[edlebert]

Aaaaaand that's why I no longer use Amazon SES for transactional mail for signupforms.com. It is frequently used by mass-marketers, which means my transactional email was frequently being dropped by some email providers because of SES's poor deliverability.

[dreamache]

Author here. I've noticed the opposite. All things being equal (email content/subject lines etc), my opens, clicks, etc.. all have increased since switching to SES. Not sure if an anomaly or what, but that's my experience.

[leftnode]

Likewise, we tried SES and had far too many emails going to our customer's SPAM folders, so we switched back to Mailchimp/Mandrill.

[eli]

I thought you could buy dedicated IPs for SES? Or is that not good enough to separate you from other SES senders?

[hill_smith]

This is true:

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/DeveloperGuide/dedicat...

I've had zero problems with Sendy and SES on my platform over the past 2 years.

[barbolo]

Are you sure SES was the problem? Did you correctly configured DKIM/SPF?

[Maxious]

We've occasionally got bounces like "554 5.7.1 Service unavailable; Client host [54.240.27.56] blocked using dnsbl.sorbs.net".

Amazon say SORBS is worthless but unfortunately someone is still using them https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/DeveloperGuide/blackl...

[spronkey]

Seriously, doing bulk emailing you find that mail services are often the dustiest, cobwebbiest things on the internet. I swear some of these things have been sitting untouched for literal decades.

[ryan-c]

I've also had deliverability problems with SES, and I absolutely did set up DKIM/SPF right.

[nothing-special]

PostmarkApp. They only allow transactional emails and they have unbelieveable inbox rates.

I'm not affiliated with them, but might be their biggest fan.