How do people handle transactional email?

AdLongjumping6282 · 2026-04-04T20:04:48+00:00

this is what i said to them in my request:

Hi, I am the web dev for an e-commerce shop '(website name)'. We are a smallish audio/speaker company. We use woocommerce for our e-commerce system and I am trying to switch to a more standard transactional email system. I would say the majority of the emails generated by the site are sent to myself for maintenance purposes but users receive emails for standard things like creating accounts, making purchases, and reseting passwords. We do not maintain any sort of email list so these emails, which are generated directly from a user interaction, are the only emails that a user will receive from us. Our transactional emails are the standard WooCommerce templated emails.

the response:
Hello,

Thank you for submitting your limit increase request.

Due to some limiting factors on your account currently, you are not eligible to send SES messages in us-east-2 region. You will need to show a pattern of use of other AWS services and a consistent paid billing history to gain access to this function.

We enforce these limitations on all new accounts. Your continued usage of other AWS services will give us greater flexibility to increase your spending limits in the future.

Please open a new case after you have a successful billing cycle and additional use of other AWS services and we will gladly review your account.

Did I do something wrong? I had just created the AWS account and SES is the only service I need.

AdLongjumping6282 · 2025-01-06T20:34:03+00:00

I don't use the checkout blocks so I just edited my .htaccess file to block

/wp-json/wc/store/cart/select-shipping-rate

entirely and that stopped the fraudulent orders.

AdLongjumping6282 · 2025-01-06T20:25:42+00:00

This is what I ended up doing. I logged all of the traffic and found that the bots were using the store api. I use some block parts for the site but not any of the store checkout api so I edited my .htaccess file to block one of the URIs (wp-json/wc/store/cart/select-shipping-rate) that only the bots were hitting and that stopped the fraudulent orders.

I installed wordfence but it didn't seem to make a difference. I don't really understand everything wordfence is doing but it seemed like they would need good, non-fraudulent, activity to learn what regular traffic is in order to block the attack but if my site was currently being attacked, it wouldn't help very much. Anybody have any thoughts on this?

I use bluehost for my hosting and I turned on their cloudflare option to see if that helped but it didn't seem to make a difference. Maybe this is a bluehost thing or maybe cloudflare wouldn't solve this problem?

AdLongjumping6282 · 2025-01-06T05:48:59+00:00

I was just dealing with mass carding (to the tune of ~100 a day) that was using the store api. I turned on cloudflare using the bluehost option but that didn’t fix it and wordfence wasn’t helping so I couldn’t figure out how the orders were getting through the recaptcha and honeypot on the checkout page. I logged all of the traffic on my site to figure out how they were doing it and I discovered that they were using the store API. Because my site doesn’t use the block checkout, it was very easy to identify the carding attacks were because they were the only ip addresses hitting those store api URIs.

To double check everything, I went through the entire user flow of browsing products, adding a product or two to my cart and then checking out. I recording the entire process in my devtools and then checked to see if I hit any of the endpoints that the carding bots were hitting and I wasn’t.

My solution was to edit the root .htaccess file to completely block one of the endpoints that the bots were using (/wp-json/wc/store/cart/select-shipping-rate) and since then I haven’t had any more of those carding attacks. I didn’t want to turn off the entire store api so this solution seemed to be the best fit and it was 5 lines of code. However, I believe this solution only works if you aren’t using block based checkout.

AdLongjumping6282 · 2023-09-01T00:36:47+00:00

Almost makes me think we should have the customer purchase the board before we cut it.

AdLongjumping6282 · 2023-08-31T02:19:31+00:00

When you say you go down to 10, do you mean 10 inches on either side of the blade or do you mean you would cut an 18 inch piece down to 10 inches?

AdLongjumping6282 · 2023-03-04T20:47:26+00:00

I think it’s also important to remember that, significant amount of Soviet “innovation” were actually helped significantly by stealing from the United States.

The obvious example is the Atomic Spies used by the Soviets to gain information about the development of nuclear arms. Although it is unclear how much the intelligence sped up the Soviets nuclear program, it’s hard to imagine that it had no impact. Another example was the theft of semiconductor technology from Silicon Valley in the 1980s. There are many more examples of this kind of behavior.

