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google-app-engine
FoxyLad
FoxyLad

Reputation: 1626

Validating Sender Addresses in Appengine

My app needs to send emails from several addresses: noreply@, accounts@ and support@, for instance. Now I'm setting up country-specific domains.

To send emails from Appengine, the sender address has to be a registered admin. To become an admin, you need to have a Google Apps account. But it appears you can't use aliases ("nicknames") - when you click the invite link, you have to log in, which you can't do as an alias. I think this also means I can't set up the country-specific domains as alias domains in Google Apps.

I'm not a cheapskate, but paying $50 per account (three accounts times five domains - $2,250) per year purely to validate the sender addresses is a bit rich. Am I missing something blindingly obvious?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 161

Answers (1)

Alexis
Alexis

Reputation: 517

Unfortunately that's how it currently works. From what I understand GAE team is working on alternate solutions and while they figure out something they offer an AppEngine credit. But that only works once per App.

We handle this by using an external service (SendGrid, that introduced a pay-as-you-go offer with the same pricing as AppEngine). However if you want full DKIM or other features it becomes much more expensive.

Upvotes: 2

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