What should you say to increase your sending limits on SES? I put together a script for you! Regarding the two questions about who you'll be sending to and how you hand bounce and complaints: “I only send to recipients who have specifically requested my mail via a form on my website" "I have a process to monitor for bounce and complaints via the WP Offload SES plugin" Next -- You can include a memo as well! Dear AWS team, My website is located here: [ Link to website ]. I have collected emails through opt-in on my site. My emails are clean and verified. I have been using BLANK email service provider for XXX time and now want to move to Amazon SES. I will be using SES as a transactional provider for my Wordpress website. I plan to integrate with WP Offload SES. This application can handle bounce, complaint and un-subscription effectively. Please approve my request for Amazon SES production access and sending limit increase in above-mentioned region. Let me know if you have any questions. Thanks, NAME
@Profitable Tools ----- Thanks for the video! If this works, this will LITERALLY be an answer to prayer! I've completed the setup for everything and am just waiting my approval from Amazon SES. Thanks again!!! :)
Perfect timing Dave, I just switched to Closte from SiteGround and figured out I need to get SMTP setup, followed your tutorial and it's working perfect! Wish they had an LTD for PRO, but if I buy it I'll make sure to use your affiliate link. Thanks again! 🎉
Not a silly quesiton at all. Gmail does work... but I don't recommend it. It is not designed for sending transactional emails and there are limits in place for how many emails you can send per day via Gmail. I also prefer to connect to a sending service via an API connection to ensure emails are sent, rather than an SMTP connection, which is more prone to failure and lacks the ability to retry sending if there is an issue. It is best to have a dedicated sending service and the cost is so low there isn't a very good reason not to. If you did want to use Gmail, you'd need an SMTP plugin like FluentSMTP (which also works well with AmazonSES).
Good video, earned a subscribe from me. Quick question, can this be used in a wordpress multisite? So each subsite could have mail delivered from their own domain?
Two questions: 1. Do you keep your Amazon SES/other services separate from your personal Amazon account? What if you have other Amazon accounts (business, affiliate, etc) Is all of this related/linked it separate? That has always been confusing for me. I ended up with 5 different EWS accounts at one point. 2. Why is this better than having an easy managed email (Gsuite, O365, Zoho) solution? The main benefit of those being familiarity, comprehensive ecosystem, and best in class email interfaces. Also mobile apps, ubiquitous integrations, extensions, etc.
Hey Just - We have a separate AWS account for our business that is connected to our business CC. I'd recommend doing that. You can login with your personal amazon account if you want, but to me it makes sense to keep separate. If you're serving clients you might ask them to create a new AWS account and add you as a user so you can configure AWS for them.
@@dave-swift Thank you Dave. Also, I think I understand the video a bit more now. So the SES setup is for transactional/high volume emails, which is not really supported by the standard (Google, MS, Zoho) options. Is that right?
Hi Just, I had the same question. So what did you end up doing? Did you have (gsuite, 0365 or Zoho) of regular company emails, and have SES for your transactional emails?
@@zp2763 exactly. I have daily emails running on Gsuite for two brands, O365 for two others and then Amazon SES through FluentCRM for the transactional emails on one brand also have Moosend for another.
New to Amazon SES but heard a bit about it so I have ventured in. Love the video (as always) BUT... I know i am totally missing something here. Verified domain (left the MX record alone) but when I add an email address I am told to go to the email address inbox I just created to verify.. I assumed this was the email (personal one) I used to setup the Root AWS account. Obviously not so,where is this email inbox live I wonder??? ........ @Profitable Tools, Do you have a series teaching how to get the Amazon SES all good and working from scratch? Amazon is very confusing to say the least. Hope somebody could advice a little.
@Profitable Tools -- Question: I am hosting clients using Cloudways, which doesn't offer SMTP options really. I have clients using different email providers for their company email (Office 365, G Suite, Ox Email, etc....) and are on the same Cloudways server. Would this type of setup help these clients be able to send emails from within WordPress? Currently it seems that contact form submissions and such are NOT being emailed out because of Cloudways lack of SMTP. Any advice/help you could provide would be GREATLY appreciated!!!!! Thanks!
