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Using SES best practices

Using SES best practices

- Some best practices for SES that I've noted down here. Ask yourself, "Would I personally want to receive this message I am about to send?" If you are in one of these industries listed on the bottom of the slide here, home mortgage, credit, adult entertainment, things like that, where spam is more likely to occur, then you need to keep an eye on your reputation very closely. Use a thoughtful from address, don't use a no-reply address. Also, by the way, these recommendations, these best practices, are coming from Amazon. These are not Nick's best practice recommendations for SES. These are Amazon's recommended best practice if you are a user of the SES service, and they recommend not to use a no-reply address. Use subdomains for different types of communication. So orders.example.com or marketing.example.com, and your reply address could be support@orders.example.com. Keep an eye on your WHOIS information in your domain registrar to ensure that if somebody needs to contact you for…

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