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> Sending your mail yourself is the real hard part It's possible to punt on this by using SES for outbound, while continuing to handle inbound a different way.

by dmw_ng 5y ago

> Sending your mail yourself is the real hard part It's possible to punt on this by using SES for outbound, while continuing to handle inbound a different way. Obviously SES doesn't count as fully self-hosted, but it does solve (or at least significantly ameliorate -- zero issues here) the reputation problem

judge2020 5y ago
I think that's what they're talking about in terms of 'you don't send your own mail', but it is a good solution and SPF+DKIM means you should have very few issues with deliverability and reputation.
- blibble 5y ago
  spammers tend to set up SPF/DKIM
  - judge2020 5y ago
    I mean that SES gives you SES IP reputation, and they force you to have a low bounce rate & complaint rate, thus SES specifically is usually not blocked by big providers nor small enterprise networks.
gruez 5y ago
>It's possible to punt on this by using SES for outbound How does this work? Do you just sign up for aws, then set your outbound SMTP to whatever SES provides?
- z0f 5y ago
  Yep, you just configure your outbound SMTP server to be the SES credentials and adjust your SPF/DKIM records.