How do I send email from Google App Engine with a random, non-app admin sender using a custom domain name (e.g. xyz#myshop.com ) ? We need to allow the users of our website to communicate with each other through a custom made messaging system but also allow them to reply directly from their email. Something similar with the craigslist system. However seems that GAE doesn't allow us to send email from an address that is not admin. Is there any workaround / patch ? We are the owner of myshop.com domain name (verified through google apps) so I don't see why a such thing is not allowed.
While you can't use just any random address, you can use a registered administrator address with a '+' suffix. So you could send the mail with a 'from' of, say, message-reply+HASH_VALUE#myshop.com. Then your app will receive the reply, and can use the hash to decide which user to forward the mail to.
How about sending the email from your admin account, but adding a reply-to header, specifying the user's email-address?
Google doesn't allow to use random addresses. You can star this bug.
http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3069
However, since the users are apparently registered with Google Apps, the system can send emails on their behalf when they are signed into your application.
The sender address must be one of the following types:
...
The address of the user for the current request signed in with a
Google Account. You can determine the current user's email address
with the Users API. The user's account must be a Gmail account, or be
on a domain managed by Google Apps.
http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/mail/emailmessagefields.html
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I'm trying to change "When replying to a message" (card "Accounts", section "Send mail as") to "Reply from the same address to which the message was sent" in Gmail Settings" by Gmail API (using service account that was delegated domain-wide authority) and I cannot find it in the docs (https://developers.google.com/gmail/api/v1/reference/users/settings/sendAs).
To explain why I want to do this: I'm adding certain role based Google Groups my users are member of to their send email as preferences (by the service account with domain wide authority). For example, users responsible for dealing with legal# address are member of Google Group called legal and they have legal mails in their mailbox. When responsible users change, I just change the membership and new users receive the mails. The problem is that just the first email comes to legal# and reply goes from john.smith# for example. Because of that, I decided to have them reply from legal#, so those who requests something from Legal Departament knows they are communicating with whole Legal Departament and not Mr Smith only. But when Gmail doesn't automatically choose correct address when replying to the legal mail, it doesn't do what I'm trying to do.
It doesn't matter for me if I change it in admin console or by script running on all users. I wasn't able to use any of those ways.
Thank you for your help,
Martin
I'm pretty certain that Gmail setting ("always reply from xx#yy, or reply from the same address to which the message is sent") is not available in the Gmail API. It really is a client-side issue, since the email client chooses the "From:" line when composing each message or reply.
For your issue, you should be able to use Google groups as a collaborative inbox, see: https://support.google.com/a/answer/167430?hl=en
This user note explains your use case, see: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/apps/siprUn9Nm9g
Here's the situation: I have successfully set up email to come from a custom domain on App Engine before, but that was always done through the Google Apps for Business set up process. This time I have added the custom domain through the new developers console instead (https://console.developers.google.com/project/[APP_ID]/appengine/settings/domains) and now I'm getting the "unauthorized sender" error every time.
I've tried a lot of variations on the set up process, checked for typos or other potential bugs repeatedly, and scoured both the docs and Stack Overflow without finding an answer. Most of the docs and answers that come up seem woefully out of date. The docs hardly ever reference the new developer console or the fact that Google Apps for Business doesn't have a free tier any more. And most of the answers seem to ignore the fact that the docs (https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/python/mail/sendingmail) explicitly state that "Domain accounts do not need to be explicitly verified, since you will have verified the domain during the registration process."
So has anyone actually gotten domain accounts to work with the new process? Do I have to modify DNS records? DKIM? Something else I'm missing? Any insight would be much appreciated.
As stated in the docs:
For security purposes, the sender address of a message must be the
email address of an administrator for the application or any valid
email receiving address for the app (see Receiving Mail). The sender
can also be the Google Account email address of the current user who
is signed in, if the user's account is a Gmail account or is on a
domain managed by Google Apps.