Hey Brandon, yes this will solve the issue with the website emails not being sent. The company can keep using their email provider for regular sending and receiving emails. The DNS records you add via SES will give permission for AWS to send emails on your behalf, but not receive them (use Office 365, G Suite, Ox Email, etc for that). Good luck! 👍
Great video! You say that the pay version help you track your emails. However, wouldn't Mautic do that function? I mean Mautic is able to track those emails, right?
So I read a reply of yours where you say people using Gmail/ gmail SMTP should stop. Does that mean not to use Gsuite at all? And how can email be read, especially if on mobile? Kinda new to SMTP
Hey, I followed your instructions but the test email isn't sending- I get an error. Do I have to wait until my sending limit has been increased (and I'm taken out of sandbox mode)? Thank you
Thanks for the video, very useful. Could you please help with setting up the Webmail(client) you have to access received emails if we want to receive emails too there
I didn't! Developers change pricing frequently so I don't like to include it in videos as it makes my content go out of date the moment they change their price... But you can go to get.profitable.tools/offload-ses and click on their pricing for the current offer. (it's 20% off right now) :)
Do I have to request a "sending limit" for each domain name I want to be able to "send from" or can I just add it to the list of domains and verify it with my DNS?
Cloudways integration with Elastic Email is pretty terrible. Elastic email includes your address at the bottom of every email.... for every site on your account. So if you have client sites, the transactional emails being sent from their cloudways will include your address. This is not something that can be removed. Pricing is slightly more expensive with Elastic Email... and finally, not everyone is on Cloudways :)
Man, I am a new subscriber and I feel like you were saying something very important to me as an entrepreneur, however I don't understand your overall approach you're doing. How can I get an email service to make me money as a photographer? I've seen about five or six of your videos And I think you are like 4 steps at tech in front of my mind right now. I need a way to chip into this entire world that you are so comfortable with And I am a novice.
Welcome to the channel, Nynty5 :) It's hard to say what you can do with email, since I don't know your business. Special offers, cart abandoment, and helpful artciles are a good place for most businesses to start! I hope I can continue to be helpful to you with my videos. Best, Dave
It's really not too bad. Once you go through the initial setup adding SES to additional website is a breeze. You can add as many domains as you want to your SES account.
Haha, pretty close! It's a funny thing, though: Watch any cartoon movie with voiceovers, and half the actors will be Canadian. Watch tutorials on the internet? Good chance the narrator is Canadian. Real life? Not meeting that many Canadians!
Certain Website builders limit you on who you can work with. For example, I know ClickFunnels requires Sendgrid. You're still likely to need a transactional email provider of some sort!
Sorry, I don't understand the question. Amazon SES can provide SMTP credentials, but that is not needed if you're using the Offload SES plugin as they will get programmatic access to your account and configure it for you.
Man... This is great. Email deliverablity seems so black box voodoo to me. The one thing I can't seem to 'get'. The whole MX, CNAME, DNS... blah blah... Do I assume you access emails via outlook/thunderbird? How about on my phone? Can I create new emails (i.e., sales@, info@..., Employee2@... etc)? If so, are credits simply companywide? Is it managed through A SES? Or, is it all done through the plugin With one of my companies I FINALLY got a solution that worked with GSuite. Easy. But, I'd like to switch to a non-Google solution with a new company I'm building. SORRY.. I feel like an idiot with this stuff.
Hey Lucas, no worries! I'll try to break it down for you. MX records are for receiving email. You only want to set this up with your primary workmail provider... something like Gsuite, rackspace, zoho, office 365. I'll assume you already regular email setup. Leave it alone. Don't touch your MX records. If you don't have a regular workmail provider, that is for a different video. There are many good providers. This video is only about sending email from your website (contact forms, receipts, password resets). As for your DNS confusion -- the other records required to setup SES are: 1. a TXT record. This proves to amazon that you own the domain. 2. DKIM records. These are added in the form of CNAME records, and validate to other email providers that you have permission to send from your domain. I hope this helps!
@@dave-swift thank you sir. So if I understand you correctly, you would have your normal email whatever it is (perhaps GSuite, or something through your web host). This process ONLY deals with website-based sent email. That is, if the customer responded to an email (i.e., a receipt), I would still have to indicate a work email (i.e., support@abc.com) that deals with this in the settings somewhere. Right? Does it sorry of just replace (maybe enhance?) the SMTP on a site now?
