Simple Email SMTP Query

Question

I am new to AWS and have signed up for the AWS Simple Email Service. In the admin section of my website, there is a feature from where I can send bulk emails to my website members. However, I first need to enter the following: SMTP Username and Pwd,  SMTP Port, SMTP host,  Email Queue (put emails in queue or send emails immediately), Use SSL or TLS?, Mail count.

I did see an SMTP username by default but since I was not sure, I went ahead and created a new SMTP in my AWS account and have got the username and password.  I request you to let me know what I should fill for SMTP Port, SMTP Host, SSL or TLS. In my admin panel there are two fields asking Email Queue or not and mail count. What should I fill in these. Should one choose Queue while sending bulk emails?

Last, most of my members have Gmail and yahoo mail ids so will the emails sent using AWS SMTP will reach their inboxes? Anything I should to avoid my emails landing in the recipient's spam folder.

Thanks

Answer

1.- If almost in its entirety you should use all the parameters and SSL (I would recommend it).

2.- Yes, you have to fill in all the SMPT, host port and SSL data (AWS provides you with this information in the console). There are no queues for mass submissions, the API supports a large number of calls. What if AWS manages two types of sandbox and production, sandbox is like a test environment that allows you to send emails not so massively, instead production yes.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/dg/request-production-access.html

3.- It would be good if you activate the SES suppression list.

I'll tell you quickly, after sending an email you could find that it bounces or that they place it as SPAM.

By having these results, the use of the SES service and your entire account may be affected because when sending emails you will have a reputation and when you pass 5%, they can delete your entire AWS account.
  So, when you use the SES service, in the configuration you can also choose the "configuration set" that are a configuration when sending the emails, that configuration you can indicate if you want the logs (all the states that your email goes through whether it is sent, received, opened, bounced, spam, etc) to register with cloudwatch.
You could also configure the suppression list, you have the option of rebounding and/or spam.
This means that when you send an email, and this email falls into one of these states, AWS SES automatically registers that email in a suppression list, which in the next sending, you will send the email but AWS SES will not resend it to the destination mail servers (so as not to increase a bad reputation).

Simple Email SMTP Query

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