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Guerrilla
Guerrilla

Reputation: 14856

Google Application Engine For Sending Emails

I have a newsletter with 13k subscribers. I would like to use Google to send the newsletter instead of the free edition of mailenable I am using currently.

The main thing that has put me off is the 2,000/day sending limit as it would take a week to send out a bi weekly newsletter which may have time sensitive information in it.

I saw a post here that said you can send over the 2,000/day limit if you use the GAE.

I went to the GAE page and had a look at the limits and it does say that you can make 1,700,000 email queries. However, I called the Google apps sales team and they said Google says anything above 2,000 emails is spam and has no legitimate purpose (I had the feeling though that the person I was talking to was poorly trained and had no idea what the GAE was).

So would I need to create my own google app that acts like a SMTP server and uses the GAE to send the email? Would this be the same as sending through Google Apps, i.e. DKIM header added and trusted IP?

Any help anyone can give me is greatly appreciated.

Many thanks in advance.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 600

Answers (2)

Nick Johnson
Nick Johnson

Reputation: 101139

Billed applications can indeed send more than the default daily free limit of emails with App Engine. Once you have enabled billing, you can choose how much quota you want to dedicate to your app, including email sending.

Upvotes: 0

Shay Erlichmen
Shay Erlichmen

Reputation: 31928

From my experience GAE is a very bad platform to send bulk emails.
For a long time it didn't support DKIM or Sender Id, its hard to mange bounces, and on top of everything you need to write your own framework for bulk sending using tasks or backends. The cost of instances time for sending those emails might even double your cost (in $$$) for sending the newsletter.

We choose to go with Mailchimp which is IMHO the best tool for sending bulk newsletters.

Upvotes: 4

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