# django-ses/django-ses

A Django email backend for Amazon's Simple Email Service

Repository: https://github.com/django-ses/django-ses
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/django-ses
Homepage: http://hmarr.com/2011/jan/26/using-amazons-simple-email-service-ses-with-django/
Language: Python
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2026-05-19T21:34:05+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 82/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 83, release rhythm 71, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5699, "days_push": 106, "days_rel": 194, "gap_med": 0, "n_releases_24m": 10}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1087, forks 240 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:32.226463+00:00)

## What it is
django-ses is a drop-in Django email backend that sends mail through Amazon's Simple Email Service (SES) instead of SMTP, and can also receive emails via SES Email receiving. It adds features like deliverability reports, bounce/complaint webhook events, and Easy DKIM signing without code changes.

## Use cases
- send django emails through amazon ses
- replace django smtp backend with ses
- receive emails programmatically in django
- handle ses bounce and complaint webhooks
- dkim sign outgoing django email
- send high volume email without running mail servers

## When to choose
- you use Django and want SES integration with deliverability reports and event webhooks
- you deploy on EC2 and want free inbound traffic to SES
- you need to receive and react to inbound emails programmatically

## When to avoid
- you only need basic SES sending via SMTP credentials - Django's default SMTP backend suffices
- you don't use Django or aren't on AWS
- you need an actively developed project - maintainers seek contributors

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: active
- function: email, webhook
- domain: email, web-development, backend
- platform: python, cloud
- tags: django, amazon-ses, email-backend, aws, dkim, bounce-handling

## Member repositories
- django-ses/django-ses (main) score 82

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:32.226463+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T06:49:26.724893+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/django-ses/django-ses (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:32.226463+00:00, sha fd0577e42ab6)
  - homepage: http://hmarr.com/2011/jan/26/using-amazons-simple-email-service-ses-with-django/ (fetched 2026-08-29T12:52:14.716464+00:00, sha a3a249425732)
  - registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/django-ses/json (fetched 2026-08-29T12:52:14.718907+00:00, sha 55dbb9b848ac)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.