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AWS SES emails not reaching your business inbox?

AWS SES emails not reaching your business inbox?

via Dev.to WebdevLucian Patian

I invested some time in figuring out why my app running on AWS, using SES for sending emails was not working correctly. The strange behaviour was that for Gmail, it was working fine, for my work domain it was not delivered and I wasn't able to see any logs related to this on my corporate email server. So I started to check the standard stuff like: SES in prod mode? SES config, do I have a from address, am I using the correct region DKIM enabled? Custom "mail from" domain configured and valid No errors on the app side Checked the SES status for bounces and rejects Destination email address not being on the suppression list Everything seemed fine but the test emails were not reaching my business email address. So if Gmail gets the test email, it must be "them", right? The next step was to look into the SPF records, which is a DNS record that tells receiving mail servers "these are the only servers allowed to send email on behalf of our domain." If a server isn't on the list, the email ge

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