Free Amazon SES SMTP for WordPress

Amazon SES is an affordable SMTP service with incredibly high email deliverability. Connect Amazon SES API and enjoy reliable email delivery with FluentSMTP!

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What is Amazon SES?

Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) is a cloud-based email infrastructure that helps send emails at an affordable cost. You can use Amazon SES to send your transactional and marketing emails from WordPress via FluentSMTP.

How to Send WordPress Emails Using Amazon SES?

Easily set up Amazon SES SMTP in WordPress and start sending your marketing and transactional emails by following a few simple steps!

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Login/Sign Up

Sign up for Amazon SES in a few seconds or log in to your AWS account. If you don’t have an IAM account, you need to create one.

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Verify Domain

Verify your domain in the AWS management console by updating your domain’s DNS settings and verify your email with Amazon SES

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Get Security Credentials

Create a new user and attach Amazon SES Full access from the AWS cloud console. Then collect your security API credentials.

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Request Production Access

Amazon SES generally place new users in the sandbox mode. If you’re in sandbox mode, request production access to remove sending limits.

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Configure SMTP

Go to FluentSMTP setup wizard and configure Amazon SES with FluentSMTP using your AWS security credentials

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Test Email Delivery

Send a test email to your email address from FluentSMTP and check if your email sends correctly. If yes, you’re good!

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Why Amazon SES SMTP for WordPress?

Amazon SES comes with some advantages and disadvantages. Compare the pros and cons to see if it’s for you.

Pros

  • Amazon SES is dirt-cheap, costing only 0.10 per 1000 emails
  • Trusted infrastructure ensures your emails reach their destination
  • Once set up, Amazon SES doesn’t require additional maintenance
  • Get all kinds of tools to manage your email deliverability reputation
  • Full control over email receiving and handling

Cons

  • Initial Amazon SES configuration can be challenging
  • It may limit your email sending by placing you in the sandbox mode
  • The documentation is poorly written. can be difficult to navigate.

Pricing

Compare MailGun pricing and choose which suits you!

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“There’s no reason not to switch to FluentSMTP at this point. It’s just totally free and it is the best option for WordPress right now!”

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“Even though you have a lot of features, there’s no bloat. I use FluentSMTP on all my websites and I highly recommend it!”

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“FluentSMTP really helped us out and all the emails are correctly ending up in the recipient’s inbox rather than the spam folder”

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Five stars all the way! @saiftheboss7

Great product that is fully open source and is consistently adding new features. Plugins like these are making WordPress and the community better for everyone. Five stars all the way!

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Transformed my email delivery experience! @limecomet

If you want to ensure your emails always reach their intended recipients, I wholeheartedly recommend giving Fluent SMTP a try. It’s been a real asset to my website, and I couldn’t be happier with the results!

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Switching all my client sites over to this one! @amgill

Have been using “the other” SMTP plugin for years and all of a sudden it stopped delivering emails. Moved to Fluent and quickly got emails working again with no issues. Thank you. I am switching all my client sites over to this one!

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This plugin is a godsend! @omariusa

I used to work with another SMTP plugin that did not give free access to the logs, It was pretty much useless since not having access to the logs made it very hard to troubleshoot tricky issues during production. Thank you!

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A must-have plugin for all websites @reversehsalf

FluentSMTP is an excellent plugin that improves with each update. Despite being a free plugin, it offers so many Pro features. Thank you for creating this plugin.

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Designed with clarity and functionality in mind @peteraloha

This plugin is designed with clarity and functionality in mind. An excellent job! – Plugin Authors are excellent in support: Polite, fast, knowledgeable!
Can’t stress enough how granular and effective this plugins author is, truly committed to help users to enjoy their objectives to be met!

Looking for Amazon SES Alternatives?

Want to compare or simply looking for options? We’ve got you!

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SendGrid SMTP

Send effortlessly with SendGrid’s robust features and consistent performance. Trust SendGrid’s proven email infrastructure for accurate WordPress email delivery

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MailGun SMTP

MailGun’s cost-efficient, developer-friendly email solution offers powerful SMTP and API capabilities to ensure smooth WordPress email management.

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Postmark SMTP

Postmark’s timely delivery of transactional and marketing emails guarantees that your important messages reach users without delay.

Elastic Email

Elastic Email

Elastic Email’s cost-effective SMTP service is designed to handle your WordPress emails with reliability and ease at affordable budget.

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Frequently Asked Questions

You can send WordPress emails using Amazon SES. Simply sign up and configure it with FluentSMTP to start sending!

Amazon SES is free to start but the fee is calculated pay-as-you-go. Generally, it costs $0.10 per 1000 emails

FluentSMTP is free and will always be free. All of its features including SMTP connections, email logging, multiple SMTP,  fallback connection, etc., are free. There are no limits to the number of emails you can send.

Amazon SES offers reliable email deliverability with excellent email reputation control features so you can send marketing emails with Amazon SES.

Amazon SES may require some information to verify if you’re a genuine user and not some spammer. You need to provide appropriate information to get out of Amazon SES Sandbox.

Amazon SES documentation can be hard to grasp however, we have detailed documentation to help you integrate Amazon SES with WordPress.

Some of the best Amazon SES alternatives are— MailGun, Elastic Mail, SendGrid, Postmark.