Possible to get a report of email addresses that bounced from Amazon SES?

Question

While the SES dashboard shows aggregated statistics about the bounce rate of emails sent through the service, I do not see a way of retrieving the individual addresses that bounced. Is this possible? Our situation is that the 'from' address we had set in certain emails was incorrect and resolved to a non existant mailbox on our (verfied sender) domain, so anything SES would have forwarded to the from address is likely gone.

Answer 1

The answer is no, they are gone. Lesson: make sure you from address is valid (good practice obviously) and goes to a mailbox that resolves (and/or set up and process a SQS queue for them to go to)

Answer 2

Use the Amazon SNS (simple notification service), and then you can add your email address - or Amazon SQS service for holding a log of all bounces/complaints.

Answer 3

I had the same problem. The SES report didn't show enough details for the accruing bounce error. I modified the sesreport.zip, where the deliveries, from-emails/source-emails, and the subject column are added and are included in the report.

You can find my modification here: https://github.com/Morning-Train/AWS-SES-Report

I hope my answer helps you with your problem.