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Amazon SES rocks from a pricing standpoint but deliverability isn't its strong suit.

Huh?

Are you sure you have configured it correctly, including DKIM?

We're using SES a lot (both transactional and campaigns) and never had a problem with deliverability.

There are too many spammers using it.

That seems unlikely considering the default sending limit is a mere 10k mails/day (iirc) and I doubt Amazon lets you raise that when your complaint-inbox is overflowing...




I didn't configure DKIM for SES. I configured it for SendGrid right out the gate but it was made more obvious that it was an important next step. I wasn't even aware that SES supported DKIM at the time of testing. It's an important factor that I admittedly overlooked.


Amazon's own emails regularly get caught in our mail's (Google Apps) spam filter, so I'm skeptical of SES's ability to match MailChimp's level of deliverability.




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