How can I use Amazon SES with Ghost? - amazon-web-services

Question

I saw at https://ghost.org/docs/config/#mail that SES is allowed.
But I edited my config.production.json and ran ghost restart, but Ghost still says:
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The config I used was:
"mail": {
"from": "My Name <example#example.com>",
"transport": "SMTP",
"options": {
"host": "email-smtp.us-east-1.amazonaws.com",
"port": 465,
"service": "SES",
"auth": {
"user": "asdfadsffdsf",
"pass": "asdfasdfadfs"
}
}
},
I got the SMTP-ACCESS-KEY-ID and SES-SMTP-SECRET-ACCESS-KEY from https://us-east-1.console.aws.amazon.com/ses/home?region=us-east-1#/smtp
What did I do wrong?

Answer 1

I also had this issue.
I fixed it by using the below config for Ghost.
"mail": {
"transport": "SMTP",
"options": {
"host": "email-smtp.us-east-1.amazonaws.com",
"port": 2465,
"secure": true,
"service": "SES",
"from": "'Name' email",
"auth": {
"user": "access-key",
"pass": "secret-access-key"
}
}
}
Notice some changes from your config:
"port": 2465,
added "secure": true,
use the IAM secret access key as it is. (Don't convert to SMTP password.)