I'm not sure if this is the place to ask this.
I recently bought a domain from Google and setup email forwarding so that emails sent to 'me#domain.com' get sent to the gmail of the account that owns the domain, then I stared an ec2 instance on AWS. I changed my nameservers in Google domains so that when I go to my domain, I get my ec2 instance and this works correctly.
However, now my email forwarding no longer works, so I tried setting up a MX in route 53 on AWS using
5 gmr-smtp-in.l.google.com.
10 alt1.gmr-smtp-in.l.google.com.
20 alt2.gmr-smtp-in.l.google.com.
30 alt3.gmr-smtp-in.l.google.com.
40 alt4.gmr-smtp-in.l.google.com.
with no name as I have read online. I am still not recieving emails like i used to and am unsure what to do. Thanks in advance
Have you considered using AWS SES and AWS Lambda to forward your emails?
First, you need to verify your domain - Amazon SES Domain Verification TXT Records
Second, create an S3 bucket with a unique and meaningful name. This will be used to store emails, for example ascisolutions.com-emails . Create a folder inside this bucket to store emails.
Third, create a Lambda function to forward the emails. See AWS Lambda SES Email Forwarder for files needed for AWS Lambda and instructions how to set it up as it requires to modify a config file.
Next, you need to create a rule set - Creating a Receipt Rule Set for Amazon SES Email Receiving
After that, you need to create a rule in the new rule set to let SES know what to do with the email that it received - Creating Receipt Rules for Amazon SES Email Receiving
Next, you want to update your MX records - Publishing an MX Record for Amazon SES Email Receiving
When you're done, wait a few minutes for DNS to update and then test to see if email forwarding is working.
Hope this was helpful.
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I have requirement where authorized people will send an email and then an EC2 server should start.
We have decided to use SES and Lambda for this.
I have learned that we can set up rule in SES which then can trigger a Lambda function where we will have boto3 code to start the EC2 instance.
I was going through Amazon SES Email-Receiving Concepts to do a Proof of Concept for this.
I have some questions:
To do POC in my AWS account do I need my own Domain name?
In real time when we set these rule where the authorized person will send email to which email-address address? And any particular format for it?
You would need a domain name (or sub-domain) with an MX record pointing to Amazon SES, or your existing email system could forward the email to the SES endpoint.
You could then configure SES to trigger a Lambda function for each incoming email. You could then code the Lambda function to turn on the EC2 instance. It could even look at who sent the email and make a decision about which EC2 instance to start. This would all be your own code, so the contents of the email is totally up to you!
For details, see: New – Receive and Process Incoming Email with Amazon SES | AWS News Blog
Let us know how it worked for you!
I've been trying to set up AWS Simple Email Service as a way to forward emails received to my custom domain on to my Gmail account, without any email hosting service required.
I have set up and verified my custom domain (mycustomdomain.com) as well as verified the email address they'll be forwarded to (myemail#gmail.com) as I'm still in Sandbox mode.
Under Email Receiving -> Rule Sets, I have an active / enabled rule set (forward-to-myemail-gmail) which is enabled, doesn't require TLS and has spam/virus scanning on.
There are no recipients specified, which I believe should allow this rule to be triggered for ALL recipients under my custom domain.
I have a single SNS action specified, which is to publish to the SNS topic (sns-forward-to-myemail-gmail) using base64 encoding
I have also set up my SNS topic as above and associated subscription, and have tested sending a notification to this topic manually using the console, so have confirmed it works.
However if I try sending an email to, for example, test#mycustomdomain.com, I get a bounce message back saying:
Address not found
Your message wasn't delivered to test#mycustomdomain.com because the address couldn't be found or is unable to receive email.
The response was:
550 Mailbox does not exist!
I've also confirmed that the MX records have been set up correctly using mxtoolbox.com, which says the domain records point to feedback-smtp.us-west-2.amazonses.com
Any suggestions for what I'm doing wrong? Many thanks!
Ok I figured it out... User error, as expected!
I had two MX records, one for the "mail" subdomain and another for "#" meaning the base domain. Both were set to the feedback endpoint, which was the problem. I think I was misunderstanding the two MX records.
The "mail from" configuration that used the SES feedback endpoint needed to be set for the sending subdomain (mail.mycustomdomain.com) while the SES inbound SMTP endpoint should have been used for the receiving domain (#, which means mycustomdomain.com).
Before when I was setting both to the same value I found either get a verified MAIL FROM or received email but not both. Obvious in hindsight! Hope this helps someone else.
For anyone else that had some trouble understanding ChrisC's answer, here is more detail on what I needed to do. I setup my domain using Route53, but other domain providers is similar.
