--- [ "Forrest Christian (List Account)" <[email protected]> wrote ] ----------------------------------- I'm a little confused here..
Let's say you're sending 100K messages a day. If these are going through SES (like they seem to be), then aren't you going to get charged the prices listed at http://aws.amazon.com/ses/pricing/ for this traffic? I.E. 0.10 per thousand messages ($10/day $300/month), $0.12 per GB of attachments, plus some amount for data transfer... -forrest On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 9:55 AM, Animal Farm <[email protected]> wrote: > --- [ Paul McCall <[email protected]> wrote ] > ----------------------------------- > Forrest, that is exactly what we did. > > The relative setup was easy. Flowing the email through Amazon.... > ummmm... not so much. Getting them to bless 100,000 emails a day required > very specific setup within Amazon to get that to fly. 200 message > responses x 500+ users... etc. we have a 500K message limit per day, but > its never peaked over 120K according to Brian. > > I think we taught Amazon upper level techs something in the process, haha > > We'll get there on the issue From field saying Animal Farm" only. > > Paul > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, September 15, 2014 11:31 AM > To: Paul McCall > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Official Annoucement - AFMUG list change > > --- [ "Forrest Christian (List Account)" <[email protected]> wrote ] > ----------------------------------- > I agree. Kinda curious what prompted that choice. Personally I would > have probably just done the brute force approach of spinning up an ec2 > instance running postfix + mailman. > On Sep 15, 2014 9:21 AM, "Animal Farm" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > --- [ Jon Auer <[email protected]> wrote ] > > ----------------------------------- > > Wait, you're using SES to handle outbound for a listserv? > > That's a interesting architectural choice. > > On Sep 15, 2014 8:39 AM, "Animal Farm" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > --- [ Paul McCall <[email protected]> wrote ] > > > ----------------------------------- > > > The list is "switching" over to being hosted on PDMNet's Amazon > > > Cloud environment today. For the moment, there are some things that > > > will look different, such as the From field showing just Animal Farm. > > > > > > To fix that, we have to work with Amazon's custom API to automatically > > > make each subscriber become a "trusted" sender. It's a little more > > > complicated than that brief description, but we are working towards > that. > > > > > > In the meanwhile, the sender's info will appear at the top of each > > message. > > > > > > Paul > > > > > > Paul McCall, Pres. > > > PDMNet / Florida Broadband > > > 658 Old Dixie Highway > > > Vero Beach, FL 32962 > > > 772-564-6800 office > > > 772-473-0352 cell > > > www.pdmnet.com<http://www.pdmnet.com/> > > > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > > > > > > > > >
