Charters and Plans

Project Charter

Project Plan

Misc Updates

Email functionality ceased functioning on SELV after Gmail incorrectly identified the domain as a spammer.  To correct this, Amazon's Simple Email Service was introduced.  Amazon SES is managed from VillageReach's normal AWS account with minimal costs.  While SES has many bulk email and API features, we are simply using the SMTP sending feature.

Each deployment should create their own associated SMTP user.  This is easily done via the Amazon SES administration - simply go to the AWS page, login with the VR account and find the SES section.  A few tips:

1. Do NOT delete any SMTP users unless you are absolutely sure they are no longer in use
2. When creating an SES user, collect all information including the name/password into VR's approved password manager.  According to SES, the password is revealed only upon creation, so don't lose it!
3. We are currently authorized for 50,000 emails/day.