engineering action to fix the issue, and leading to >>> our recommendations to run test emails before any campaigns, there does >>> exist a bounce notification feature >>> <https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/python/mail/bounce> which can >>> be used to detect the most common email failures. I hope this helps ease >>> your concerns. >>> >>> Best wishes, >>> >>> Nick >>> Cloud Platform Community Support >>> >>> On Sunday, April 3, 2016 at 12:04:12 PM UTC-4, Jeff Schnitzer wrote: >>>> >>>> On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 8:24 AM, Rob Williams <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> The App Engine Mail API is fully featured and fully documented. >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> I hate hearing people say things like this. The _bare minimum_ expected >>>> of a service that delivers email is some tracking of whether or not that >>>> email was delivered. If you actually care about whether your customers >>>> receive the email you are sending, you should not be using the App Engine >>>> Mail API. It is not “fully featured”. >>>> >>>> Jeff >>>> >>> >> >> -- >> 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 https://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/CADK-0ugPR63z9OgLShEtYqqz7OOBNxB5Ya4C6BpmdeHdtQ2v6g%40mail.gmail.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/CADK-0ugPR63z9OgLShEtYqqz7OOBNxB5Ya4C6BpmdeHdtQ2v6g%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. 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/6684ca4d-40d7-4992-ac01-c20144a7c2e7%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
