Use of Amazon SES

Use of Amazon SES

Always on the lookout for mailing list applications, Amazon recently released their Simple Email Service (SES).

The developer guide shows an api using get and post commands to send an email

http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/ses/latest/DeveloperGuide/

Post example

POST / HTTP/1.1
Host: email.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 21:20:27 +0000
X-Amzn-Authorization: AWS3-HTTPS AWSAccessKeyId=AKIADQKE4EXAMPLE,Algorithm=HMACSHA256,Signature=lBP67vCvGlDMBQ=dofZxg8E8SUEXAMPLE   
Action=SendEmail
&Destination.ToAddresses.member.1=allan@example.com
&Message.Subject.Data=This is the subject line.
&Message.Body.Text.Data=Hello. I hope you are having a good day.

This looks like something we can build-in to a creator application. Unfortunately each email would be one post action, and we are limited to 500 per day. However, I guess this would be much less of a stain on ZOHO servers than sending emails via the sendmail command. This would push the mail queue to AWS.

Comments?

John M. Whitney