Guides

Plain answers about receiving, reading and replying to email when you send with Amazon SES or Resend. HelloBox (hellobox.app) is a web inbox for Amazon SES and Resend: connect your provider in two clicks, then receive, read, reply to, search and share email on your own domains as a team, send campaigns, and let AI agents help over MCP. It's free for one person.

• Is there an inbox for Amazon SES?

  Amazon SES sends and receives email but has no inbox to read it in. Here's how to get a real inbox for SES, shared with your team, in two clicks with HelloBox.

• How to receive email with Amazon SES

  Set up Amazon SES email receiving: verify your domain, add the MX record, create a receipt rule that saves mail to S3. Or let HelloBox do all of it in two clicks.

• Is there an inbox for Resend?

  Resend can receive email, but hands it to your app through webhooks rather than giving you an inbox. HelloBox is a shared inbox for Resend you connect in one click.

• Where do replies to transactional emails go?

  Customers reply to receipts, password resets and onboarding emails. Here's how to stop losing those replies on Amazon SES or Resend, and answer them from a real inbox.

• A shared inbox for support@ and hello@ on Amazon SES or Resend

  Answer support@ and hello@ as a team on the domain you already send from with SES or Resend. Flat pricing, no per-seat billing, and no mail server to run.

• Can I use Gmail with Amazon SES?

  You can send from Gmail through SES SMTP and forward SES mail to Gmail with a Lambda function, but it's fragile. Here's how it works and a simpler alternative.

• An alternative to Amazon WorkMail for teams on SES

  Amazon WorkMail is a separate, per-user mail service. If you already send with SES, HelloBox gives your team an inbox on the same account at a flat price.

• Resend vs Amazon SES: which should you send with?

  Amazon SES is the cheapest at volume; Resend is the quickest to start. A plain comparison of both, and how to get an inbox and campaigns on either with HelloBox.

• How to give an AI agent access to your email with MCP

  Connect Claude, ChatGPT or any MCP client to your SES or Resend email through HelloBox's MCP server, with read, organize or send access you choose.