I own a domain, call it myDomain.com, which currently masks a Google App Engine project. I have multiple alias email addresses associated with this domain, e.g. rsvp#myDomain.com, that are all set up to forward to my Gmail account. I am unable to ever authorize these aliased email accounts as Editors of my Google App via the Developer's Console because Google always sees the aliased email as my Gmail account and says...
You are already a member of this project, you cannot accept this
invitation.
...whenever I attempt to accept the invite to Edit.
Thus when I attempt to send an email via an aliased email from my deployed app, I get an InvalidSenderError: Unauthorized sender error.
Is it possible to use my domain's aliased emails to send emails from my app if they are forwarding to the same account that deployed the app? I will try an experiment this evening where I use a different forwarding email account, but this is not sustainable, as I would like to have many (>10) aliased email addresses.
Thanks!
Unfortunately, you can't send from email aliases using the built in mail service in GAE. It must be a a full user with developer access to that project.
We switched over to using The SendGrid integration for much the same reason.
There is a built in library for it in GAE and you and get a free SG account for low volume. Check out docs at https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/python/mail/sendgrid for more info.
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I am trying to add a email sender account in Google App Engine. The domain is not a google apps domain.
When I try to add the account as an IAM user, it says the account must have a google account. When I try to make a Google account, it forces me to make a #gmail account as part of it.
Once all that was said and done, I am able to add my new email domain into IAM, but as soon as I save and refresh the page - it shows the #gmail alias I created. It won't let me add my own domain as an email sender because only the #gmail is in IAM.
Is this broken?
UPDATED
Turns out that I accidentally assigned a gmail account to the Google account as well and that was overriding the name. I went into the google account and removed Gmail from the products list and I was able to add the subdomain in IAM and as a valid sender.
Not broken, just working as documented. From Who can send mail:
For security purposes, the sender address of a message must be one of
the following:
The Gmail or G Suite Account of the user who is currently signed in
Any email address of the form anything#[APP_NAME].appspotmail.com or anything#[APP_ALIAS].appspotmail.com
Any email address listed in the GCP Console under Email API Authorized Senders
All email addresses on the Email API Authorized Senders list need
to be valid Gmail or Google-hosted domain accounts.
One option would be to get your domain under Google domain hosting or G-Suite, thus meeting one of the quoted restrictions, donno if that's acceptable for you.
These sender address restrictions and other restrictions associated with sending email through the GAE Mail API) are probably not applicable if sending email through one of the Google's 3rd party email provider services: Mailgun, Mailjet and SendGrid. At least such restrictions are not mentioned in these docs. So that could be another option to consider.
I have a App Engine Python application that I'd like to send an occasional automated email.
In the past, with a different application, I was able to set the default service account (e.g. my-project-id#appspot.gserviceaccount.com) as an authorized Email API sender on the App Engine settings page:
https://console.cloud.google.com/appengine/settings?project=my-project-id
Now, when I add the service account email and push "Save" button, I get a pop-up notification that says "Saving settings..." then nothing.
I got the default service account value from the IAM & Admin page:
https://console.cloud.google.com/iam-admin/iam/project?project=my-project-id
I have even added the App Engine roles to the App Engine default service account member.
Note: I was able to make my personal email account which owns the project an authorized sender and successfully send emails. But I would prefer to send API emails with the App Engine service account.
So apparently I was overcomplicating this. In my older project, I had the project's default App Engine service account added as an authorized sender as described in the question. It seems this is neither necessary or even any longer possible.
To send emails using the App Engine Mail API from an App Engine project account, simply set the sender value in your code to an address formatted like so: any-name#my-project-id.appspotmail.com.
For example:
mail.send_mail(sender='no-reply#my-project-id.appspotmail.com',
to='user#example.com',
subject='App Engine Mail API Test',
body='Please do not reply.')
This is stated correctly in the App Engine documentation:
Who can send mail
For security purposes, the sender address of a message must be one of the following:
The Gmail or Google Apps Account of the user who is currently signed in
Any email address of the form anything#[APP_NAME].appspotmail.com or anything#[APP_ALIAS].appspotmail.com
Any email address listed in the Cloud Platform Console under Email API Authorized Senders
I want to send emails using python on GAE, so edited "Email API authorized senders" in:
https://console.developers.google.com/project/MY_PROJECT/appengine/settings
under "Email API authorized senders", I added support#mydomain.com (where mydomain.com is registered via google domain, and linked to MY_PROJECT)
I got a message saying I don't have enough privilege to make this change. Any idea why? Thanks so much.
The documentation says
All email addresses on the Email API Authorized Senders list need to
be valid Gmail or Google-hosted domain Accounts. There are
restrictions on who can add whom to the Email API Authorized Senders
list:
Application administrators can add themselves
Application administrators for applications hosted in a Google Apps domain can add
noreply#domain.com, as long as noreply#domain.com is a valid account
Domain administrators of domains managed by Google Apps can add any
user in their domain
So you would need to be a Google Apps admin and the user you're trying to add must also exist in Google Apps. Sadly the documenation doesn't mention groups in the Apps domain which would be quite useful.
I am the admin of a Google domain and I need to he able to read users emails in my php app. How is this possible? I have tried to use IMAP but it won't even connect. Is there something special that apps have to do?
Here is a list of all the ways to read a user's Gmail mailbox, outside of App Engine :
IMAP, as you said. Provided it is enabled on your domain. Most of our customers disable it for security reasons (no audit trace of the connections).
Apps Script, but it requires the user's consent, even if you're an admin
The Email Audit API, but an Email extraction takes approximately 2 weeks (no kidding)
If IMAP is enabled on your domain, then it's the best choice. However, by default GAE does not allow outgoing connections apart from HTTP requests. The workaround for this limitation is the Sockets API, currently in preview. You can check it out here.
Note that you will also need to use an OAuth2 service account (domain-wide delegation) and IMAP-XOAuth2 to authenticate with the IMAP protocol.
Referring to the following document about sending email in Google App Engine:
https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/python/mail/sendingmail
It says that the email sender (i.e., From address) may be:
Any valid email receiving address of a domain account, such as support#example.com. Domain accounts are accounts outside of the Google domain with email addresses that do not end in #gmail.com or #APP-ID.appspotmail.com.
This seems to be imply that as long as my domain mycompany.com is a Google Apps domain and I've added to my my Google Apps CPanel as a service, that I would be able to send an email from any arbitrary address that is not an existing user, such as: whatever#mycompany.com. Note that I do not have the app's authentication type set up as "Google Apps Domain" but rather as "Google Accounts API".
However, this is not working as such. I am only able to send email if it is an existing Google Apps user and is registered with the app as an administrator.
Please clarify. Thanks.
You should continue reading right after the sentence you quoted:
Any valid email receiving address of a domain account, such as support#example.com. Domain accounts are accounts outside of the Google domain with email addresses that do not end in #gmail.com or #APP-ID.appspotmail.com.
To send an email from an existing domain account, add the domain account as a Developer to your application using the Administration Console. The account is then sent an email with an invite to develop the application, which you must accept to add the account to the application.
So you still need to add the domain user under GAE Admin -> Permissions.