Send Marketing Emails For Basically Zero Dollars - Mautic + AWS SES

[@husodaroo2959]

I've seen this video like for the thousandth time and have no idea what am I doing, just following the step-by-step... but looks like I've complete the setup.

[@tsadickmelehoff9081]

By far the best instructional video about Mautic. I would like to ask You to create in-depth Mautic videos about ALL features. Thank You for a very Great teaching approach. Very easy to understand for people like me (just normal)

[@dave-swift]

Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed the video. I hope to make more videos about Mautic in the future.

[@Jezpigott]

Woop Woop! Thanks for following through and creating this video. Love the Mautic dev stuff.

[@dave-swift]

More to come!

[@byrne1916]

AWS has had an interface update, but your tutorial is still good imo. You speak really well, nice clear and easy to follow, thanks.

[@BenOLearyFoReal]

Thanks Dave - useful. For anyone in the UK / other areas of Europe - The confirmation with SNS only happens if you're using Ireland EU-west-1 AWS/SES/SNS. If you set thing up with west-2 then it just doesn't work. ALSO if you abandoned configing Mautic to use Amazon SES SMTP, and got SES working as "Other SMTP" then that also won't work - SES has to configured on west-1 too.

[@rabiibrahimi]

Is that mean we can't use any other areas like london west etc ?

[@CsikungGyakorlatok]

@@rabiibrahimi I was assigned EU North 1 ( Stockholm) and managed to connect

[@rabiibrahimi]

@@CsikungGyakorlatok thanks for sharing that with me 👌

[@CsikungGyakorlatok]

you're wellcome!@@rabiibrahimi

[@planorarmadesign5522]

Have to say, you did a bang up job on this video. It's perfect, and helped get me off the ground quick with Mautic + SES. Thank you Dave!

[@dave-swift]

Thanks! I'm going to release an entire course on Mautic soon, stay tuned ;)

[@planorarmadesign5522]

@@dave-swift That's a great idea, and something sorely needed I think...esp. for people with no email marketing automation experience. As you said in another video, Mautic's learning curve can be daunting. Videos using the latest (V3) version will be a big help for many.

[@ProfessorSaibertin]

Hey, thanks for the awesome tutorial. I have already set everything up, just I do not exactly understand how the SNS gonna notify me about bounces etc. - will I be receiving emails when some emails bounce etc.?

[@GauravDhimanG]

Great video Dave - Thanks Request - Please create a video for Mautic with Sparkpost on EC2

[@greglumley8249]

Your explanations are excellent. Thank you.

[@dave-swift]

Glad you liked the video! 🙏

[@sucenamidias356]

Dude you save my week, its been days I'm stuck on this... thought username was my email aws username.

[@dave-swift]

Glad it was of help! Have a great weekend.

[@walemara]

You are awesome, man! thank you for all the effort in creating those videos.

[@dave-swift]

Thanks! Glad you like them!

[@andresberger6240]

Excellent video, but when I got to SNS, it is totally different from your video and I couldnt continue because I don't understand what is happening.....

[@seyisland]

Amazing tutorial, fast, clear and perfectly explained. Thanks!!

[@dave-swift]

wow thanks! Glad it was helpful to you.

[@seyisland]

@@dave-swift Yep. I "hacked" the /apps/bundles/EmailBundle/Form/Type/ConfigType.php" because the selectbox of mautic doesn't have the option to choose "eu-west-2" by default. After that all was fine

[@peakminute]

Great walkthrough, however Amazon SES declined to increase my sending quota. What would you recommend: to create new AWS account and try one more time or move to the next service?

[@scottrerickson]

You should make a video on clearing the mautic cache!

[@interlinklanguagecentre3064]

This is super duper and it is really power house as you have stated. Thanks so much for the great job.

[@deeptikumawat7288]

This is fantastic tutorial! Loved it.

[@dave-swift]

Thanks Deepti! Means a lot coming from you! I've heard great things about your Mautic install and support services.

