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smtp-amazon-ses

SMTP for Amazon SES – YaySMTP

Send WordPress emails through Amazon SES server using YaySMTP

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73 / 114 rows with source links

64.0% of this page's analysis has direct source links.

0 build-decision rows missing links

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41 rows with no attached evidence

0 rows have source counts but still need direct links.

Download Momentum

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Source Evidence

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complaint review · high severity · relevance 1.0
Broken in the recent installation

Broken in the recent installation: users show bugs, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: marketing teams, agencies, and lead-generation site owners · Wedge: monitor SMTP submissions, notification delivery, spam, and CRM handoffs
Proof Blocked card complete lead capture reliability Evidence linked to opportunity
Broken in the recent installation Does not work with MariaDB 10.6, fails to create table and errors-out.
mixed support · high severity · relevance 0.95
WordPress caught an error with one of your plugins, SMTP for AmazonSES – YaySMTP

WordPress caught an error with one of your plugins, SMTP for AmazonSES – YaySMTP: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: marketing teams, agencies, and lead-generation site owners · Wedge: monitor SMTP submissions, notification delivery, spam, and CRM handoffs
Proof Blocked card complete lead capture reliability Evidence linked to opportunity
WordPress caught an error with one of your plugins, SMTP for AmazonSES – YaySMTP I keep seeing a critical error when my site tries to send an email using this plugin.
complaint review · medium severity · relevance 0.8
500 error on activated

500 error on activated: users show bugs, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: marketing teams, agencies, and lead-generation site owners · Wedge: monitor SMTP submissions, notification delivery, spam, and CRM handoffs
Proof Blocked card complete lead capture reliability Evidence linked to opportunity
500 error on activated 500 error on activated this plugin.
mixed support · medium severity · relevance 0.78
Plugin doesn’t add replyto, and cc, nor bcc address

Plugin doesn’t add replyto, and cc, nor bcc address: users show bugs, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: marketing teams, agencies, and lead-generation site owners · Wedge: monitor SMTP submissions, notification delivery, spam, and CRM handoffs
Proof Blocked card complete lead capture reliability Evidence linked to opportunity
Plugin doesn’t add replyto, and cc, nor bcc address I was doing some tests and noticed that the plugin dosen’t send cc, bcc or replyto tags even though they are being sent.
mixed support · medium severity · relevance 0.78
Disable email delivery

Disable email delivery: users show missing feature, support, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: marketing teams, agencies, and lead-generation site owners · Wedge: monitor SMTP submissions, notification delivery, spam, and CRM handoffs
Proof Blocked card complete lead capture reliability Evidence linked to opportunity
Disable email delivery I see in your documentation that there are some additional settings including disable email delivery .
mixed support · medium severity · relevance 0.72
Force From checkbox issue

Force From checkbox issue: users show bugs, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: marketing teams, agencies, and lead-generation site owners · Wedge: monitor SMTP submissions, notification delivery, spam, and CRM handoffs
Proof Blocked card complete lead capture reliability Evidence linked to opportunity
Force From checkbox issue Hi, I seem to be having an issue with the force from email.
mixed support · medium severity · relevance 0.72
Can I add keys to CONFIG not DATABASE

The user wants AWS secret keys stored in wp-config instead of the database for security and says they modified the plugin themselves after support declined it.

Buyer: marketing teams, agencies, and lead-generation site owners · Wedge: monitor SMTP submissions, notification delivery, spam, and CRM handoffs
Proof Blocked card complete lead capture reliability Evidence linked to opportunity
keeping Secret Keys in the database is less secure than keeping the Keys in the wp-config.php file
mixed support · medium severity · relevance 0.72
Sort in header not working

Sort in header not working: users show bugs, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: marketing teams, agencies, and lead-generation site owners · Wedge: monitor SMTP submissions, notification delivery, spam, and CRM handoffs
Proof Blocked card complete lead capture reliability Evidence linked to opportunity
Sort in header not working When I try and sort the Email list by clicking the column headers the direction arrow changes but the sort order doesn’t change.
complaint review · medium severity · relevance 0.69
Look no further: the BEST Amazon SES SMTP plugin you’ll ever need

