Setting up App Engine to receive email addresses with ids in the address
- by Mark M
I am writing an App Engine app that is supposed to receive emails in this form:
[email protected] (someID is an alphanumeric ID that I generate).
I have this in my web.xml thinking it would catch emails that start
with 'addcontact.':
<servlet>
<servlet-name>addNewContactServlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>com.mycompany.server.AddNewContactServlet</servlet-
class>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>addNewContactServlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/_ah/mail/addcontact.*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
However, both on my dev machine and on google's servers email is not
received. On the dev machine I get this message (I get a similar error
in the deployed log)
Message send failure
HTTP ERROR 404
Problem accessing /_ah/mail/
[email protected].
Reason:
NOT_FOUND
I can receive email at fully specified addresses or when I use /_ah/mail/*
The google documentation made me believe it was possible to include partial email addresses in web.xml. Am I not using the wildcard correctly? Does the period have something to do with it? Can this be done somehow?
