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Last updated: 2026-03-31 16:39:31

Overview

Tencent Cloud Simple Email Service (SES) is a cloud-based platform-based service that provides enterprises with secure and stable, simple and fast, precise and efficient marketing, notification, and transactional email push services. With low SES cost, it enables quick reach to a broad market segment. Our service coverage spans 200+ countries/regions, instantly reaching email addresses located worldwide, with an avg email deliverability rate of 97%, among which over 90% are delivered within seconds. Currently, we have partnered with multiple customers, including Tencent's game and entertainment products, demonstrating excellent performance in service stability and email delivery rate.
This section introduces the Tencent Cloud SES API interfaces, which are all API 3.0 interfaces.
You can call the API to operate Tencent Cloud SES, such as create domain name, send email, and create email template.
For ALL supported API information of Tencent Cloud SES, please refer to the API overview.

Glossary

Common terminology for Tencent Cloud SES API interface, see the table below:

Term Description
Sending Domain Name The sender domain name is used to identify the email sender. It is the domain name of the website or mobile app that the sender possesses. You need to certify and authorize Tencent Cloud SES before sending from that domain name. For details, see Sender Domain Name.
Email Template The sender domain name is the email content template sent by the sender. For details, see Email Template.
Sending IP The sending IP is the actual IP address of the email sending server, used to underwrite reliable mail delivery, maintain sender reputation and avoid rejection by the recipient. It is divided into independent IP and shared IP. For details, see Related Issues of Independent IP.

Usage limits

For details on the sending restriction of SES, see sending restriction related issues. For API parameter limits, refer to the parameter descriptions in the API document.

Getting Started with APIs

You can use the API Explorer tool to call APIs online.
This document takes sending email as an example to introduce the steps for calling an API through the API Explorer tool.

  1. Go to the API Explorer tool page. For more information about API Explorer tool usage, see Using API Explorer.
  2. Call CreateEmailIdentity to register a sender domain name. Then use GetEmailIdentity to obtain the configuration detail. After the configuration is complete, verify the domain via UpdateEmailIdentity and just send email.
  3. Call the SendEmail API to send CAPTCHA-intl, notification, and marketing email.

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