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How do I lower my SES bounce?

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How do I lower my SES bounce?

To stop the bounce rate from increasing, you must identify the email addresses that are causing the bounces. To do this, you can configure bounce notifications using an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic. From the SNS notifications, find the email addresses that are resulting in bounces.

How do I handle AWS SES bounces and complaints?

Configuration

  1. Create an Amazon SQS queue named ses-bounces-queue.
  2. Create an Amazon SNS topic named ses-bounces-topic.
  3. Configure the Amazon SNS topic to publish to the SQS queue.
  4. Configure Amazon SES to publish bounce notifications using ses-bounces-topic to ses-bounces-queue.

What is bounce rate SES?

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Amazon SES recommends that you maintain a bounce rate under 5\%. Amazon SES might pause your account’s ability to send emails if your bounce rate is greater than 10\%. We recommend that you set the bounce rate threshold at 0.05 (5\%). Amazon SES recommends that you maintain a complaint rate under 0.1\%.

How do I check my AWS SES status?

Check your SNS notifications and CloudWatch metrics

  1. Open the inbox of the email address that you used as the endpoint for your Amazon SNS topic subscription.
  2. Open the CloudWatch console.
  3. In the navigation pane, choose Metrics.
  4. From the All metrics view, choose SES.
  5. Choose the metric that you created.

How do I handle a bounced SES email?

Set up AWS components to handle bounce notifications:

  1. Create an Amazon SQS queue named ses-bounces-queue.
  2. Create an Amazon SNS topic named ses-bounces-topic.
  3. Configure the Amazon SNS topic to publish to the SQS queue.
  4. Configure Amazon SES to publish bounce notifications using ses-bounces-topic to ses-bounces-queue.
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How do you handle bounce?

6. Seven Tips to Lower Bounce Rate

  1. Do not buy, rent or harvest email addresses.
  2. Use a confirmed opt-in process.
  3. Verify your existing list.
  4. Monitor delivery by domains.
  5. Check your message against spam filters.
  6. Remove repeated soft bounce emails.
  7. Allow users to change their email address with you.

What happens when an email bounces?

A bounced email is any email message rejected by a recipient’s mail server and returned to the original sender. A bounced email means that your message has not been delivered, and when this happens the mailer receives a notification of non-delivery.

How do I check my SES email log?

To get logs or notifications about your email-sending events on Amazon SES, use one of the following configurations:

  1. Use email feedback forwarding.
  2. Use an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic to send notifications about Amazon SES events.

What are bounces and complaints?

What exactly are email bounces and complaints? Bounce email happens when an is returned to the sender because it cannot be delivered for some reason. Complaints are reports made by email recipients against emails they don’t want in their inbox.

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How you maintain your recipient lists and how you manage bounces complaints and unsubscribe requests?

Steps to request AmazonSES to increase your sending quota. Before getting started, sign in to your AWS Console. If you don’t have an AWS account yet, please visit Signing up free for AWS.

What should I do with bounced email addresses?

Undeliverable

  • Try sending an email to the “Undeliverable” email address again. If the address keeps bouncing, you should remove it from your lists.
  • If possible, get in touch with the contact to see if they have a new email address.