I do. For multiple businesses. I just asked a question about that above. Would love to read other people's perspective on this. Gsuite has been pretty much flawless for me so trying to understand the benefits of the solution in this video.
Many people are using Gmail/Gsuite SMTP for sending emails via their website. MANY MANY people. And they should stop. Get a service dedicated to transactional emails.
@Vinay Agreed, I'm a big fan of WP ManageNinja, but WP Offload SES is no slouch either. The team at Delicious Brains is extremely talented and reputable. That said, I do plan to make a FluentSMTP video as well.
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What should you say to increase your sending limits on SES? I put together a script for you!
Regarding the two questions about who you'll be sending to and how you hand bounce and complaints:
“I only send to recipients who have specifically requested my mail via a form on my website"
"I have a process to monitor for bounce and complaints via the WP Offload SES plugin"
Next -- You can include a memo as well!
Dear AWS team,
My website is located here: [ Link to website ]. I have collected emails through opt-in on my site. My emails are clean and verified.
I have been using BLANK email service provider for XXX time and now want to move to Amazon SES.
I will be using SES as a transactional provider for my Wordpress website. I plan to integrate with WP Offload SES.
This application can handle bounce, complaint and un-subscription effectively.
Please approve my request for Amazon SES production access and sending limit increase in above-mentioned region. Let me know if you have any questions.
Thanks,
NAME
@Profitable Tools ----- Thanks for the video! If this works, this will LITERALLY be an answer to prayer! I've completed the setup for everything and am just waiting my approval from Amazon SES. Thanks again!!! :)
Fantastic! Let me know how it goes!
@@dave-swift - Do you know about how long it takes to verify the domain? It's been almost 3 days now and still it says pending. Thanks!
Perfect timing Dave, I just switched to Closte from SiteGround and figured out I need to get SMTP setup, followed your tutorial and it's working perfect!
Wish they had an LTD for PRO, but if I buy it I'll make sure to use your affiliate link.
Thanks again! 🎉
Glad it helped, Adi!
Very helpful video - thank you so much! I'm all signed up and awaiting SES cool kid approval. Perhaps a silly question - but why does Gmail not work?
Not a silly quesiton at all. Gmail does work... but I don't recommend it.
It is not designed for sending transactional emails and there are limits in place for how many emails you can send per day via Gmail. I also prefer to connect to a sending service via an API connection to ensure emails are sent, rather than an SMTP connection, which is more prone to failure and lacks the ability to retry sending if there is an issue.
It is best to have a dedicated sending service and the cost is so low there isn't a very good reason not to.
If you did want to use Gmail, you'd need an SMTP plugin like FluentSMTP (which also works well with AmazonSES).
This is awesome! Thank you so much for doing this tutorial, easy to follow and very helpful.
You're very welcome! I'm glad it was helpful Pez.
Good video, earned a subscribe from me.
Quick question, can this be used in a wordpress multisite? So each subsite could have mail delivered from their own domain?
Yes you can!
I did exactly.. but my emails are going into the promotions tab. How can I fix this?
Two questions:
1. Do you keep your Amazon SES/other services separate from your personal Amazon account? What if you have other Amazon accounts (business, affiliate, etc) Is all of this related/linked it separate? That has always been confusing for me. I ended up with 5 different EWS accounts at one point.
2. Why is this better than having an easy managed email (Gsuite, O365, Zoho) solution? The main benefit of those being familiarity, comprehensive ecosystem, and best in class email interfaces. Also mobile apps, ubiquitous integrations, extensions, etc.
Hey Just - We have a separate AWS account for our business that is connected to our business CC. I'd recommend doing that. You can login with your personal amazon account if you want, but to me it makes sense to keep separate.
If you're serving clients you might ask them to create a new AWS account and add you as a user so you can configure AWS for them.
@@dave-swift Thank you Dave. Also, I think I understand the video a bit more now. So the SES setup is for transactional/high volume emails, which is not really supported by the standard (Google, MS, Zoho) options. Is that right?
Yes, although I think there is deliverability improvements even if you’re not reaching the limits of what Google allows for standard Gsuite accounts.
Hi Just, I had the same question. So what did you end up doing? Did you have (gsuite, 0365 or Zoho) of regular company emails, and have SES for your transactional emails?
@@zp2763 exactly. I have daily emails running on Gsuite for two brands, O365 for two others and then Amazon SES through FluentCRM for the transactional emails on one brand also have Moosend for another.