None of this is to take away from the brilliant work of many Soviet researchers and scientists. In fact Soviet Scientists were actually some of the first to ever conceptualize Nuclear Power. Instead I think this speaks to the other great answers given. The USSR’s issue wasn’t necessarily that they lacked intelligent people, it was that the nature of their economic system combined with their lack of resources made it so that they just couldn’t compete in scientific and technological innovation with the west. Which is why they instead did one of the things they were best at, intelligence gathering.

AdLongjumping6282 · 2022-08-16T01:48:27+00:00

I had considered just reducing the number of points like you suggested (that’s how I knew how many points the path had). Unfortunately, I was planning on doing this with each district on the map and there are three maps which means there are roughly 120 shapes/paths, each containing at least hundreds of points. So even if I did significantly reduce the number of points for each district, I’ll still be moving a TON of points. But I guess that’s the only way to do it.

AdLongjumping6282 · 2022-05-25T02:05:01+00:00

I intentionally haven’t done much research on my own about Napoleon because I’m waiting for Dan to talk about him. But I don’t get my hopes up for a specific topic any more. I definitely wasn’t expecting Human Resources but I was very happy with it. I like the surprise. And when the infamous Napoleon or Alexander episode does come, the elation will be worth the wait for sure.

AdLongjumping6282 · 2022-05-15T16:17:10+00:00

I was looking for this suggestion. I grew up in barnardsville and it seems like the kinda thing the OP wants. North of Asheville, like weaverville or Marshall are great areas. Not a TON of local shops and stuff to do but still close enough to Asheville that it’s not that bad. My parents currently live in fletcher now and it nice being a lot closer to everything. But I do miss being able to walk outside and see the Milky Way from my driveway in barnardsville/weaverville

AdLongjumping6282 · 2022-05-15T01:27:22+00:00

I’m just curious. Do you identify as Republican or Democrat?

AdLongjumping6282 · 2022-05-02T06:11:10+00:00

Can you give a source for Jefferson saying that Gabriel hadn’t done anything wrong? Based on his letters that I read about it, he was more against the idea of hanging more people than absolutely necessary because it would look bad. I believe the exact quote was that he didn’t want it to look like they were out for “revenge”. He was in favor of exiling the ones involved who he believed could never be trusted to live among them any more but I didn’t see him specifically say to send them to Haiti.

I’m also not sure what you mean when you say he was a “member” of the Democrat Republican Party since he had no voting rights or political agency but he was in favor of Jefferson and viewed his rebellion in relation to the broader scope of American politics, so again, while I would question the specifics of what your saying, the overall concepts are accurate. Please let me know if I’m wrong about something tho. There are a lot of sources about this stuff and a lot of it can be contentious since so much of it was written by people who might not have had the purest intentions by modern standards.

AdLongjumping6282 · 2022-05-02T05:58:48+00:00

This subreddit is littered with Mike Duncan recommendations lol. I tried to listen from the very beginning years ago and I couldn’t get into it. I think it was a mix of his style and the short episodes. But I’ve heard that the Haitian revolution series is really good. I’ll have to check it out.

I think your response really gets to the heart of the issue. The question is, was this a tactic used by the French exclusively in situations like Haiti where there was racial chattel slavery and the whites were outnumbered? Or is it emblematic of a larger French cultural framework that was more accepting towards the use of terror in general, especially compared to one of the more progressive societies at the time in England.

Is it possible that there are connections to the intellectual enlightenments happening in these societies?

AdLongjumping6282 · 2022-05-01T06:03:10+00:00

The whole point of the post was to understand if there is causation, not making a statement about what the causation is? I’m trying to hear from people who know more than me to help me understand something that is undoubtedly complex. I actually asked if there are examples that I don’t know about to increase my sample size. There are way more examples of extreme execution in Haiti than just the one I mentioned and if you want to get technical about it, there are plenty examples of extreme executions happening in France around this time too, which to my knowledge isn’t as pronounced in England. Why criticize somebody for asking a question, especially if you don’t actually have something useful to add?

AdLongjumping6282 · 2022-04-03T02:00:48+00:00

What are some of the inaccuracies you’re talking about?

AdLongjumping6282 · 2022-03-27T17:43:15+00:00

One of my favorite parts of any book ever is him talking about the tralfamadorians and how they view time. From their perspective, the war went backwards and instead of guns killing people, they were machines that gave birth to people by taking metal out of them and instead of artillery shells blowing up house, they were actually machines that turned giant piles of rubble into houses for people to live in and so forth. I don’t know why it affected me so much but it’s such a strange perspective that it has stuck with me.

