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Does Amazon SES work on this host?

October 12, 2013 5.2k views
Hi, Can we use Amazon SES as an email sending provider through this hosting? Thanks!
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akurczyk October 12, 2013
Why not?
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tashabbus October 12, 2013
Sorry for this dummy question because I am new on such matters. How should I make it work? Where do I get things like port number, server name that I need to connect to Amazon SES?
By the way, what is the email sending limitations on Digitalocean hosting?

Thanks.
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pablo October 13, 2013
"Where do I get things like port number, server name...."

You set these yourself.

"By the way, what is the email sending limitations on Digitalocean hosting?"

You cannot send SPAM.
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mick254264 October 13, 2013
We use SES from our Droplets, no problem. If you just need to send emails, SES offers SMTP connection which makes integration super easy.
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  • daltracllc April 29, 2015

    mick254264, so you are able to send emails with SES from a droplet? When I tried to do it from the droplet, I always get this error:

    to=my@email.com, relay=none, delay=592, delays=592/0.07/0/0, dsn=4.4.3, status=deferred (Host or domain name not found. Name service error for name=email-smtp.us-east-1.amazonaws.com type=MX: Host not found, try again)

    But when I do it from EC2 instance, it works fine.

    Both droplet and EC2 have identical postfix settings.

    Any idea? Please advise!

    Thanks so much.

timlaranch October 14, 2013
Where do I get things like port number, server name that I need to connect to Amazon SES?
>> from Amazon
By the way, what is the email sending limitations on Digitalocean hosting?
>> That's pretty clear in the Digital Ocean TOS/EULA: no spam, don't do anything that results in blacklisting.
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ankitpr89 October 29, 2014

Yes Absolutely,

Rather than building complete SMTP server, we have used Digital Ocean superfast SSD server and Amazon SES to send a Million mails few week back at cost of $100 only!

I have made this complete guide on how to here:
http://www.tech-tweak.com/

Let me know if you want to have same configuration. I would be happy to help you out.

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ankitpr89 October 29, 2014
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daltracllc May 7, 2015

I have found a solution that fixed this problem. Here it is: http://www.oneminuteinfo.com/2015/05/postfix-host-or-domain-name-not-found.html

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