How do I track down what went wrong when an email to AWS-SES goes missing?

I ran every step in Getting Started Receiving Email with Amazon SES and all went smoothly. I left the receipt rule open so that any email address is accepted. But when I send an email to joe@example.com (for my own example.com), no files are created in the S3 bucket. The file AMAZON_SES_SETUP_NOTIFICATION is there all right, but nothing else.

How do I go about debugging this issue? Where does one track down what went wrong?

Solution

I assume you have a rule for "domain.com" as a recipient which will match for all emails for this domain email addresses. Couple of things you can check:

MX record for your domain should point to SES inbound endpoint (changing MX may break your incoming emails if you're using it somewhere else already)
Is the rule-set where you have created the rule active ? There can only be one rule-set active.
S3 permission, S3 bucket requires a bucket policy to allow put object from SES.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/DeveloperGuide/receiving-email-permissions.html

To debug , check if you have received any bounce back.