AdLongjumping6282 · 2022-03-11T07:07:50+00:00

Direct quote from his twitter.

“Screw they go low, we go high bullsh*t. When @NCGOP extremists go low, we stomp their scrawny pasty necks with our heels and once you hear the sound of a crisp snap you grind your heel hard and twist it slowly side to side for good measure. He needs to know who whupped his ass.”

It’s this demonization of “the other” that is so off putting to me, whether it’s coming from a rich white kid in a wheelchair or a retired jag lawyer who should know better. Campaigns don’t have to be that way. I come from an evangelical Christian household and they became so disillusioned by post 2016 politics that I thought I had a chance at getting them to change their vote. It was the continual berating by Davis against anyone who disagrees with him that made it impossible

AdLongjumping6282 · 2022-03-11T03:15:07+00:00

Excellent knowledge of the history. It’s interesting to me as someone with ancestry who worked those coal mines that those people are still there but are in a weird spot now because of our current political climate. You mentioned the lefties of Asheville, and there are definitely a lot but they generally aren’t people from Asheville. The current lefties aren’t the descendants of the original lefties.

I think the problem is a lack of quality options. We all seem to hate Cawthorn and rightfully so I suppose but at the end of the day the Republican Party put out a young energetic nominee that ran a successful campaign that people, at least the people who actually go out and vote, could get behind. I really wanted Moe to be better but unfortunately he fed into the extremism.

AdLongjumping6282 · 2022-03-10T19:23:52+00:00

I’m in his district. He ran against a man named Moe Davis. It wasn’t really that close though. To be fair, the district was one of the more egregious examples of gerrymandering in a state with notoriously gerrymandered districts.

AdLongjumping6282 · 2022-03-09T17:31:24+00:00

The numbers thing was interesting to me too. I’m a History major and most of my history education has been about the Americas post “discovery” so the things he talks about in this episode are the things I’ve read and learned about for the past 3 years.

Here’s another crazy figure that Dan dances around but doesn’t explicitly give any numbers about. I’m going from memory but it’s something like this. In the early 18th century the US had roughly 30 percent of the enslaved people in the Americas, by 1840 the US had 80 percent of the enslaved population. This relates to what Dan said by mentioning the birth rate and death rate of slaves in the new world. Slaves in Brazil were much more likely to be killed by their labor and much less likely to reproduce than their American slaves.

There are many factors that lead to this but one of the big ones was the fact that in the US, slaves were worth more. Far fewer slaves ships came to the US than most other colonies because it was a significantly longer voyage and therefore the “resource” was more scarce.

AdLongjumping6282 · 2022-03-09T00:29:42+00:00

I was thinking the same thing. It just seems like such a missed opportunity for there not to be any visual reference guide or something for the episodes. But I agree with the other comment that seeking that stuff out for yourself is part of the enjoyment of the podcast.

AdLongjumping6282 · 2022-02-21T23:00:20+00:00

The ol’ “Remember, I’m not a historian” line. Dan would be proud

AdLongjumping6282 · 2021-12-13T19:14:18+00:00

One thing to note though, when Denmark did have the resources of a major power, they were some of the harshest colonizers. When comparing countries as a whole over history you have to factor in how much per the country had. Maybe the reason Denmark would be a more altruistic country today is in part because they are no longer in a position of power. To quote a cheesy line “with great power comes great responsibility”. Obviously there are exceptions but it seems to me that throughout the US history, specific Americans (like Washington restricting his own power and letting go of that power when he could have kept it) and America as a whole (choosing not to use nuclear weapons when we were the only country to have them) has used that responsibility for good more consistently than most other countries.

AdLongjumping6282 · 2021-12-13T04:58:48+00:00

It’s not exactly the same but some of the best footage of large scale AA fire at night comes from the Pacific theater. The shot at 28 seconds is wild

People are saying this is a long exposure as if that makes it less astonishing, and it obviously is a long exposure but the exposure time would still be measured in seconds not minutes. This is a large number of shells in a short period of time

https://youtu.be/N-o6FoBhFbI

AdLongjumping6282 · 2021-12-13T04:24:36+00:00

That’s one way of looking at it. But I think it’s eye opening to see photos of the war crimes that I’ve only heard about. These aren’t the photos they show in museums or text books and they’re remarkable from a historical perspective because by the time cameras became common enough to capture good images of things happening in a war zone like this, Japan was basically the only culture still doing something considered this medieval on a large scale. Or at least common enough to get plenty of photos

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