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For those recommending against SES for critical deliveries, what are you using? In the recent past I’ve used Postmark, but they were acquired by a marketing co
by hstaab 3y ago
For those recommending against SES for critical deliveries, what are you using?
In the recent past I’ve used Postmark, but they were acquired by a marketing company.
- erksa 3y agoFor any critical email delivery make sure you can address this thing with the mailsender of choise: 1)SPF, 2)DKIM, 3)DMARC [2] (DMARC is often forgotten or can be super noisy when set up. Postmarc offers a aggregation service for free that sends you a weekly summary), 4)Dedicated IP 5)Reverse IP look up [1] (locate a dns PTR record for that IP address) should match the sender. Not everyone supports 5). 4 and 5 is what you end up paying for, but totally worth it. Sendgrid, SES, Mailgun etc. [1] https://www.mailgun.com/blog/deliverability/reverse-dns-white-labeling-hello-my-name-is/#chapter-1 https://www.mailgun.com/blog/deliverability/reverse-dns-whit... [2] https://dmarc.postmarkapp.com/ https://dmarc.postmarkapp.com/
- joshstrange 3y agoAnd 1 surprising thing (to me) is some places (iCloud was what bit me) alway want you to be able to receive email (have MX records). Even though I have no need to support incoming emails iCloud was blocking my sending until I got that setup. The incoming emails just go to a black hole but that's enough.
- ctas 3y agoShameless plug: I've recently started my own transactional email service (https://www.markix.com https://www.markix.com), primarily targeting small senders, after having been a very happy Postmark customer for a long time. Our service is still in closed beta but delivering live emails. I run a couple other businesses and moved all of my transactional email sending over to Markix. Would love to have a chat with anyone that might be starting a new project and is open to try out a new mail service (mail in bio).