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I understand that the Parse API has optional spam checking that can be enabled. This simply adds spam score parameters to the POST it sends our way. However I'm wondering if SendGrid does any blocking/filtering of obvious spam/virus emails and simply drops them without POSTing to our URL?
The reason I'm asking is that the email address we're using for the Parse API is quite publicly known, and I'm worried that spam could get out of hand and run up our monthly bill considerably.
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Does Parse API ever block or drop spam emails?
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Hello,
I hadn't considered the bandwidth costs of having spam emails posted to your form. We'll add an option to drop the email if it goes above a threshold.
Regards,
TimComment -
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Tim: that would be fantastic!
Just to be clear: I was worried more about the monthly per-email bill from SendGrid, not the cost of bandwidth from our hosting provider. -
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1Ah, I see.
We'll still be logging the emails dropped as spam as a stat, just so we can track what is going on. Since we aren't currently charging anything for emails that go through the parse api, you don't need to worry right now about extra costs from SendGrid. -
