UK sending · eu-west-2
A transactional email API that sends from the UK.
Most transactional email providers are US companies sending from US infrastructure. YourMail dispatches every message through AWS SES in London, signs it with your domain's DKIM key, and gives you the retention and deletion controls a UK or EU customer will eventually ask you about.
And an explicit account of what we do not claim — because "UK-based" is used loosely enough in this market that the precise version is worth reading before you repeat it to your own reviewer.
What sending from the UK actually buys you
Three concrete things, none of which require you to take our word for it — the DNS records are yours to inspect and the message headers are yours to read.
Sent from London
Every message is dispatched through AWS SES in eu-west-2. Not a US region with a European label on it — the send itself happens in London.
DKIM-signed, DMARC-aligned
Your domain is verified with DKIM before it can send, and DMARC passes on DKIM alignment. That is what stops Gmail and Outlook filing your receipts as spam.
Signed webhooks
Delivery events reach your app over HMAC-SHA256-signed POSTs, so you can verify a payload came from us before you act on it.
GDPR data controls, built in rather than bolted on
Retention, portability and erasure are the three requests that turn up in every data-processing questionnaire. All three are settings in your dashboard, not a support conversation.
Set how long we keep message bodies
Choose a retention window: 30, 90 or 365 days, or indefinite. New accounts default to 90 days. A background job strips the HTML, text and attachments off anything older while keeping the delivery metadata, so your audit trail survives without the content sitting around.
Export your data, on demand
One click produces a JSON snapshot of your account: domains, suppressions, webhooks, usage, and message metadata. Enough to answer a portability request without emailing us first — and it tells you if anything was too large to include rather than quietly trimming it.
Delete the account yourself
Self-serve and immediate — it removes the sending identities, cancels the subscription, and hard-deletes every record belonging to your account. No support ticket, no waiting period.
What we don't claim
Plenty of providers imply full data residency when what they mean is that one server is in the right country. We would rather be precise, because you may have to repeat this to your own compliance reviewer.
Sending happens in London. That is a guarantee: the SES region is eu-west-2, and your mail is dispatched from there.
We do not currently offer a blanket data-at-rest residency guarantee. The application database that stores your message metadata is managed infrastructure, and we are not going to assert a physical location we do not control end to end. If your procurement process requires a contractual residency commitment, talk to us before you sign up rather than after — we would rather lose the deal than misrepresent it.
What you can do today is bound the exposure: set a retention window so bodies are stripped on a schedule, and delete the account outright whenever you like.
If you are the person filling in the assessment rather than the one writing the code, the GDPR and data residency page goes through Article 28, sub-processors, retention and data subject rights one at a time, and links every document you will be asked for.
How this compares
Each of these is written to be useful if you end up choosing the other one, and each has a section on what the other product does better. A comparison with nothing in that section is not a comparison.
- vs AWS SES — We are built on SES rather than against it. The honest framing for “should I just use SES directly”.
- vs Resend — The obvious reference point in this category. Where the difference is real, and where it is narrower than it looks.
- vs Postmark — The other transactional-only product. Closest to us in scope, furthest in track record.
- vs SendGrid — The incumbent most people are migrating away from, and the parts of it that are genuinely hard to replace.
Common questions
Is transactional email sent from the UK?
Yes. Every message is dispatched through AWS SES in eu-west-2, which is London — not a US region with a European label on it. The send itself happens in London.
Does YourMail guarantee UK data residency at rest?
No, and we say so plainly. Sending happens in London and that is a guarantee. We do not currently offer a blanket data-at-rest residency guarantee: the application database that stores your message metadata is managed infrastructure, and we are not going to assert a physical location we do not control end to end. If your procurement process requires a contractual residency commitment, talk to us before you sign up.
How long are email bodies kept?
You choose a retention window: 30, 90 or 365 days, or indefinite. New accounts default to 90 days. A background job strips the HTML, text and attachments off anything older while keeping the delivery metadata, so your audit trail survives without the content sitting around.
Can I export or delete my data myself?
Both are self-serve. One click produces a JSON snapshot of your account — domains, suppressions, webhooks, usage and message metadata — and it tells you if anything was too large to include rather than quietly trimming it. Account deletion is immediate: it removes the sending identities, cancels the subscription, and hard-deletes every record belonging to your account.
Send your first email in five minutes.
The free tier needs no card, and you can send from our shared test address before you have verified a domain of your own.