Category: How-To

As you may have seen in Jeff Barr’s blog post or in an announcement, Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) now provides bounce and complaint notifications via Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS). You can refer to the Amazon SES Developer Guide or Jeff’s post to learn how to set up this feature. In this […]

(Edited May 22, 2019)—We’ve removed the documentation for this solution from the Amazon SES Developer Guide. Several components of this solution became outdated since we originally posted this article. We plan to fix the outdated components at some point in the future and re-publish the documentation. We’re leaving this post up in the interest of […]

When we set out to build an email receiving service for AWS, we wanted to make receiving email easy, but we also wanted to empower you to make your own decisions about how your inbound emails should be handled. With the goal of striking a balance between ease of use and flexibility, we integrated SES […]

We’ve finally reached the conclusion of our deep dive into how you can capture SMTP conversations should you need to debug an issue that lies deeper than your application. Now that we’ve gone over SMTP conversation basics and getting the easiest to decipher bits of a TCP conversation with TCP Flow, let’s look at all […]

If your email-sending application has problems communicating with the Amazon SES SMTP interface (or your customers are having problems connecting to your SMTP server that proxies requests to Amazon SES), you’ll first probably check your application logs to see what’s going on. If you’re not able to find a smoking gun in your application logs […]

Amazon SES strives to make your email sending as simple and quick as possible, which means that users of our HTTP API don’t even have to worry about what an SMTP conversation is or how to capture one. Even a lot of our SMTP interface users outsource the problem to software like Microsoft Outlook or […]

Every SES account has a quota limiting the number of messages that can be sent daily. Here are some of the most common questions we hear about this quota: Why do you have a daily quota? Quite simply, the daily quota is a mechanism to limit the potential damage if an account starts sending spam. […]

So you performed the domain verification steps listed in the Developer Guide but the domain status in the SES Console still says Pending? To validate that the domain verification steps were executed properly, you have to check that the validation token was published to DNS under the correct record. Let’s say that you’re validating the […]

One of the questions we get from time to time here at Amazon SES is “What IP address is my email going out through?” In this blog post we will see how to find the outgoing IP addresses that SES is using by querying the Amazon SES SPF records in DNS. What is an outgoing […]

Email sending is one of those activities you may not pay much attention to when all goes well, but you really notice when it’s not working. In today’s fast moving world, the speed of information transfer is critical, so slow email delivery is a particularly painful problem. In this blog post, we will explore three […]