Amazon SES

Currently it costs 1 cent (US $0.01) to send 100 emails (see: https://aws.amazon.com/ses/pricing/). If you are using amazon EC2 service, the first 62,000 mails are free. Attachments costs $0.12 per GB of information.

Any emails sent to incorrect email address gets bounced and will be reported as bounced emails by Amazon SES. In contrast, if the email recepient marks your email as spm, a complaint message will be sent to you by Amazon SES module.

1. If you have not setup an account with Amazon yet, you can sign up with a free tier account at https://portal.aws.amazon.com/billing/signup. The free version allows you to send 62,000 emails per month for one year.
2. While signing up, select the region that is closest to you.
3. After you have completed the signup process head over to amazon SES (https://aws.amazon.com/ses/)
4. In the search bar, type search for email service and select the Amazon simple email service option.

   

5. Now you need to verify your email address (which will allow you to send emails only from that address) or an entire domain (that will help you send emails from any address in that domain).
6. To verify the email address, click on the Configuration and then on Verified identities on the left menu. Then click on the Create identity button

   

7. On the next screen select the Email address option and enter your email address and then click on Create identity.

   

8. To verify a domain, click on Domains from the left menu

   

9. You will be presented with another screen to verify information in your DNS (domain name server)

   

10. You can access this information from the company where your domain is hosted. When you have setup this information, go back to the Domains and select the newly setup domain and click on Verify a New Domain.

    

11. After you setup the email account, you will be ready to send test emails from this account. Amazon initially restricts you to send emails only to verified email address or a simulated email address. You are also restricted to send maximum of 200 email messages per day and 1 message per second. To get around this restriction, you must request the production access (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/DeveloperGuide/request-production-access.html?icmpid=docs_ses_console)
12. After you get the production access, you will be ready to send emails via smtp SES. Before you do that you will need to create an SMTP account in amazon SES. To do this, on the amazon SES screen click on Email Settings from the left menu and click on Create my SMTP Credentials.

    

13. Click on Create

    

14. Now click on Show SMTP security credential to show the password. You can also download and save it in a safe place. Note: Amazon will not show this password again. If you forget it, you will have to create it again.

    

15. Now it is time to setup OfficeClip Integration with Amazon SES to use it with OfficeClip Campaigns.

1. Login to OfficeClip and Click on Settings > Integration and then click on Settings inside the Amazon SES Integration application. Note: Amazon SES integration is only supported on the Enterprise Edition of OfficeClip.

   

2. On the details screen, click on the Install button to activate the Amazon SES integration.

   

3. When installed you will be directed to the Initial Setup screen.

   

   Fill in the information here from the Amazon SES settings:
   1. In Amazon SES, click on the SMTP settings from the left menu and then add the Server Name from there to the OfficeClip Initial Screen. Next, add the user name and password from the saved password (that you copied in a previous step) to this screen.

      

   2. Finally, on Amazon SES, click on Sending Statistics menu and then copy the Sending Quota and Max Send Rate from there.

      

4. Click on Next to setup the App to capture bounced emails. To do this you will first need to setup the Amazon SES to send information regarding the bounced emails to OfficeClip. In Amazon SES setup screen click on Domains or Email Addresses from the left bar (depending on how you have set it up initially). Now click on the email address or the domain that you want to use and click on the Notification to expand it and then click on Edit Configuration.

   

5. In the Edit Notification screen, select Bounce Topic, Complaint Topic, Email Send Topic and enable the Include Original Headers checkbox in each of them. Also, disable the radio button of Email Feedback Forwarding. Finally click on Save Config button.

   

6. Next type SNS at the top search windows in side Amazon AWS and then click on Simple Notification Service to get to the SNS screen. Next click on the Topics in the left frame. It should show you three topics that we set up earlier. Next click on the BounceTopic link.

   

7. In the next screen click on Create Subscription. In the Create Subscription screen, on the Protocol, select HTTPS (or http if https is not used with OfficeClip).
8. Copy the Url from the OfficeClip Bounce wizard step.

   

9. And paste it in the Endpoint field in the Amazon screen. Next click on the checkbox that says "Enable raw message delivery".

   

10. Finally click on Create Subscription button on the Amazon Create Subscription screen at the bottom right.
11. Refresh the Subscription screen and it should show as Confirmed.
12. In OfficeClip click on the Next button and setup the Complaints in the same way you had set up the Bounce earlier by clicking on the ComplaintTopic in the Amazon SNS screen and copying the url supplied by OfficeClip.
13. In OfficeClip click on the Next button and setup the Delivery in the same way you had set up the Bounce earlier by clicking on the EmailSendTopic in the amazon SNS screen and copying the url supplied by OfficeClip.
14. In OfficeClip integration to test all the settings we have done so far.
    1. Add an email address to the Test SMTP Connection field (note that you must use an amazon SES verified email address here) and click on Send Test Email. You should be able to get a success message indicating OfficeClip can send emails via SMTP using Amazon SES. If there is an error, an error message will be shown here.
    2. In OfficeClip click on the Next button and setup the Complaints in the same way you had set up the Bounce earlier by clicking on the ComplaintTopic in the amazon SNS screen and copying the url supplied by OfficeClip.

       

15. Finally click on the Finish button to complete the setup.

1. Create a new Campaign in the Campaign Designer. See: How to Create New Campaign
2. Send Campaign Email using the Amazon SES Integration Account

   

3. The campaign will now be queued and sent to the recepients.
4. To track deliveries, bounces and complaints see the following article: How to Track Campaign Email History