FEATURE REQUEST:
SES should add a "forward" action to its list of actions applied by its receipt rules. The action would supply the forward address, and the system would forward the email the way ISP's and other mail handlers do -- keeping to, from, reply-to, etc. headers the same. If it's too spammable to allow the forward action to supply just any email address, then it could be restricted to only verified addresses, although other service providers don't require this. To be clear: the recipient-facing content of the email is unchanged, and I as an SES user have no access to the email to alter it before it gets forwarded by the system. From the perspective of the recipient, they receive the original email as it was sent.
USE CASE:
I write and maintain an app that consumes emails for my client -- pulling certain data out of them. However, there are situations where I need to also send a copy of a consumed email to myself or to some other stakeholder. I do this currently through mailgun, as part of their standard email handling flow, using their "forward" action. SES seems to be missing this capability -- am I correct in this? The SES documentation shows us how to send our own "forwards", which is basically the automated equivalent of manually forwarding a message from one's own email client, either as an attachment or inline. The recipient will see it as coming from whatever verified address we supply as sender rather than the original sender, and cannot can't filter, view, search or sort based on the original sender. I would be pleased to move from mailgun to SES, but I can't do it without true forwarding functionality.
EXAMPLES:
Google, Hotmail, Yahoo and pretty much every other email handler offer essentially this forwarding capability as "auto-forwarding". Mailgun and others in that same space offer it as part of their email handling flow (search for "mailgun routes", and note the "forward" action). These companies handle the DMARC side and appear comfortable with the security and reputation profile associated with forwarding.