Look no further: the BEST Amazon SES SMTP plugin you’ll ever need: users show missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: marketing teams, agencies, and lead-generation site owners · Wedge: monitor SMTP submissions, notification delivery, spam, and CRM handoffs
Proof Blocked card complete lead capture reliability Evidence linked to opportunity
Look no further: the BEST Amazon SES SMTP plugin you’ll ever need I’ve used “WP Mail SMTP Plugin” (the pigeon one) for years but recently i switched to Amazon SES and found they sell that feature.
mixed support · medium severity · relevance 0.66
Email send rate

Email send rate: users show bugs pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: marketing teams, agencies, and lead-generation site owners · Wedge: monitor SMTP submissions, notification delivery, spam, and CRM handoffs
Proof Blocked card complete lead capture reliability Evidence linked to opportunity
Email send rate I just signed up to Amazon SES and have been given a low send rate of 14 emails per second.

Competitor Context

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Amazon Web Services praise owner · intel 80.1 · weakness 71.5
praise owner
stale update history below-average rating support bugs 2 source links Investigate Pain Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: affiliate marketers, ecommerce operators, and partner-program managers · Wedge: verify amazon tracking, commission handoffs, payout evidence, and partner disputes
source 1 source 2
Amazon Product in a Post Plugin praise owner · intel 76.7 · weakness 67.4
praise owner
stale update history 19 collected complaint signal(s) bugs support 2 source links Investigate Pain Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: affiliate marketers, ecommerce operators, and partner-program managers · Wedge: verify amazon tracking, commission handoffs, payout evidence, and partner disputes
source 1 source 2
Advanced Ads – Ad Manager & AdSense weak incumbent · intel 76.3 · weakness 61.3
weak incumbent
3 unresolved support thread(s) 12 collected complaint signal(s) bugs compatibility 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: affiliate marketers, ecommerce operators, and partner-program managers · Wedge: verify affiliate tracking, commission handoffs, payout evidence, and partner disputes
source 1 source 2
Amazon Pay for WooCommerce weak incumbent · intel 76.3 · weakness 65.4
weak incumbent
below-average rating 17 collected complaint signal(s) bugs support 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: store owners and WooCommerce agencies · Wedge: monitor checkout failures, handoffs, and revenue-impacting exceptions
source 1 source 2
Add & Replace Affiliate Links for Amazon praise owner · intel 76.3 · weakness 70.5
praise owner
stale update history below-average rating bugs migration 2 source links Investigate Pain Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: affiliate marketers, ecommerce operators, and partner-program managers · Wedge: verify amazon tracking, commission handoffs, payout evidence, and partner disputes
source 1 source 2
Mailster AmazonSES Integration praise owner · intel 75.4 · weakness 66.9
praise owner
1 unresolved support thread(s) stale update history bugs missing feature 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: marketing teams, agencies, and lead-generation site owners · Wedge: monitor newsletter submissions, notification delivery, spam, and CRM handoffs
source 1 source 2

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Collected Signals

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mixed Awesome plugin just works as expected! (5 stars) review · 2026-03-10T02:39:44+00:00 · medium severity · amazon

The reviewer says YaySMTP makes Amazon SES simple but requests storing secret keys in wp-config.php instead of the database.

Evidence: like to see an option to store the Secret Keys in the wp-config.php file rather than the database.
missing feature security easy reliable affiliate attribution and partner operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: marketing teams, agencies, and lead-generation site owners · Wedge: monitor SMTP submissions, notification delivery, spam, and CRM handoffs
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mixed Can I add keys to CONFIG not DATABASE support · 2026-03-09T10:36:12+00:00 · medium severity · amazon

The user wants AWS secret keys stored in wp-config instead of the database for security and says they modified the plugin themselves after support declined it.

Evidence: keeping Secret Keys in the database is less secure than keeping the Keys in the wp-config.php file
missing feature security easy quality affiliate attribution and partner operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: marketing teams, agencies, and lead-generation site owners · Wedge: monitor SMTP submissions, notification delivery, spam, and CRM handoffs
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praise 2 minutes to setup Amazon SES SMTP with this plugin (5 stars) review · 2025-09-14T08:02:41+00:00 · low severity · amazon

The reviewer praised the plugin for making Amazon SES SMTP setup work in two minutes after another SMTP plugin was costly and difficult.

