ok, it’s a corporate blog so i’ll try it on monday and report back.
one other side issue i’ve encountered. On my first attempt i was doing stuff locally before putting it in production. First, i used the UI to set the SES keys and test everything out, then after success i switched to the defines. When i did that the ses section of the the config UI told me these values were set by the administrator. it did not display them or let me edit them.
On my second attempt in production (different WPMU instance) i just updated the wp-config with the defines right off the bat. Generally this worked, but now the SES API keys section shows the keys in the config UI for every blog. The user can edit them and save them, although the UI doesn’t show the updated values, instead using the defined values from wp-config.
Any ideas? Is there a missing entry in the DB? the emails function fine, i just wanted it to act like it was in the first set up, with a message indicating that the setting was defined in the UI.