How To Send An Email Using Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) Part-(2 of 3)
In this article, we will explore step-by-step Send An Email Using Amazon SES SMTP Interface.
Goals
By the end of this tutorial:
- We will have a solid understanding of AWS SES.
- We will be able to send an email using Amazon SES SMTP Interface.
Prerequisites
To follow this tutorial, you will have to have the following:
- AWS account.
Using the Amazon SES SMTP Interface
To send production email through Amazon SES, you can use the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) interface or the Amazon SES API.
SMTP gives a lot of conventions that streamlines the correspondence of email messages between Email serves. SMTP is a part of the application layer of the TCP/IP protocol. The default TCP port used by SMTP is 25 and the SMTP confections secured by SSL, known as SMTPS, use the default to port 465.
Setup
If you follow the first part of this AWS SES series you can skip Verify Email Address with Amazon SES.
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- Sign in to the AWS Management Console
and open the Amazon SES console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/ses/
2. With your new AWS account, or you have not requested a sending limit, your account in the Amazon SES sandbox with limited feature. This means that you will not be able to send email to addresses that aren’t verified with AWS. So you will need to verify email addresses whatever email address you plan on using for this service. Go to the Amazon SES console and from the left side menu click on “Email Addresses”.
3. Enter the Email that you want to verify (make sure you own the Email) and select “Verify This Email Address”. Amazon will send you an email with a link to verify that email address with Amazon SES.
4. In Amazon SES console, under Identity Management, choose “Email Addresses” to view the email address that you verified.
5. Create SMTP credentials for sending an e-mail. Go to the Amazon SES console and from the left side menu click on “SMTP Setting”.
6. Click “Create My SMTP Credential”. The SMTP credentials you created here basically an Amazon IAM account. Once you click Create, the console will give you a new login and password for the username you provided. You can click Download Credentials to download a CSV file with your SMTP Username and SMTP Password.
7. We will use Go programming language to sending email using SMTP. You can find it on GitHub.
Boom check your email inbox. We successfully send email using Amazon SES SMTP interface.
Further reading
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/DeveloperGuide/Welcome.html
Conclusion
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You can find it on GitHub.
In the next tutorial, we will use AWS SDK to send email. See you there!