[@Jezpigott]

Hey can you cover more open source marketing tools in the future also? Not all of them, just the ones worth their salt, like perhaps perfex crm?

[@dave-swift]

I like the idea of continuing to cover self hosted tools for DIYers, but Perfex isn't open source (but it is self hosted). It's a Code Canyon script... I'd need to spend some time with it to see if it's worthwhile.

[@daniyalkhan3467]

I was exactly looking for that and you did a great job 👍🏻

[@halbertech]

Nice video Dave. I would like to point out that if Mautic is installed on shared hosting, you might not be able to use SES SMTP. So, probably best to check with your host to see if outbound SMTP is permitted. In mautic 3.1 or higher the SES API option is available and works well if SMTP isn't permitted.

[@dave-swift]

Thanks Halbertech, this video was made before the API option was released. It still s houldn't be an issue using SMTP because it is not sending on your server. I wouldn't recommend Mautic on a shared host though!

[@halbertech]

@@dave-swift I hear you on shared hosting, but I am confident to perform this with my host that manages it's shared hosting better than most. My host does not allow SMTP with SES on my account. They were very specific about how to connect Mautic with SES api successfully. Every attempt to use SMTP SES failed with my host. Really enjoying Mautic 3.2.4.

[@CsikungGyakorlatok]

@@dave-swift why don't you recommend it?

[@MyIMPlace]

Thank you for the tutorial. Looks like it's what I needed.

[@freakenstein_nl]

Awesome. I've got the same setup, but this helped to fine-tune it.

[@dave-swift]

Glad it helped!

[@techtonic1814]

Brilliant.Is there any other way to setup bounce mail handling instead of Amazon Notification Service?

[@dave-swift]

Yes, check out this page for directions: docs.mautic.org/en/channels/emails/bounce-management

[@luismarrafon1]

Hi! Thanks a lot for this content. I have a problema and would love if someone could help me out. When I click "Test connection", Mautic sends me an error message that it could not establish the connection with the amazon host. The user, password, port, region are all right. I'm in sendbox, but don't know if this has anything to do with this problem. Thanks!

[@MusicAlireza]

That was really helpful. Thank you!

[@dave-swift]

Glad it was helpful! I have a new Mautic course coming out soon that has an updated SES configuration :)

[@sugengnurhadi]

great videos, my I asking you out of the your content video above, I have setting campaign in mautic with create email series, but the first day all email was send , the problem is the day 2 the email doesn't send at all, can you help me what the problem and how to solved thank you sugeng

[@janituma9769]

Great video, thx 👍 Question, what if a user response to my email which I sent him ? Does this work, because of smtp ? Can you provide a solution how the user can respond to the received email ? Or is adding another aws service is needed to get a respond from a user ?

[@NeedForSpread]

Hi man. Nice video! I have the exact configuration with Mautic and Amazon ses but i don't know for what reason all my emails sent to Gmail are going to spam folder. Do you have any idea how to fix this?

[@dave-swift]

Make sure you've validated your domain and added DKIM records. After that, check GlockApps for more guidance :)

[@lupitasastretransbordadord5418]

hi, thanks for the tutorial, I have a question I have configured my domain and email in the ohio region a long time ago I requested the increase of emails but it was denied, lately I did verification with dkim and everything is verified but it is in a sandbox environment, I see that it also appears the east zone of virginia but there I do not have any verified identity or the SNS, if I wanted to use this region and ask for the increase, should I do the domain registration again and the other steps? Although it is the same one that you use, I would appreciate your answer.

[@capiacapital2561]

Great info! Quick question, I have a Google domain and G suite email, google already added the dkim records by default, should change it as you did yours?

[@dave-swift]

yes, you’ll need to modify them because now you’re sending through AWS as well as Gsuite. :)

[@codigolimpo.]

Hi, fantastic content! Just a question: Why do we use the same topic for Bounces, Deliveries and Complaints? Wouldn't we have to create a topic for each one?

[@dave-swift]

Thanks! Nope, there is no need for separate topics!

