Is anyone use Amazon's SES for sending emails

rbross

Hello,

Is anyone using SES for sending emails in AIM?
I added the smtp email settings in systemsettings that SES provided and it works for a little while then stops working.
Either the ISP is blocking the emails from being received or the ip address for the host name is changing.

intra

Roger,

Are you keeping within the limits of SES?

Sending quota: 200 emails per 24-hour period.
Maximum send rate: 1 email per second.

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/DeveloperGuide/limits.html

rbross

Yes, well within limits. We will only sending 2 email a month.
This process will once a month and send emails to those on the distribution list.

Right now during testing I am sending more but no where near the limit and still only two at a time.

RLJB

Yes - using it and confirm working on SMTP. Nothing special, just authenticate the user and go.

rbross

issue I was having was, I would get the error, "Cannot find host" after only a few sends of emails.
It seemed like the ip address was randomly changing. After looking into it that's just what AWS does with SES.

I switch back to mandrill and had the domain name verified and had the clients IT support add DKIM/SPF keys to the DNS and mandrill is working fine now.