New to Amazon SES but heard a bit about it so I have ventured in. Love the video (as always) BUT... I know i am totally missing something here. Verified domain (left the MX record alone) but when I add an email address I am told to go to the email address inbox I just created to verify.. I assumed this was the email (personal one) I used to setup the Root AWS account. Obviously not so,where is this email inbox live I wonder??? ........
@Profitable Tools, Do you have a series teaching how to get the Amazon SES all good and working from scratch?
Amazon is very confusing to say the least. Hope somebody could advice a little.
Very useful info.
Glad it was helpful, Jon!
Thanks Dave! As always!
My pleasure! Thanks for the comment, Zara 👍
@Profitable Tools -- Question: I am hosting clients using Cloudways, which doesn't offer SMTP options really. I have clients using different email providers for their company email (Office 365, G Suite, Ox Email, etc....) and are on the same Cloudways server. Would this type of setup help these clients be able to send emails from within WordPress? Currently it seems that contact form submissions and such are NOT being emailed out because of Cloudways lack of SMTP. Any advice/help you could provide would be GREATLY appreciated!!!!! Thanks!
yeah i am trying to solve this issue too.. but looks like linking to AWS SES solves this issue i think
@@manjulbose - yep I'm hoping it will. I've done all the setup and am waiting for approval from Amazon SES. I'll post later if everything works out! 👍
Hey Brandon, yes this will solve the issue with the website emails not being sent.
The company can keep using their email provider for regular sending and receiving emails. The DNS records you add via SES will give permission for AWS to send emails on your behalf, but not receive them (use Office 365, G Suite, Ox Email, etc for that).
Good luck! 👍
Great tut Davo!!
Thanks Graham!
Great video! You say that the pay version help you track your emails. However, wouldn't Mautic do that function? I mean Mautic is able to track those emails, right?
No, emails sent from your website are different than marketing emails sent from your email marketing tool. The two can’t interact with each other.
@@dave-swift that makes sense. Thanks
So I read a reply of yours where you say people using Gmail/ gmail SMTP should stop. Does that mean not to use Gsuite at all? And how can email be read, especially if on mobile?
Kinda new to SMTP
Google Workspace is great. It should not be used to send emails from your website.
I already have a smtp free plug in (WP Mail SMTP) on my online store. once I implement SES should I delete the other smtp plug in?
Yes, disable first and send a test email to confirm it’s working before deleting. 👍
Hey, I followed your instructions but the test email isn't sending- I get an error. Do I have to wait until my sending limit has been increased (and I'm taken out of sandbox mode)? Thank you
If you’re in sandbox mode you won’t be able to send outside of your domain.
@@dave-swift Got it. To get out of Sandbox I just have to wait for my sending limit increase to be accepted, right?
Yes, when you send your initial sending limit increase request they will decide if you are allowed out of the sandbox ;)
Thanks for the video, very useful. Could you please help with setting up the Webmail(client) you have to access received emails if we want to receive emails too there
You would use whatever service you are using for your workmail, I’d recommend Gmail or Zoho Mail.
Really great vid...thank you!
Glad you liked it! Good to hear from an old school subscriber :)
Great vid! You didn’t mention the price of the paid version?
I didn't! Developers change pricing frequently so I don't like to include it in videos as it makes my content go out of date the moment they change their price... But you can go to get.profitable.tools/offload-ses and click on their pricing for the current offer. (it's 20% off right now) :)
Great video. Would you do a vid with fluent smtp? It is completely free and is like a pro version
Yes :)
This is really awesome! Thanks.
Do I have to request a "sending limit" for each domain name I want to be able to "send from" or can I just add it to the list of domains and verify it with my DNS?
Nope, it’s by the region.
Just Great, Thanks for the Video.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Does it work well for WPMS? Tks! ;-)
thanks! SES only works for wordpress?
Nope! You can use it with many different services!
On CloudWays you can use Elastic Email for transactional emails for pennies. Why bother with all that?
Cloudways integration with Elastic Email is pretty terrible.
Elastic email includes your address at the bottom of every email.... for every site on your account.
So if you have client sites, the transactional emails being sent from their cloudways will include your address.
This is not something that can be removed.