[@varungupta4754]

After linking website url with AWS SES, do I also need a VPS for dedicated IP. Or which IP will be use if I don't use dedicated VPS.

[@tsadickmelehoff9081]

Also. I anything should I do in Mautic itself after configuring SNS?

[@dave-swift]

Nope!

[@camilogarcia2172]

hello thaks for all. I update is denied .What can I do for this?

[@Robmobius]

Awesome - but my SNS subscription won't confirm. I have checked that allis as per your TUT video but no joy. Any suggestions? Do I need an additional cron in mautic? Is there some Mautic step I have missed?

[@dave-swift]

No other steps in Mautic. Make sure you typed the webhook correctly (look in your mautic configruation to find out if your URL has index.php in it.)

[@Mat-kh7yp]

I followed your video and got approved for transactional emails using wp offload. Do I have to go through the application process again for marketing emails?

[@dave-swift]

Nope, you're good to go!

[@rabiibrahimi]

Hey Dave, Thanks for sharing the video, very useful. Would this configuration still work or anything changed ? Thanks

[@dave-swift]

Hey @rabiibrahimi5992, essentially the same! I can't remember exactly, but I think the webhook may have changed? Check the Mautic docs here for the current webhook URL. docs.mautic.org/en/channels/emails/bounce-management#amazon-webhook

[@rabiibrahimi]

Thanks@@dave-swift i appreciate your reply. will check the documentation.

[@rabiibrahimi]

thanks@@dave-swift i appreciate your reply. will check documentation.

[@dave-swift]

No problem. Good luck!

[@DaleThomasNYC]

FYI - I couldn't get the callback to get confirmed until I change the path to mailer/amazon_api/callback then I got an immediate confirmation.

[@olumose5438]

I tried that as well and it didn't work

[@INTEDeducation]

Thanks, Dale. Same issue, same solution.

[@luckyriskofficial]

You mentioned a Facebook group. Is there a link to it? I don’t see it in the description

[@dave-swift]

facebook.com/groups/profitabletool/

[@videomarketinghamburg]

Thank you...

[@dave-swift]

You're welcome! Thanks for the comment. 👍

[@30sev31]

wonderful tutorials dave. I have to download your video, paused several times to catch up with the settings and eventually got everything right. Waiting for amazon to kick me out of sandbox. What i dont know now, the SNS setting is useful for what? since we disable notification. Will it automatically delete the bounces or what? Thanks.

[@dave-swift]

Hi Dan -- The SNS setting conencts to mautic so that you know when your emails bounce or someone complains of spam.

[@WolstonLobo]

@@dave-swift Once you have the list of bounced emails, do you need to manually remove them or does Mautic automatically do it for you?

[@GigGigJigolo]

I know this video was created a while ago, but isn't it only free as long as you're running Mautic on a EC2 instance?

[@dave-swift]

That’s correct!

[@edalarconreal]

Great video! Is anybody using ses for cold email marketing. I see a lot of videos about it??? Have you had any isues? Do not want to get my account cancelled. I have typically 4-7% bounce in my cold campaigns. Do not intent to send 10k emails a day, perhaps around 2-3k wiht different warmed up domains. Thanks

[@davidfinley9429]

Good stuff!

[@dave-swift]

Thanks!

[@cbcsurvivalguide]

Hi, can you create automation email sequences with mautic? I have over 50+ pre-written emails that I want to put into an email sequence for my newsletter. Adding in each individual email onto the mautic timeline + future emails would mean that I would have a huge map that would continue to expand making it difficult to manage.

[@dave-swift]

Yes, you can create automation sequences. Mautic calls them campaigns.

