Can I build mailing list software on Google App Engine?

Question

I tried to search if it's legal or GAE will be able to support sending/receiving email just fine with mailing list kind of operation -- but so far I couldn't find anything useful.

Do you know if this is permissible or possible? Or even a good idea?

I'm thinking simple mailing list software for a single owner.

Answer 1

Yes you can build that, and in the GAE documentation is a good chapter about how to do that:

http://code.google.com/intl/de-DE/appengine/docs/java/mail/overview.html

If the fairly high quotas for sending mail:

http://code.google.com/intl/de-DE/appengine/docs/quotas.html#Mail

are not enough, you can ask for an increase. Not sure if that will cost you money.