New application makes Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) available to everyone

March 3, 2011 - PRLog -- There's a new utility which allows users to send emails from SMTP clients such as Outlook and Exchange using Amazon SES.  Amazon’s new Simple Email Service (SES) is only accessible to people able to write code to call the Amazon SES functions.  Amazon also provide some Perl Scripts which if you are a Linux and Postfix guru you can use to create an SMTP service to send emails via SES.  But what if you’re not?  

It makes SES (and the up to 2,000 free emails a day) available to anyone who wants to send emails. This could be a single person organization with a volume newsletter up to the corporation which wants Marketing to distribute information.  A concern might be that this is an opportunity for spammers, however Amazon’s SES monitors the quality of emails being sent by measuring rejections, bounces and complaints and will limit access by users who attempt to misuse this service.

The benefit of our utility is:

•   Acts as an SMTP 'smart host' and SES gateway for any SMTP client
•   Run as a Windows service or can be run on the desktop
•   Allows you to define the Amazon account through which SES emails are sent
•   Allow an administrator to send an email to request a statistics report
•   Allows an administrator to add, delete and list verified addresses by sending an email to a predefined email address
•   Automatically removes headers added by MS Exchange which are not supported by SES (such as the non-standard ‘acceptlanguage’ header it includes and which Amazon rejects)
•   Spools received messages to disk and queues them to be sent to SES
•   Relays emails via SES using multiple threads so potentially many emails may be uploading at the same time
•   Automatically limits the sending rate to the limit reported by Amazon SES

With two one off prices - either $16 for desktop or $160 for the enterprise version we think this provides value for money.  For more information please visit http://www.lyquidity.com/smtp4amazonses/

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Lyquidity is an international technology company which has recently formed a division specifically to look at new, emerging technologies and how they can be used. This specialist division is at present finding ways to utilize Amazon's Simple Email Service (SES) email service, as well as Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) offerings.