[@cbcsurvivalguide]

@@dave-swift Hmm... I just tried to create a campaign but it looks like I can't stack the email sequences within each automation :(

[@1anchit]

Wow, so this gets confusing. I just signed up for MOOSEND for my wordpress blog. Now it doesnt have smtp in free plan. I setup hello@ my domain name in Zoho since cloudways hosting doesnt give emails. Now here who sends the emails? I would like newsletter emails, upcoming courses coupons. If someone purchases membership which I will add later, I wopuld like them to get those emails of purchase and follow ups. I would also like to send automation based emails which are setup in moosend. Is mautic same as moosend software? Amazon ses I feel is only email sending service. How do I link that to hosting/zoho/moosend? :(

[@dave-swift]

Mautic and moosend are both email marketing tools. Yes. You don’t receive emails from your marketing software. You can use soho as your work mail (Zoho in your case) for communicating with clients, colleges, etc.

[@FranckChanda]

I got this message "Expected response code 250 but got code "554", with message "554 Message rejected: Email address is not verified. The following identities failed the check-in region US-EAST-2: [e-mail]" How can I fix it?

[@NYC10008]

I've noticed that Amazon constantly restricts sending quotas, even with tiny bounce rate (or one account of mine which didn;t even have any sent campaigns). This makes Amazon completely unreliable. You waste a lot of work and labour on setting things up and they throttle you. What is a completely independent reliance on any service to send your email campaigns? Why is Mautic reliant on Amazon SES in the first place? Can it not run on its own on a vps?

[@dave-swift]

First, I have no encountered any issues with restricting sending quotas, I simple request an increase when needed. Second Mautic is not reliant on SES. It's simply the best choice for a transactional email service.

[@MiklosJobbagy]

Thanks for this comprehensive tutorial. However I tried to connect Amazon SES according to these instructions to a Mautic 4.4.0, and I got this error message: ""The request signature we calculated does not match the signature you provided. Check your AWS Secret Access Key and signing method. Consult the service documentation for details." I created the SMTP user in AWS, and copied the user and password. I chose Amazon SES API as a setting. I Googled a day, but did not find any solution. Can you tell me what did I miss? Thank you your answer in advance!

[@dave-swift]

Hi Miklos, sorry but this video is a few years old now and Mautic has integrated with Amazon SES via API. That is the preferred way to do things at this point. Create a user in AWS IAM and give it full SES permissions. That will provide you a username and password to use with the Mautic SES API connection.

[@MiklosJobbagy]

@@dave-swift Thanks for your answer. I tried, got "unable to connect" error message. Don't you have a video of how to set up this new mautic with amazon SES API?

[@dave-swift]

@@MiklosJobbagy Not specifically with Mautic but the steps are all the same covered in this video here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/p5_VhZeHgrOWq6M

[@MiklosJobbagy]

@@dave-swift Thank you for your help! Email sending works just fine now. THANKS!!!

[@dave-swift]

@@MiklosJobbagy happy to hear it!

[@rayanebenghalli1747]

Just trying to change my profile photo for Mautic user and I can’t find out how to anywhere!

[@dave-swift]

gravatar.com is the answer :)

[@mabhishek1975]

Hi, I like your video on setting up SES & SNS for Mautic, but do we can add different emails for 2-3 different sites, or we need one domain SMTP setup for all domains (sites) most video just show simple setup, but no one there to show setup for different domains (sites) using the same Mautic. i hope you will reply -Thanks -Abhishek

[@dave-swift]

Hi Abhishek, Once you have an SES account, you can add additional domains without having to get out of sandbox mode. Just go to SES and choose Domains. You can add as many as you'd like.

[@mabhishek1975]

Profitable Tools hi thanks for update,but how I can connect different domain on Mautic ? For example I setup Mautic on domain A, and connect Ses . Now how I connect B and C domain to send campaign for my 2 different sites?

[@bindumalik1010]

Hi i have a qurstion. My company uses office 365. How does it cost if i use office 365 smtp instead of ses

[@dave-swift]

It doesn't add any extra cost, but keep in mind Office 365 isn't meant for sending massive amounts of email. Office 365 has a limit of 30 message per minute. Additionally, I highly recommend using a service meant for bulk emails that connects via an API and not via SMTP.

