Scheduled Email in Google-App-Engine - Java

Question

What app-engine API will be used for sending scheduled email? I want the app to send email weekly.

Answer 1

For scheduling see:

https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/java/config/cron

For example:

<cron>
 <url>/reports/weekly</url>
 <description>Mail out a weekly report</description>
 <schedule>every saturday 09:00</schedule>
 <timezone>Asia/Tokyo</timezone>
</cron>

Then configure a servlet to handle the request to /reports/weekly . If you have many to send, you may want to set up the handling servlet to use a taskQueue

For mailing see:

https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/java/mail/