Hi,

I really enjoy this awesome module, congrats.
I'm using smtp module to send emails via Amazon SES and it works really well except for one small detail:
For new users Amazon SES enforces sending rates, when you are a new domain sending emails you don't have a reputation and if you send great amounts of emails your chances of bouncing are high, because you'll be treated as a spammer.
As long as you send emails Amazon SES increases your sending rates

As of now, my initial sending rate is:
Max Send Rate: 5 emails/second

I'm using dev version of smtp module to be able to send emails via drupal queues, which is working really well.
But some emails are failing when it sends on a rate greater than 5 emails/second.

So, it would be great if you implement configurable sending emails rates.
And as long as Amazon SES increases the sending rate, users can setup smtp module send rate accordingly.

Thanks in advance

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fox_01 commented
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Please let us know if you found a solution for your problem

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alexandrezia commented

Hi @fox_01,

Actually I stopped using this module.
Without sending rate control it is not suitable to use with Amazon SES.
I've returned to default Drupal's sending mail through 'sendmai' command.
Then I've implemented sending rate control in postfix.
Postfix is configured to send emails through Amazon SES, authenticating, TLS enforcing and rate controlling.
I'm also using Chef to automate all my servers and all I had to do was adding postfix into Chef. (http://www.getchef.com/chef/)

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wundo commented
Status: Active » Closed (works as designed)

Closing very old (dead) issues, if you think this is still relevant please re-open.