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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.

Peter
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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.

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    The question states the emails were already sent. SNS/SQS or setting the email will only work for future emails. – Peter Aug 04 '12 at 01:53
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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)

Peter
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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.

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