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Open/click tracking doesn't add much in terms of cost. That traffic is minor. The bulk of the traffic is the transmission of the emails.
by ajaygoel 8y ago
Open/click tracking doesn't add much in terms of cost. That traffic is minor. The bulk of the traffic is the transmission of the emails.
- jumbopapa 8y agoHe makes it sound like that is all handled client side though, no? It uses the users own gmail account to send the emails.
- ajaygoel 8y agoNo it's not all client side. Just the interaction with the UI is client-side. All the heavy lifting is server-side.
- SubuSS 8y agoI am sorry if this sounds dense: But if you are sending the emails from server side, how are you getting to the user credentials / gmail login 2 step verifications etc.? I am assuming you mean you send from the client UI but the extension talks to your server for scheduling the future sends etc. in which case you shouldn't have that much network bandwidth.
- ajaygoel 8y agoThe user logs into his Gmail account on his own and uses the GMass extension, which operates within the Gmail UI, to create/schedule campaigns. On the back-end, GMass connects to the user's account over standard Google OAuth 2 to then send the emails.
- SubuSS 8y agoWell I should have thought of Google apps . Good stuff!
- sciurus 8y agoI'm confused. In another comment you said "GMass doesn't actually send any emails through its own servers." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19211369 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19211369
- selflesssieve 8y agoIt composes, personalizes, and "clicks" the send button. Google/gmail actually sends the email.
- ajaygoel 8y agoLet me clarify. GMass doesn't send any email, but we do have to transmit the email to someone that does send it, hence the bandwidth costs.
- ttty 8y agoIf it's client side, where does this communication happen?