Does anyone have any experience with deliverability, comparing Amazon SES to something like Mailchimp? Are the deliverability rates of Mailchimp really that much better?
Our emails sent through SES, often ended up in people's spam folder despite doing the requisite verifications (SPF, DKIM).
We switched to Mandrill and noticed significant improvements. We don't send alot of emails, but for transactional emails, it's important those are delivered.
Sending emails without images, in plain text, also does improve delivery especially to corporate emails.
We were exploring dedicated IPs, but those require warming up, so frankly we don't send many emails.
Love to hear any other advise for improving email delivery.
Not sure if SES offers this. The other guys will. That alone could be reason to try it out? Shouldn't be hard to with gateways for 1 blast and see how it performs.