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Python for Google App Engine

You're reading from   Python for Google App Engine Master the full range of development features provided by Google App Engine to build and run scalable web applications in Python

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781784398194
Length 198 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Massimiliano Pippi Massimiliano Pippi
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Preface 1. Getting Started FREE CHAPTER 2. A More Complex Application 3. Storing and Processing Users' Data 4. Improving Application Performance 5. Storing Data in Google Cloud SQL 6. Using Channels to Implement a Real-time Application 7. Building an Application with Django 8. Exposing a REST API with Google Cloud Endpoints Index

Receiving users' data as e-mail messages

A less common but useful feature for a web application is the ability to receive e-mail messages from its users: for example, a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) application could open a support ticket after receiving an e-mail sent out from a user to a certain address, say, support@example.com.

To show how this works on App Engine, we add the ability for our users to create notes by sending e-mail messages to the Notes application: the e-mail subject will be used for the title, the message body for the note content, and every file attached to the e-mail message will be stored on Cloud Storage and be attached to the note as well.

App Engine applications can receive e-mail messages at any address of the <string>@<appid>.appspotmail.com form; messages are then transformed to HTTP requests to the /_ah/mail/<address> URL, where a request handler will process the data.

Before we start, we need to enable the incoming e-mail service...

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