Is it possible to prevent AWS SES from adding awstrack.me
link to all my email links?
Their documentation suggests that if I don't want a link tracked, I just have to add ses:no-track
as a custom attribute, however, while this may prevent tracking, it still modifies the link.
You now find it in your event destination where you specify what event types to receive, disable open and click tracking.
Not sure how to share a deep-link, probably not possible but the steps to get there are as follows:
- Go to the SES Dashboard (Simple Email Service)
- Make sure you're in the right region!
- In the left menu bar click on Configuration sets
- Click on the name of the desired configuration set
- At the top below the configuration set name click on *Event destinations
- Click on the name of the desired destination (in my case SNS)
- Next to Event types click on Edit
- Uncheck Opens & Clicks at the very bottom
- Save changes
- Make sure to use this Configuration set when sending mails
Just tested and it worked for me as expected
As mentioned by Jonathan Wareham here in the comments make sure you don't have "Virtual Deliverability Manager" with "Engagement tracking - opens and clicks" enabled as this would negate the former steps
Open and click is an optional and configurable field in SES. You have the Configuration set which you include in the email(as header etc) and SES understand if you want to insert open and click link. If you don't want, yon can just go to Configuration set and remove the checkbox for Open and Click.
ses:no-track
works, I was updating my HTML templates but not updating the JSON before uploading. –
Apiary For those of you not using any Amazon SES Configuration sets (and probably for those using as well).
1. Log in to your Amazon SES dashboard (and make sure you have chosen the correct region top-right): https://console.aws.amazon.com/ses
2. Click Virtual Deliverability Manager > Settings (left panel mid)
3. Click Edit (Additional settings module)
4. Choose "Turn off engagement tracking"
5. Click "Submit settings"
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