API Mailer for AWS SES
Amazon SES API mailer for WordPress that bypasses SMTP and sends via the SES SendRawEmail API with a lightweight, high‑performance design.
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·0 active installs·Updated 1 month agoAs of April 2026, API Mailer for AWS SES is a WordPress api plugin with 0 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 1 reviews. It has been downloaded 272 times in total. Requires WordPress 5.6+ and PHP 7.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2025. Recently updated within the last 3 months. Top alternative: WP Consent API.
5/51 reviews
0active installs
272total downloads
1 yearsince 2025
Overview
API Mailer for AWS SES replaces wp_mail() with a direct Amazon SES API integration (SendRawEmail). There is no SMTP layer or PHPMailer handoff in the critical path, reducing overhead and improving reliability.
The plugin focuses on correctness, performance, and operational clarity:
– Direct AWS SigV4 signed requests to SES
– Minimal overhead in the wp_mail() hook
– Optional background queue with Action Scheduler or wp_cron fallback
– Optional logging via WooCommerce logger or PHP error_log
– Clean, PSR-4 structured codebase
Key Features
- Direct SES API (SendRawEmail) integration — no SMTP required.
- Background sending queue with Action Scheduler or wp_cron fallback.
- Tiny-args queueing with job IDs to keep cron payloads small and private.
- Configurable rate limi…
Ratings & Reviews
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 5.6+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 7.4+ required |
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Changelog
1.4
- New maintainer: beltoft.net.
- Security: encrypt secret key at rest (AES-256-CBC), validate attachment paths against uploads/wp-content only.
- Logging: replaced custom file logger with WooCommerce logger (falls back to error_log); removed Logs tab. The old
wp-content/ses-mailer-logs/directory is no longer used and can be safely deleted. - Queue: job persistence checks throughout, retry scheduling failure handling, delete-safe stale job cleanup.
- Hardening: autoloader path sanitization, cron dedup lock, proper XML error handling, rate-limit via transients.
…and 1 more changes
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