Evidence: This plugin took me 2 minutes
easy performance value Amazon SES SMTP setup affiliate attribution and partner operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: marketing teams, agencies, and lead-generation site owners · Wedge: monitor SMTP submissions, notification delivery, spam, and CRM handoffs
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complaint Look no further: the BEST Amazon SES SMTP plugin you’ll ever need (5 stars) review · 2025-03-13T19:04:38+00:00 · medium severity · amazon

Look no further: the BEST Amazon SES SMTP plugin you’ll ever need: users show missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Look no further: the BEST Amazon SES SMTP plugin you’ll ever need I’ve used “WP Mail SMTP Plugin” (the pigeon one) for years but recently i switched to Amazon SES and found they sell that feature.
missing feature value quality affiliate attribution and partner operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: marketing teams, agencies, and lead-generation site owners · Wedge: monitor SMTP submissions, notification delivery, spam, and CRM handoffs
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neutral amazon ses click tracking support · 2024-10-02T12:50:27+00:00 · low severity · amazon

amazon ses click tracking: neutral conversation with limited structured signal.

Evidence: amazon ses click tracking anyone know how to turn this off? anyone know how to turn this off? Hi @extremist87 , Thanks for coming here. Can you please give us a full screensot to show where you are seeing this from? Regards, Alina Hi @extremist87 , Thanks for coming here. Can you please give us a full screensot to show where you are seeing this from? Regards
affiliate attribution and partner operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: marketing teams, agencies, and lead-generation site owners · Wedge: monitor SMTP submissions, notification delivery, spam, and CRM handoffs
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neutral bcc for all emails support · 2024-08-09T00:00:57+00:00 · low severity · amazon

bcc for all emails: users show missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: bcc for all emails hi, how can we add bcc for all emails passing through this plugin?
missing feature email affiliate attribution and partner operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: marketing teams, agencies, and lead-generation site owners · Wedge: monitor SMTP submissions, notification delivery, spam, and CRM handoffs
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mixed Disable email delivery support · 2024-03-07T09:58:49+00:00 · medium severity · amazon

Disable email delivery: users show missing feature, support, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Disable email delivery I see in your documentation that there are some additional settings including disable email delivery .
missing feature support setup reliable affiliate attribution and partner operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: marketing teams, agencies, and lead-generation site owners · Wedge: monitor SMTP submissions, notification delivery, spam, and CRM handoffs
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mixed Deprecated support · 2024-02-25T02:54:47+00:00 · low severity · amazon

Deprecated: users show compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Implement __serialize() and __unserialize() instead (or in addition, if support for old PHP versions is necessary) in /wp-content/plugins/smtp-amazon-ses/vendor_amazon/Aws/Credentials/Credentials.php on line 9 Deprecated: http_build_query(): Passing null to parameter #2 ($numeric_prefix) of type string is deprecated in /wp-content/plugins/smtp-amazon-ses/ven
compatibility support api affiliate attribution and partner operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: marketing teams, agencies, and lead-generation site owners · Wedge: monitor SMTP submissions, notification delivery, spam, and CRM handoffs
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mixed Deprecated: Return type of YaySMTPAmazonSES support · 2023-12-20T21:40:37+00:00 · medium severity · amazon

Deprecated: Return type of YaySMTPAmazonSES: users show compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Deprecated: Return type of YaySMTPAmazonSES Hi there, Seeing this in WordFence: [DEC 20 16:26:36] Deprecated : Return type of YaySMTPAmazonSES\Aws3\Aws\HandlerList::count() should either be compatible with Countable::count(): int, or the #[\ReturnTypeWillChange] attribute should be used to temporarily suppress the notice in /home/ngin Hi there, Seeing this i
compatibility reliable value quality affiliate attribution and partner operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: marketing teams, agencies, and lead-generation site owners · Wedge: monitor SMTP submissions, notification delivery, spam, and CRM handoffs
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mixed API Version? support · 2023-08-14T22:30:39+00:00 · medium severity · amazon

API Version?: users show support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Please refer to this doc https://docs.aws.amazon.com/pdfs/ses/latest/APIReference/ses-api.pdf If you have any further questions, feel free to contact us.
support value quality affiliate attribution and partner operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: marketing teams, agencies, and lead-generation site owners · Wedge: monitor SMTP submissions, notification delivery, spam, and CRM handoffs
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mixed Force From checkbox issue support · 2023-04-19T15:31:23+00:00 · medium severity · amazon

