Does anyone know of a good alternative to app-engine-patch (http://code.google.com/p/app-engine-patch/) if you want to use Django to develop on GAE?
App Engine can finally receive mail. [bonus: delete your app as well]
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Re: App Engine can finally receive mail. [bonus: delete your app as well]
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It's unfortunate that once deleted, names can't be reused by someone else. I imagine this has something to do with their security model.
Why is the name important? Won't you be connecting it to your own domain name anyway?
I guess if you had some clients to that app still out there (say, installed apps) somewhere, server gets deleted, but clients then try to connect to it - in the meantime someone has snapped up the name/URL and is collecting data from unsuspecting clients.
At least that is what popped into my mind.
Re: App Engine can finally receive mail. [bonus: delete your app as well]
#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why is the name important? Won't you be connecting it to your own domain name anyway?
There are still a few details, such as not being able to do https through your own domain (and apparently even for this new feature your app can only receive e-mail at your appspot domain) that may still make having a good appspot name important.
It shouldn't be too difficult to simply set up your own email and then forward it to the app email.
Re: App Engine can finally receive mail. [bonus: delete your app as well]
#24Does anyone know of a good alternative to app-engine-patch ( http://code.google.com/p/app-engine-patch/ ) if you want to use Django to develop on GAE?
Yes, you can use Django trunk if you do like this:
http://lethain.com/entry/2009/mar/05/deploying-django-spring...
Re: App Engine can finally receive mail. [bonus: delete your app as well]
#25I wonder if GAE will ever offer SMS support, like an open gateway. That would be pretty awesome for what we're working on.
Re: App Engine can finally receive mail. [bonus: delete your app as well]
#26Receiving email, that's great. One question: Is this a simple thing to setup for yourself (outside of GAE)?
I'd been wanting to do something like this for a while, converting an email to e.g. JSON. But I haven't found too much info on the subject..
Re: App Engine can finally receive mail. [bonus: delete your app as well]
#27Does anyone know of a good alternative to app-engine-patch ( http://code.google.com/p/app-engine-patch/ ) if you want to use Django to develop on GAE?
Yes, you can use Django trunk if you do like this: http://lethain.com/entry/2009/mar/05/deploying-django-spring...
Thanks for the tip, but I was looking for a solution that would allow me to reuse contrib.auth and contrib.admin apps.
Please vote here for an AppEngine native Django support: http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers/browse_thre...
Re: App Engine can finally receive mail. [bonus: delete your app as well]
#28AppEngine is pretty much awesome when you want to reduce web portal hosting costs. I am rewriting/augmenting a Rails web app in JRuby + Sinatra + DataMapper so it will run well on either Java AppEngine or one of my own servers using (C)Ruby. If my project gets a lot of users I would like to keep my costs down. (I usually deploy to Amazon AWS, but if you can live within the AppEngine restrictions, then AppEngine is even cheaper than Amazon.)
The ability of receiving email sounds good, but I usually only use this for new account verification - with AppEngine you can just use Google accounts.