A FileMaker Product by Informing Designs.
PennyWire

FileMaker + Amazon SES

PennyWire

Native FileMaker email dispatch
Amazon SES - No middleware - No SMTP relay
Just scripts that send

Free demo file available
What it does

Your FileMaker scripts send real email.
We handle everything in between.

PennyWire is a FileMaker-native email dispatch tool built on Amazon SES. Call a script, pass your payload — PennyWire handles the SigV4 signing, the MIME assembly, the template injection, and the delivery confirmation. All from inside FileMaker. No external servers. No third-party SaaS relay. Your data never touches infrastructure you don't own.

FileMaker Native

Fires from your scripts via a single call. No middleware, no Node.js, no external server — pure FM dispatch using FileMaker 2024's native curl.

Amazon SES Backbone

Deliverability you can trust. Rich HTML templates with dynamic data injection, DKIM signing, and the SES message ID returned straight back into FileMaker.

Attachments & MIME

Send invoices, reports, images — MIME type handling built in. No wrangling required on your end.

Your AWS Account

You own the infrastructure. SES costs fractions of a cent per email. No per-seat licensing, no vendor lock-in on delivery.

Try it. Really — take the file.

The PennyWire demo is a turnkey email integration for FileMaker. Plug in your AWS SES credentials, verify a sender identity, and your scripts are dispatching real, deliverable email — and every message is logged so you always have a record of what went out.

Demo file included No login required FileMaker 2024+ Works on FM Cloud & Server

Hooking it up to your own Amazon account — setting up SES identities, IAM roles, DKIM records — that's where we come in. It's not something you'll want to figure out alone in an afternoon.

An honest word about the setup.

AWS is powerful. It is also a maze the first time through. IAM permissions, SES sandbox limits, DKIM verification, SigV4 request signing — each piece is well-documented, and none of it is obvious. We've already made every mistake so you don't have to. Our setup service gets you from zero to sending in a single session.