Force From checkbox issue: users show bugs, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Force From checkbox issue Hi, I seem to be having an issue with the force from email.
bugs missing feature value email affiliate attribution and partner operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: marketing teams, agencies, and lead-generation site owners · Wedge: monitor SMTP submissions, notification delivery, spam, and CRM handoffs
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praise Simple and easy (5 stars) review · 2023-04-16T18:22:45+00:00 · medium severity · amazon

Simple and easy: users praise easy, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Evidence: Simple and easy Straightforward and easy to use plugin for sending transactional emails via Amazon SES.
easy email affiliate attribution and partner operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: marketing teams, agencies, and lead-generation site owners · Wedge: monitor SMTP submissions, notification delivery, spam, and CRM handoffs
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praise Simple. Works. (5 stars) review · 2023-03-31T22:33:47+00:00 · medium severity · amazon

Simple. Works.: users show missing feature, pricing, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Simple.
missing feature pricing setup easy affiliate attribution and partner operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: marketing teams, agencies, and lead-generation site owners · Wedge: monitor SMTP submissions, notification delivery, spam, and CRM handoffs
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complaint 500 error on activated (1 star) review · 2023-03-06T11:15:59+00:00 · medium severity · amazon

500 error on activated: users show bugs, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: 500 error on activated 500 error on activated this plugin.
bugs support easy affiliate attribution and partner operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: marketing teams, agencies, and lead-generation site owners · Wedge: monitor SMTP submissions, notification delivery, spam, and CRM handoffs
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praise Great plugin (5 stars) review · 2023-02-06T06:53:26+00:00 · medium severity · amazon

Great plugin: users show bugs, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Great plugin This plugin works great to connect your site to Amazon SES for sending emails.
bugs support easy reliable affiliate attribution and partner operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: marketing teams, agencies, and lead-generation site owners · Wedge: monitor SMTP submissions, notification delivery, spam, and CRM handoffs
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mixed Disable emails function support · 2023-02-04T11:27:07+00:00 · low severity · amazon

Disable emails function: users show bugs, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Disable emails function Can we have a quick way to disable sending of emails, but they still go in the log so we can view them – useful for debugging without involving an email server.
bugs missing feature easy email affiliate attribution and partner operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: marketing teams, agencies, and lead-generation site owners · Wedge: monitor SMTP submissions, notification delivery, spam, and CRM handoffs
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mixed Sort in header not working support · 2023-02-03T22:57:09+00:00 · medium severity · amazon

Sort in header not working: users show bugs, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Sort in header not working When I try and sort the Email list by clicking the column headers the direction arrow changes but the sort order doesn’t change.
bugs support value quality affiliate attribution and partner operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: marketing teams, agencies, and lead-generation site owners · Wedge: monitor SMTP submissions, notification delivery, spam, and CRM handoffs
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mixed Email send rate support · 2023-02-03T11:55:11+00:00 · medium severity · amazon

Email send rate: users show bugs pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Email send rate I just signed up to Amazon SES and have been given a low send rate of 14 emails per second.
bugs quality email affiliate attribution and partner operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: marketing teams, agencies, and lead-generation site owners · Wedge: monitor SMTP submissions, notification delivery, spam, and CRM handoffs
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mixed Plugin doesn’t add replyto, and cc, nor bcc address support · 2023-01-14T03:44:15+00:00 · medium severity · amazon

Plugin doesn’t add replyto, and cc, nor bcc address: users show bugs, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Plugin doesn’t add replyto, and cc, nor bcc address I was doing some tests and noticed that the plugin dosen’t send cc, bcc or replyto tags even though they are being sent.
bugs missing feature support easy affiliate attribution and partner operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: marketing teams, agencies, and lead-generation site owners · Wedge: monitor SMTP submissions, notification delivery, spam, and CRM handoffs
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mixed WordPress caught an error with one of your plugins, SMTP for AmazonSES – YaySMTP support · 2022-08-01T12:04:23+00:00 · high severity · amazon

WordPress caught an error with one of your plugins, SMTP for AmazonSES – YaySMTP: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: WordPress caught an error with one of your plugins, SMTP for AmazonSES – YaySMTP I keep seeing a critical error when my site tries to send an email using this plugin.
bugs compatibility missing feature support affiliate attribution and partner operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: marketing teams, agencies, and lead-generation site owners · Wedge: monitor SMTP submissions, notification delivery, spam, and CRM handoffs
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