Re:Mandrill has been down for over 30 hours with no explanation
by mountainofdeath on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @09:59AM
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Amazon SES is supposed to be strictly transactional email. Using it for anything else isn't really the intended purpose.
Re:Mandrill has been down for over 30 hours with no explanation
by super-serial on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @10:13AM
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No it's not. Right on the homepage they say it can be used for marketing emails including newsletters:
https://aws.amazon.com/ses/
If someone has different info let me know... we're migrating off Mailchimp and already have some of our newsletters on SES at work.
The other things I found really frustrating about SES were: templates had to be defined inline in a JSON file and then sent to SES via the AWS CLI. So, since there's is no online/visual editor, copy changes and the like required a developer to rebuild/sanitize/minify the template source and then update it via the AWS CLI.
It also took _way_ longer than it should have to have our rate limit bumped up to a reasonable level. IIRC, it took ~one week for my request to be processed (after submitting proof that we owned the domain, etc.) and it was only after a fit on twitter that AWS Support followed up with me and escalated the issue.