Remove “via” from emails sent to Gmail from Amazon SES

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When sending emails from Amazon SES, gmail shows "sent via amazonses.com". How do I remove this?

According to Google,

I'm a sender and I don't want my recipients to see the "via" link. What can I do?

Gmail checks whether emails are correctly authenticated. If your messages are sent by a bulk mailing vendor or by third-party affiliates, please publish an SPF record2 that includes the IPs of the vendor or affiliates which send your messages and sign your messages with a DKIM3 signature that is associated with your domain.

I have added both SPF and DKIM records. When looking at the original email, it shows both passed.

Received-SPF: pass
Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=pass …; dkim=pass …

Any ideas?

Best Answer

Once DKIM was setup (for help, see this guide) and verified successfully on my domain I still had to enable it in the AWS console at SES -> Domains -> DKIM

dkim enabled

Once that was done mails to Gmail no longer show up with the via bounces address.

dkim sending result

You can see it still shows as mailed by: amazonses.com when you view details of the sender but that's OK since it's true.

Importantly, it shows as signed by our domain.

Hope that it's as simple as enabling DKIM for you.