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Comment by giu | Hacker News Reader

Looks good from a first look at it, congrats on launching it!

Just checked if you mention bounces and saw that you track bounces; how does your app show / keep track of the bounces and more importantly of the bounce rate in general?

I'm mentioning this since Amazon SES will place your account under review if your bounce rate is 5% or greater; you can find a few useful links on this comment thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21955614

Best of luck with your app!

Disclaimer: I was responsible for the implementation of an e-mail notification system using Amazon SES.

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I made my own SES mailer...

You can subscribe to post backs from SES. These post back tell you message-by-message if a message was delivered/bounced.. so "simple" process of storing the results. Need to track the unique message ID, some you might get multiple responses for the same message (e.g. delivered, then marked spam)

There might also be a CLI call to get summary stats.

Exactly, that's what we did with our solution, too; we maintaned our own bounce list with a TTL that we kept up-to-date by subscribing to SNS notifications generated by SES.

My question was aimed towards the bounces feature presented on the app homepage [0]; if you ignore (or don't realize the importance of) the bounce rate you might shoot yourself in the foot.

[0] https://www.sendsimple.app/#features_div

Could just use the SES dashboard I guess:

https://i.imgur.com/htmcpUP.jpg

yes

No, this is not the way to handle this. Please read up on how you must treat bounces on AWS SES or you face an account stop/closure. E.g. you MUST remove addresses from future sending once they permanently bounce.

Offering a software solution without offering a feature for correct bounce handling is just naive.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/DeveloperGuide/monito...

Thank gui, we don't track bounces right now but i will surely add it soon, thanks for sharing about amazon ses its helpful

Your features list is a bit misleading, then. On your app's homepage you specifically mention the tracking of bounces as part of the app's features.

I'm all for launching early and so on, but I have a feeling that this is a rather important feature to simply be omitted in the beginning, especially in regard to Amazon SES and their handling of exceeding bounce rates.

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