Re: [google-appengine] Re: email sent by GAE would be regarded as spam for some email services

2011-04-19 Thread Nathan Gray
Thanks Ikai, it's good to know that the issue will be considered. On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Ikai Lan (Google) ika...@google.com wrote: Points taken. I'll bring up the issue next chance I get. I can't make any promises though, because some things that should be easy are actually really

[google-appengine] Re: email sent by GAE would be regarded as spam for some email services

2011-04-19 Thread Greg
AWESOME! This is my biggest issue at the moment - something like 25% of my customers use Yahoo Mail, and don't receive emails they have requested. DKIM will solve the problem, because I've got it working on Google Apps for the same email addresses, and those messages get through. I know this is

Re: [google-appengine] Re: email sent by GAE would be regarded as spam for some email services

2011-04-18 Thread Ikai Lan (Google)
Points taken. I'll bring up the issue next chance I get. I can't make any promises though, because some things that should be easy are actually really difficult. Ikai Lan Developer Programs Engineer, Google App Engine Blog: http://googleappengine.blogspot.com Twitter:

Re: [google-appengine] Re: email sent by GAE would be regarded as spam for some email services

2011-04-16 Thread n8gray
Ikai, I totally understand that you guys want to focus on the interesting parts of the problem, but you could make one really simple change that would probably *solve* the problem for most of your users: allow us to set the DKIM header on outgoing mail. All it would require is allowing write

Re: [google-appengine] Re: email sent by GAE would be regarded as spam for some email services

2011-04-16 Thread Adam Sah
Ikai-- totally agree re:bulk email, but please please please add DKIM, which (I'm told) is 90% of the solution for enterprise/extranet apps that need to use email for workflow. The Big Reason I chose AppEngine was to get an integrated solution from one vendor: forcing me to use multiple vendors

[google-appengine] Re: email sent by GAE would be regarded as spam for some email services

2011-04-16 Thread nickmilon
+1 On Apr 16, 9:02 pm, n8gray n8g...@gmail.com wrote: Ikai, I totally understand that you guys want to focus on the interesting parts of the problem, but you could make one really simple change that would probably *solve* the problem for most of your users: allow us to set the DKIM header

[google-appengine] Re: email sent by GAE would be regarded as spam for some email services

2011-04-16 Thread nickmilon
+1 On Apr 16, 10:06 pm, Adam Sah adam@gmail.com wrote: Ikai-- totally agree re:bulk email, but please please please add DKIM, which (I'm told) is 90% of the solution for enterprise/extranet apps that need to use email for workflow.  The Big Reason I chose AppEngine was to get an

Re: [google-appengine] Re: email sent by GAE would be regarded as spam for some email services

2011-03-24 Thread Ikai Lan (Google)
It's not an ideal situation, I agree. However - we're just not at capacity to deal with negotiating with email providers, policing policy violations, and so forth. Providing an email service isn't anywhere near as trivial as people think. We don't want App Engine to become a mass emailing service

[google-appengine] Re: email sent by GAE would be regarded as spam for some email services

2011-03-24 Thread nickmilon
@Icai I agree on most of what you write above, and I understand that you prefer to focus on more important things, also having run Email services for enterprises in the past I do know it is not trivial. But still I believe Email service is a major asset for GAE and dropping it (or anything

Re: [google-appengine] Re: email sent by GAE would be regarded as spam for some email services

2011-03-23 Thread Ikai Lan (Google)
That sounds like a good idea. There's a good chance we'll change the quotas for email sometime in the near future. When we do that it would make sense for us to document that we do not suggest App Engine as a service for sending large amounts of email, and for reliable email delivery, to look at

[google-appengine] Re: email sent by GAE would be regarded as spam for some email services

2011-03-23 Thread nickmilon
IMHO it is not a good policy for GAE to abandon(?) services middle way instead of improving - enhancing those. ;-( Regards Nick On Mar 23, 7:31 pm, Ikai Lan (Google) ika...@google.com wrote: That sounds like a good idea. There's a good chance we'll change the quotas for email sometime in the