[@AnhducmktSG]

I have issue when i use smtp. Do not connection between mautic and aws. Please help me. Error 111

[@dave-swift]

Check your server firewall, and open port 2587

[@wnywebdevelopment8757]

Can someone explain how to integrate contacts into Mautic using a optin form that is required by amazon ses?

[@dave-swift]

Darrin, if you're on WordPress you can use Fluent Forms (free version or pro if you'd like the extra features.) They have a free Mautic add-on. It works great. Here is the Fluent Forms site: profitable.tools/get/fluent-forms (affiliate)

[@wnywebdevelopment8757]

@@dave-swift I figured out how to implement a form through Mautic. I have another question though. I'm currently using GetEmails to obtain the emails of my site visitors.. Is there a way to setup Mautic to pull in visitor emails? I implemented the script to track by IP address but that seems pretty useless

[@power2money]

Hello. I need your help. In Mautic account i want to send test email, and after pressing green buton Send, i see this error in red collor: "Expected response code 250 but got code "554", with message "554 Message rejected: Email address is not verified. The following identities failed the check in region EU-WEST-1: [e-mail]". What i did wrong how i can to understand?

[@dave-swift]

It sounds like you're in sandbox mode. docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/DeveloperGuide/request-production-access.html

[@nicholassmith6412]

So do you just literally need Amazon SES and Mautic only, or do you also need to rent a VPS or something else to run Mautic so that the program knows when to send emails? (or is this done by the cron jobs?) A list of all the requirements to get fully set up and running would be helpful. Great video btw 👍

[@dave-swift]

There is a video on my channel on how to install Mautic on a VPS. Link is in the description of this video.

[@nicholassmith6412]

@@dave-swift But do you actually need to use a VPS, or can you get away with just using Amazon SES and Mautic only, without anything else?

[@dave-swift]

Mautic is software. It has to run on a computer connected to the internet (aka a server).

[@nicholassmith6412]

@@dave-swift True, but when you turn your computer off, will it still be able to send emails automatically, or do you need to leave Mautic running on a server somewhere? Or if setting up Cron Jobs allows emails to continually send, do you need a server to run the Cron Jobs?

[@dave-swift]

The server needs to be left on. This isn’t software you install on your home computer. It is a php application.

[@sureshiyengar1478]

Is there a way to allow contacts to reply to Mautic emails? Right now, the setting shows [e-mail] when they attempt to reply. Obviously, that would cause a bounce. What setting do we change in Mautic to allow contact replies to the "from" email or sender email.

[@dave-swift]

Click the gear icon, then Configuration. Under email settings, you will be able to enter a name and email address to send from. You can also change this on an email by email basis, under advance settings. (Channels > Email > Edit > Advanced) Make sure email is on the same domain or validated with SES.

[@sureshiyengar1478]

@@dave-swift I had to change on an e-mail by email basis. That worked. Thank you so much.

[@lloydjohnson558]

in my install ses is not a drop down option

[@dave-swift]

Email sending changed with Mautic v5. You need a plugin for SES now.

[@ljohnso16]

@@dave-swift I've tried it. It breaks mautic. What version did it work I'll us that instead

[@dave-swift]

Anything pre v5 used the old sending service.

[@carlharvey9482]

Can I send affiliate links with SES?

[@dave-swift]

Yes, but don't spam! Keep your deliverability high and your bounce rate low.

[@carlharvey9482]

@@dave-swift Cool, thank you for your advice!

[@power2money]

forgot to say, that email addres is verified

[@relexa_relax]

nice tutorial, but speaking not so fast would be even better. some parts could be better explained.

[@dave-swift]

Thanks for the comment -- Make sure you're utilizing the speed controls in KZbin! I hear all the time people who watch me at 2x, can't please them all :)

[@frix123]

why don't you just install your Own SMTP mail server on your VPS and have UNLIMITED FREE emails ?

[@dave-swift]

That's probably fine if your'e sending 10-20 emails in a go, but if you have thousands on your list you'll need a transactional email provide both for deliverability and server impact.

[@sirdelord02]

thank you

[@dave-swift]

You're welcome. 👍