Amazon AWS Amazon AWS SES SMTP Transactional Email Info

For reliable mass email sending via 3rd party SMTP transactional email services you should look at Amazon AWS SES. All my forums and sites including this very forum use Amazon AWS SES SMTP for transactional bulk email sending. When you get forum email alerts and notifications for this forum, they are set via Amazon AWS SES 3rd party SMTP servers for high rate of reliable deliverability and keeps my own server's IP free of email spam blacklisting etc. Of course there is a cost, AWS SES pricing $0.10 per 1,000 emails Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) – Pricing.

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Ideally, you can do Amazon AWS SES sandbox email testing at no cost at first until you request removal from SES sandbox mode.

You will be on your own setting up Amazon AWS SES but google-fu is awseome. Search for "amazon ses how to" and "amazon ses tutorial"

Official Amazon AWS SES Documentation

Official Amazon SES docs are all you actually need though.

• Amazon SES Quick Start - Amazon Simple Email Service
• Getting Started Sending Email with Amazon SES - Amazon Simple Email Service
  
• Setting up Email with Amazon SES - Amazon Simple Email Service
  
• Authenticating Your Email in Amazon SES - Amazon Simple Email Service
  
• How to send an email – Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Additional steps for DMARC compliance via SPF: Setting Up Custom MAIL FROM Domain

Amazon SES Examples

• For Xenforo, use Amazon SMTP server in XF email settings Email - Amazon SES for xenforo ?

 

AWS SES Monitoring Bounce & Complaint Rates

If you're using AWS SES transactional SMTP email services, you will want to monitor your AWS SES bounce and complaint rates to ensure your account doesn't get suspended. Full details on using AWS CloudWatch to create monitoring alarm alerts can be found at Creating Reputation Monitoring Alarms Using CloudWatch - Amazon Simple Email Service

• AWS senders' bounce rates to should remain below 5%. Senders with a bounce rate exceeding 10% risk suspension. Learn more
• AWS senders' complaint rates to should remain below 0.1%. Senders with a complaint rate exceeding 0.5% risk suspension. Learn more.

Past 24hrs bounce rate




Past 24hrs complaint rate

 

Had a paying client ask me to switch their outbound emails to using Amazon SES smtp servers and I setup bounce and complaint notification alarms outlined above. Then I set up a AWS Cloudwatch dashboard for SES reputation monitoring



Looks like shared Amazon AWS Cloudwatch Dashboards also get a dark mode