So only logged in Google accounts or admin (owners in the new console) addresses can be used to send emails through GAE. If you want to use a set of custom domain addresses you can either:
1) Add and validate all those addresses as owners in the project's "permissions" settings.
2) Use as external party to send your emails through a Web API, EG Sendgrid which gives you 25.000 emails/month for free for GAE developers (https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/python/mail/sendgrid)
What I have done:
I have added my domain app.mydomain.com to my app engine project, and can successfully visit id.appspot.com using app.mydomain.com.
I have registered mydomain.com on google app for business.
The problem:
The problem is -- I am NOT able to send emails using #mydomain.com address. If I register an info#mydomain.com as an developer, this will probably solve the problem, but we need to send from more than one address, and I don't think registering a new developer for each address is reasonable.
Anybody knows how to solve this? Thanks!
You have two options:
Register all emails that you want to use as administrators/developers but as you mentioned in your post you don't want to do that.
Use SendGrid (or any other email services like Mandrill, Mailgun, etc.) which will give you a lot more features comparing to what GAE offers, including 25k free emails instead of GAE's 100.
According to the docs, the sender would need to be an administrator on the project (called "owner" in the new Developers Console). Another route would be to just use a separate email sending service like SendGrid or Postmark.
You can use the GMail API to send emails as users of your domain. Note that the emails need to be aliases, groups or users of your domain.
You shouldn't have any problem adding and verifying your domain, adding the necessary permissions to send emails. Then, every email address in your domain can be used. See here in the docs: https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/java/mail/#Java_Sending_mail
mydomain.com is Google Apps linked to my GAE application (and verified). Currently only one user is allowed at custom domains, so I've registered admin#mydomain.com. Now, I would like to send emails from noreply#mydomain.com. I try to add this user as Developer in Permissions section of my GAE application, it sends the message (which I actually receive at admin#mydomain.com), I accept the invitation as admin#mydomain.com, but it doesn't help.
So, how to send emails from noreply#mydomain.com?
You can enable the trial (lasts for 30 days) and add as many users as you want. You can send emails to them to accept the invitations in GAE and after accepting them you can delete these users to fall back in the free version with only one user.
I have not been able to test the below, as I don't have the new single account Google Apps.
It all depends on if you still want the admin#domain.com user. If not I suggest the following;
For safety link a non-domain email as an owner to your App Engine application
Rename your current Google Apps user from admin to noreply
You should be able to send emails as noreply#domain.com.
If you still want admin#domain.com, maybe you can create an alias for the noreply account?
I'd like to have emails to a given domain, say http://mydomain.com/, processed by an AppEngine app, let's call it http://emailprocessor.appspot.com/ .
That is, an email to "hello#mydomain.com" should be received and processed by emailprocessor.appspot.com as if it was an email to "hello#emailprocessor.appspot.com" .
I imagine I could do this via MX records for my mydomain.com domain, but I can't find instructions anywhere.
Is this possible, and if so does one set it up?
Also there is no direct support for this according to documentation
BUT
if your http://mydomain.com/ hosted on google apps and you create user hello#mydomain.com as gmail account and in it configure email forwarding rule to the "hello#emailprocessor.appspotmail.com" it should work as it works for any general gmail account email forwarding. It preserves original headers like sender etc.
I almost sure that most of other mail services or servers can support this feature. check documentation of your mail service.
PAY ATTENTION! it must be emailprocessor.appspotmail.com note the appspotmail.com not appspot.com
I did not try it myself yet so I will be happy if you confirm that this works. Again it should.
What I have done is to point the MX record to a server that allows you to do email domain forwarding. Then you can forward all emails to emailprocessor.appspotmail.com.
The advantage of this is that you catch all usernames: hello#mydomain.com, goodbye#mydomain.com, etc...
If your host has cPanel see this: http://www.siteground.com/tutorials/email/email_domain_forwarding.htm
No, there's no documented support for receiving mail on a custom domain.
You would need to host mail elsewhere and configure a forwarder to emailprocessor.appspotmail.com.