For those recommending against SES for critical deliveries, what are you using?
In the recent past I’ve used Postmark, but they were acquired by a marketing company.
In the recent past I’ve used Postmark, but they were acquired by a marketing company.
1)SPF,
2)DKIM,
3)DMARC [2] (DMARC is often forgotten or can be super noisy when set up. Postmarc offers a aggregation service for free that sends you a weekly summary),
4)Dedicated IP
5)Reverse IP look up [1] (locate a dns PTR record for that IP address) should match the sender.
Not everyone supports 5).
4 and 5 is what you end up paying for, but totally worth it. Sendgrid, SES, Mailgun etc.
[1] https://www.mailgun.com/blog/deliverability/reverse-dns-whit...
I run a couple other businesses and moved all of my transactional email sending over to Markix.
Would love to have a chat with anyone that might be starting a new project and is open to try out a new mail service (mail in bio).