TL;DR
Create a custom MAIL FROM domain
Add the following records to Route53 or your DNS provider:
Record name
Type
Value/Route traffic to
mail.customdomain.com
MX
10 feedback-smtp.[region].amazonaws.com
customdomain.com
TXT
"v=spf1 include:amazonses.com ~all"
customdomain.com
MX
10 inbound-smtp.[region].amazonaws.com
Outbound mail
Go to the Amazon SES AWS console. Under "Configuration," go to "Verified Identities." Under "Custom MAIL FROM domain," provide a custom subdomain (e.g., mail.customdomain.com). Select the option to add the DNS records (an MX record and a TXT record) to Route53 (or just add them manually). See this page in the AWS docs regarding custom MAIL FROM domains.
Inbound mail
Go to the Route53 AWS console. Under "Hosted zones," click on the domain you want to enable for receiving emails. Add an MX record for the base domain (e.g., customdomain.com) with the following value [priority] inbound-smtp.[region].amazonaws.com, where [region] can be us-east-1, us-west-2, or eu-west 1 (see this page for full details). Do NOT use email-smtp.[region].amazonaws.com for receiving inbound mail. I received a 530 Authentication required error in the bounce email when attempting to do so.
See this page in the AWS docs regarding publishing an MX record for receiving SES email.
Thanks for the answers above. For anyone else working through this, in my case the feedback value (for the mail.xxx.com had to be:
10 feedback-smtp.[region].amazonses.com
While the root domain value had to be:
10 inbound-smtp.[region].amazonaws.com
note that the feedback domain is AMAZONSES while the inbound domain is AMAZONAWS.
I have many email addresses, one for each user, on a subdomain like so: username#upload.mywebsite.com
I'd like to receive all of these emails into one Inbox for me to use, e.g. combineduploads#mywebsite.com
I'm using AWS Workmail and Route 53. I'm not sure where to start. Maybe this can be done with DNS records?
This can be done using AWS SES and AWS Lambda where you can setup a SES rule to trigger a Lambda function to forward the mails received to a predefined email address.
For more details refer Forwarding Emails to your Inbox Using Amazon SES. You can launch the CloudFormation stack to automate the majority of the configurations.
I am trying to set up AWS SES to receive emails and have it sent to my S3 bucket. I can presently send emails but cannot receive any emails. AWS documentation mentions Publishing an MX Record for Amazon SES Email Receiving (Publishing an MX Record for Amazon SES Email Receiving) but it doesn't actually tell you how to do this. Please can someone advise?
I have already created a receipt rule set and created the s3 bucket with the required permissions for emails to be sent there. I think my issue is with not knowing how to publish the MX record.
You need to login to your domain registrar panel to control records associated to it. To find the registrar information, try the ICANN's whois utility https://whois.icann.org/en.
Nearly all registrar's have a FAQ section explaining how to add a recordset to the zone. For eg.:
Gandi - https://wiki.gandi.net/en/dns/zone/mx-record
NameCheap - https://www.namecheap.com/support/knowledgebase/article.aspx/322/2237/how-can-i-set-up-mx-records-required-for-mail-service
GoDaddy - https://in.godaddy.com/help/manage-dns-zone-files-680
etc.
I try to use AWS SES for handle some app data on get email.
I've verified mydomain.com with AWS SES. I want handle dynamic email to addresses 1#mydomain.com 2#mydoamin.com, where 1,2 id from database.
I want handle it with AWS lambda, but I can not do it because I get:
550 5.1.1 Requested action not taken: mailbox unavailable
Is there any way to bypass the creation of mailboxes?
How can I change to email address via SES, for send all emails to one pre existed mailbox?
Make sure your MX records are correctly setup and propagated.
To check, navigate to your domain's Hosted zone in Route 53, and you should have the MX records like:
10 inbound-smtp.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
20 inbound-smtp.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com
30 inbound-smtp.us-west-2.amazonaws.com
See also: Amazon WorkMail account failing to receive email
First of all, you need to make sure you have your email domain verified under Identity Management - Domains in AWS Console.
After that, you have to verify your RuleSet is active. This means under Email Receiving - Rule Sets - View Active Rule Set you have to see your rule using the defined domain.
In your particular case:
Verify domain mydoamin.com
Check if the Active Rule Set really contains the SES rules for 1#mydoamin.com and .2#mydoamin.com
The error
550 5.1.1 Requested action not taken: mailbox unavailable
is not an AWS Lambda or AWS SES issue. It is an issue on the receiving end of the email. The problem is that there is no one on the receiving end of 1#mydomain.com to receive the email.
Lambda and SES cannot avoid the issue. To handle the issue, you must resolve it on the receiving end by:
creating an inbox, or
setting up aliases, or
wild-card the emails to a default inbox
The technical steps to accomplish this will depend on your receiving-end mail server.
I ran into this problem while setting up email forwarding from one address to another, and ultimately realised that when the SES rule set instructions asked for a 'recipient' email address, it was not the address I was forwarding emails to, but actually the initial email address that was receiving the email.
I was getting same error.
My problem was RuleSets.
SES>Email receiving>Rules Sets.
There should be rules here that allows your mail ID or any mail to your domain.
Encountered the same problem. While my domain was verified with SES I needed to create an SES identity. After creating the identity everything on https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/ses-receive-inbound-emails/ worked as expected.