Amazon SES Mail Manager

Amazon SES Mail Manager is an email processing service for inbound email. It receives email via SMTP ingress points, applies traffic policies and rule sets, then routes messages to archives, relays, S3, SNS, WorkMail, or drops them.

Key Capabilities

• Ingress Points — SMTP endpoints (OPEN, AUTH, or MTLS) that receive email. Point your MX records here. Configurable TLS policy: REQUIRED, OPTIONAL, or FIPS.
• Traffic Policies — Connection-level filtering by sender IP, recipient, or TLS version. Evaluated before message body is received.
• Rule Sets — Message-level processing with conditions (SPF/DKIM verdicts, headers, size, IP) and actions (archive, bounce, relay, S3, SNS, Lambda, drop).
• SMTP Relays — Forward email to external SMTP servers with optional authentication.
• Archives — Durable email storage with async search and export. Configurable retention from 3 months to permanent.
• Address Lists — Managed allow/block lists used in rule conditions. Supports bulk CSV/JSON import.
• Add-ons — Third-party integrations (spam filtering, threat analysis) attachable to rule sets.

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