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Re:MailChimp vs. Amazon SES – How I Reduced My Monthly Bill by edlebert on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @05:06PM (#15494948)
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.
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Re:MailChimp vs. Amazon SES – How I Reduced My Monthly Bill by dreamache on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @06:19PM (#15495451)
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.
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Re:MailChimp vs. Amazon SES – How I Reduced My Monthly Bill by leftnode on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @05:16PM (#15495025)
Likewise, we tried SES and had far too many emails going to our customer's SPAM folders, so we switched back to Mailchimp/Mandrill.
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Re:MailChimp vs. Amazon SES – How I Reduced My Monthly Bill by eli on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @05:21PM (#15495091)
I thought you could buy dedicated IPs for SES? Or is that not good enough to separate you from other SES senders?
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Re:MailChimp vs. Amazon SES – How I Reduced My Monthly Bill by hill_smith on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @05:59PM (#15495330)
This is true:

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.

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Re:MailChimp vs. Amazon SES – How I Reduced My Monthly Bill by barbolo on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @05:18PM (#15495057)
Are you sure SES was the problem? Did you correctly configured DKIM/SPF?
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Re:MailChimp vs. Amazon SES – How I Reduced My Monthly Bill by Maxious on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @05:33PM (#15495179)
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/blackl...

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Re:MailChimp vs. Amazon SES – How I Reduced My Monthly Bill by spronkey on Friday October 20, 2017 @10:00AM (#15515794)
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.
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Re:MailChimp vs. Amazon SES – How I Reduced My Monthly Bill by ryan-c on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @05:29PM (#15495151)
I've also had deliverability problems with SES, and I absolutely did set up DKIM/SPF right.
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Re:MailChimp vs. Amazon SES – How I Reduced My Monthly Bill by nothing-special on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @10:57PM (#15496566)
PostmarkApp. They only allow transactional emails and they have unbelieveable inbox rates.

I'm not affiliated with them, but might be their biggest fan.

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