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Aaaaaand that's why I no longer use Amazon SES for transactional mail for signupforms.com. It is frequently used by mass-marketers, which means my transactiona

Aaaaaand that's why I no longer use Amazon SES for transactional mail for signupforms.com. It is frequently used by mass-marketers, which means my transactional email was frequently being dropped by some email providers because of SES's poor deliverability.

leftnode 9y ago
Likewise, we tried SES and had far too many emails going to our customer's SPAM folders, so we switched back to Mailchimp/Mandrill.
barbolo 9y ago
Are you sure SES was the problem? Did you correctly configured DKIM/SPF?
- ryan-c 9y ago
  I've also had deliverability problems with SES, and I absolutely did set up DKIM/SPF right.
- Maxious 9y ago
  We've occasionally got bounces like "554 5.7.1 Service unavailable; Client host [54.240.27.56] blocked using dnsbl.sorbs.net". Amazon say SORBS is worthless but unfortunately someone is still using them https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/DeveloperGuide/blacklists.html https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/DeveloperGuide/blackl...
  - spronkey 9y ago
    Seriously, doing bulk emailing you find that mail services are often the dustiest, cobwebbiest things on the internet. I swear some of these things have been sitting untouched for literal decades.
eli 9y ago
I thought you could buy dedicated IPs for SES? Or is that not good enough to separate you from other SES senders?
- hill_smith 9y ago
  This is true: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/DeveloperGuide/dedicated-ips.html http://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/DeveloperGuide/dedicat... I've had zero problems with Sendy and SES on my platform over the past 2 years.
dreamache 9y ago
Author here. I've noticed the opposite. All things being equal (email content/subject lines etc), my opens, clicks, etc.. all have increased since switching to SES. Not sure if an anomaly or what, but that's my experience.
nothing-special 9y ago
PostmarkApp. They only allow transactional emails and they have unbelieveable inbox rates. I'm not affiliated with them, but might be their biggest fan.

leftnode 9y ago

Likewise, we tried SES and had far too many emails going to our customer's SPAM folders, so we switched back to Mailchimp/Mandrill.

barbolo 9y ago

Are you sure SES was the problem? Did you correctly configured DKIM/SPF?

ryan-c 9y ago
I've also had deliverability problems with SES, and I absolutely did set up DKIM/SPF right.
Maxious 9y ago
We've occasionally got bounces like "554 5.7.1 Service unavailable; Client host [54.240.27.56] blocked using dnsbl.sorbs.net". Amazon say SORBS is worthless but unfortunately someone is still using them https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/DeveloperGuide/blacklists.html https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/DeveloperGuide/blackl...
- spronkey 9y ago
  Seriously, doing bulk emailing you find that mail services are often the dustiest, cobwebbiest things on the internet. I swear some of these things have been sitting untouched for literal decades.

eli 9y ago

I thought you could buy dedicated IPs for SES? Or is that not good enough to separate you from other SES senders?

hill_smith 9y ago
This is true: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/DeveloperGuide/dedicated-ips.html http://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/DeveloperGuide/dedicat... I've had zero problems with Sendy and SES on my platform over the past 2 years.

dreamache 9y ago

Author here. I've noticed the opposite. All things being equal (email content/subject lines etc), my opens, clicks, etc.. all have increased since switching to SES. Not sure if an anomaly or what, but that's my experience.

nothing-special 9y ago

PostmarkApp. They only allow transactional emails and they have unbelieveable inbox rates. I'm not affiliated with them, but might be their biggest fan.