Pricing is slightly more expensive with Elastic Email... and finally, not everyone is on Cloudways :)
Man, I am a new subscriber and I feel like you were saying something very important to me as an entrepreneur, however I don't understand your overall approach you're doing. How can I get an email service to make me money as a photographer? I've seen about five or six of your videos And I think you are like 4 steps at tech in front of my mind right now. I need a way to chip into this entire world that you are so comfortable with And I am a novice.
Welcome to the channel, Nynty5 :)
It's hard to say what you can do with email, since I don't know your business. Special offers, cart abandoment, and helpful artciles are a good place for most businesses to start!
I hope I can continue to be helpful to you with my videos.
Best,
Dave
This is a great video but what a mission to send emails!!!
It's really not too bad. Once you go through the initial setup adding SES to additional website is a breeze. You can add as many domains as you want to your SES account.
Canadians in real life: Nonexistent. Canadians in entertainment and on the internet? Every second character.
If you're referring to me, I'm from Minnesota! This video is many years old so sorry if I don't get the reference.
Haha, pretty close! It's a funny thing, though: Watch any cartoon movie with voiceovers, and half the actors will be Canadian. Watch tutorials on the internet? Good chance the narrator is Canadian. Real life? Not meeting that many Canadians!
Both my parents and my entire extended family are all Canadians. I was born right here though!
What if a company doesn't use WP?
Certain Website builders limit you on who you can work with. For example, I know ClickFunnels requires Sendgrid.
You're still likely to need a transactional email provider of some sort!
Does it provide SMTP details also ?
Sorry, I don't understand the question.
Amazon SES can provide SMTP credentials, but that is not needed if you're using the Offload SES plugin as they will get programmatic access to your account and configure it for you.
Ok thankyou Sir
They already have your data anyway :)
...it’s true!
Man... This is great. Email deliverablity seems so black box voodoo to me. The one thing I can't seem to 'get'. The whole MX, CNAME, DNS... blah blah... Do I assume you access emails via outlook/thunderbird? How about on my phone? Can I create new emails (i.e., sales@, info@..., Employee2@... etc)? If so, are credits simply companywide?
Is it managed through A SES? Or, is it all done through the plugin
With one of my companies I FINALLY got a solution that worked with GSuite. Easy. But, I'd like to switch to a non-Google solution with a new company I'm building.
SORRY.. I feel like an idiot with this stuff.
Hey Lucas, no worries!
I'll try to break it down for you.
MX records are for receiving email. You only want to set this up with your primary workmail provider... something like Gsuite, rackspace, zoho, office 365.
I'll assume you already regular email setup. Leave it alone. Don't touch your MX records.
If you don't have a regular workmail provider, that is for a different video. There are many good providers. This video is only about sending email from your website (contact forms, receipts, password resets).
As for your DNS confusion -- the other records required to setup SES are:
1. a TXT record. This proves to amazon that you own the domain.
2. DKIM records. These are added in the form of CNAME records, and validate to other email providers that you have permission to send from your domain.
I hope this helps!
@@dave-swift thank you sir. So if I understand you correctly, you would have your normal email whatever it is (perhaps GSuite, or something through your web host). This process ONLY deals with website-based sent email. That is, if the customer responded to an email (i.e., a receipt), I would still have to indicate a work email (i.e., support@abc.com) that deals with this in the settings somewhere. Right? Does it sorry of just replace (maybe enhance?) the SMTP
on a site now?
Sendinblue ?
That is an email marketing tool, this video is about sending transactional emails from your website.
Does anyone use a Gmail account for business?
I do. For multiple businesses. I just asked a question about that above. Would love to read other people's perspective on this. Gsuite has been pretty much flawless for me so trying to understand the benefits of the solution in this video.
Many people are using Gmail/Gsuite SMTP for sending emails via their website. MANY MANY people. And they should stop. Get a service dedicated to transactional emails.
@@dave-swift Thank you for your answer. As always, you gave us great advice.
Fluent SMTP is better its free and stats as well as multiple connections.
Also from a reputed developer.
It is also brand new. :)
@Vinay Agreed, I'm a big fan of WP ManageNinja, but WP Offload SES is no slouch either. The team at Delicious Brains is extremely talented and reputable.
That said, I do plan to make a FluentSMTP video as well.
@@dave-swift Looking forward to it. Thanks.