Re: [google-appengine] Re: email sent by GAE would be regarded as spam for some email services

2011-03-22 Thread Eric Ka Ka Ng
me 2. Have integrated the SES service within our GAE apps. work good and solved our problems sure it would be more nice if GAE can provide email service at the quality level similar to the Amazon SES one (at least would not be classified as SPAM), so we dont need to manage both . could we make

Re: [google-appengine] Re: email sent by GAE would be regarded as spam for some email services

2011-03-22 Thread Ikai Lan (Google)
I actually think we are moving away from this direction. For customers sending large volumes of email or who require delivery guarantees, we'll be encouraging the use of services that are specifically designed for this functionality. Ikai Lan Developer Programs Engineer, Google App Engine Blog:

[google-appengine] Re: email sent by GAE would be regarded as spam for some email services

2011-03-22 Thread Jamie H
Ikai, On that note, do you have any services besides SES that you recommend? SES works well with GAE however you must slowly up your quotas, forcing you to send some mail via SES and some through GAE until your quotas are adjusted high enough... On Mar 22, 4:29 pm, Ikai Lan (Google)

Re: [google-appengine] Re: email sent by GAE would be regarded as spam for some email services

2011-03-22 Thread James Broberg
SendLabs is another option: http://dyn.com/enterprise-email/sendlabs-solutions On 23 March 2011 09:57, Jamie H ja...@mhztech.com wrote: Ikai, On that note, do you have any services besides SES that you recommend?  SES works well with GAE however you must slowly up your quotas, forcing you

Re: [google-appengine] Re: email sent by GAE would be regarded as spam for some email services

2011-03-22 Thread Eric Ka Ka Ng
Hi Ikai, thx for your note. with this, we could better decide on which cases we would like to send emails through GAE and which we would like to use other external services. and would it be more formally stated in any documents, or any guideline for these considerations be documented? if i'm a

[google-appengine] Re: email sent by GAE would be regarded as spam for some email services

2011-03-21 Thread Ernesto Karim Oltra
I use too random directions for each user.This means, I take its user.user_id(), build sha1, and send e-mail to each user from directions like that: alert-[user]@[app].appspotmail.com I think you have to enable inbound email for this to work, but i'm not sure. This is the method I have seen in

[google-appengine] Re: email sent by GAE would be regarded as spam for some email services

2011-03-21 Thread Jamie H
Wow, great idea! I have been having some delivery issues lately with GAE and looking for an alternative. I just downloaded a pythong Amazon SES library, signed up for SES, and put it all together and it works like a charm with GAE! On Mar 20, 10:31 pm, Nickolas Daskalou n...@daskalou.com wrote:

Re: [google-appengine] Re: email sent by GAE would be regarded as spam for some email services

2011-03-20 Thread Eric Ka Ka Ng
Hi Ernesto, thx for your suggestion! yes, i think it shall work. but in general if we can't ask all our users to add our email to their contact list (or they are not willing to do so), how can emails sent by us prevent to be regarded as spam? all our subject, body etc. are nothing spam-liked,

Re: [google-appengine] Re: email sent by GAE would be regarded as spam for some email services

2011-03-20 Thread Nickolas Daskalou
Hi Eric, Have you looked at Amazon's Simple Email Service (SES)? http://aws.amazon.com/ses/ Pretty much the same cost as sending email using GAE, except with SES you only get 2,000 free emails if you're sending email from an EC2 instance. I haven't used it myself but apparently they scan

[google-appengine] Re: email sent by GAE would be regarded as spam for some email services

2011-03-18 Thread Ernesto Karim Oltra
Ask the user to add the e-mail from address of your e-mails to their contacts list, so your e-mails would never been sent to spam again (for that users, at least). It's a bit hacky, but can do a great work meanwhile you find another solution. On 18 mar, 07:52, Eric Ka Ka Ng ngk...@gmail.com