I want to set up AWS SES service for receiving and processing technical emails from different subscriptions.
I read documentation Setting Up Amazon SES Email Receiving and followed all steps.
For receiving a body I tried both ways:
Storing an email to S3 storage.
Sending an email via SNS service.
But in both cases, I get the message that my service's configuration isn't completed.
The message looks like:
Please note that the rule that you configured to deliver emails to this S3 bucket is only valid if the entire setup process is successful. For more information about
setting up email-receiving rules, see the Amazon SES Developer Guide at http://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/DeveloperGuide/Welcome.html .
If I got correct I have to transfer my domain to Route 53 service.
But it isn't the best option for me. Because I have the special price for registering/prolongation from my provider. Moreover, I registered my domain a few days ago and need to wait one month before I will be able to transfer it (according to my provider rules).
In the current moment, I can get subject, sender, receiver, date and so on information from a mail, except the body.
Do I really have to wait one month and transfer my domain to Route 53? Or I missed something?
EDIT: I read comments to this post and repeat all steps from the first document. I don't know what I did wrong yesterday but I am receiving mail as expected now.
It sounds like the verification process might not have fully completed at the time. Once the MX, TXT and CNAME records have been added to your DNS settings and had enough time to propagate, everything should work as expected. If it takes too long, ensure there are no typos in the record names/values.
For others with this problem, ensure the domain shows as fully verified in the SES Home > Domains section. I just went through this, so hope it helps.
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With regard to this question in which I was using a barebones method to find the mail provider of a particular user, since I was using Amazon SES to send mails, but, am also quite new to it, I was wondering if Amazon SES provides a way to do so? Does Amazon SES give a way(api/service etc) to find the mail provider of the user that I'm sending email to?
Your question is a little vague in exactly what outcome you are trying to achieve with this data.
I am unsure if you are familiar with how mail delivery works on the Internet. My apologies if this is not news to you. At a basic level, email is simply ferried from machine to machine (SMTP server to SMTP server) until it find 'the' server that eventually your mailbox resides on. (This is a relatively gross oversimplification in modern times, but still true).
The first step is you get the message to a SMTP server with instructions to deliver the message, typically with a destination email address. Now, if you are using AWS SES APIs, there is the additional step that before it gets to the initial SMTP server, you first exercise the SES API which in turn ferries that message to Amazon's SMTP servers.
Now, the first SMTP server needs to know where to send it to. This is typically done by executing a DNS query on the destination domain and looking up the MX record. (More information on MX Records here). The MX record will contain an entry (or list of entries) which tell other SMTP servers how to contact that SMTP server for the domain. This is likely where your question is getting at - somehow identifying which 'provider' is in use. In current times, it is very common a large managed service provider like office 365 or similar runs that service for a domain. This is usually programmed into the client's MX record, which is the 'giveaway' that they are using O365 or whatever. However, plenty of domains run their 'own' servers and there is no technical reason preventing such. (Small lie: Since the beginning of time SPAM has been there and the 'reputation' of sending SMTP servers has been quite important in deterring SPAM, or at least was at some point in time. This is one of the reasons that AWS is so picky on you not sending unsolicited emails - it would count against the reputation of their SES SMTP servers sending it and they need it to be 'good' so they don't wind up on block lists at the Amazon level)
Here is the next complication and likely why even if an initial lookup was performed, the data cannot be guaranteed to give you what you want. Since the SMTP service is inherently hop-to-hop, there is nothing stopping the MX record at the DNS domain from merely being a proxy to another set of SMTP servers. Remember, that SMTP is one of the oldest protocols there is on the Internet and its simplicity is what made it functional before all of the infrastructure we have in place today. A SMTP server takes commands from users (or other SMTP servers) and then does its part to pass the message on closer to the actual user.
I am unsure if your end functionality would somehow modify the message sent based on the destination, or if perhaps it wouldn't send at all. Both are not supported by the AWS SES APIs (link). (BTW, it would have to be at the AWS SES APIs that did this, since this functionality simply isn't in the vocabulary of SMTP). You can look at the AWS SES API reference for what it can do, and what it can offer, but if modifying the message before delivery based on provider is what you want there is no current function in that.
Links:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MX_record
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/APIReference/Welcome.html
No, SES does not provide such functionality.
So my plan is to receive an email which will be saved to an s3 bucket and also trigger a lambda function which will send a mobile push notification. Firstly is it possible, I've worked on this for a while and I'm pretty sure it is, although errors keep popping up. My current problem is that my emails are not saving into my S3 bucket, when they are saved this message from AWS comes up - message saved in S3 Bucket
Any help is very appreciated, and maybe some other opinions on my plan would also be fantastic.
Yes, it is possible :) The message in your screenshot just lets you know that you have successfully setup the S3 receipt rule action.
On a high level you have to take the following steps:
Verify your domain to receive emails. This means adding certain DNS records that point to AWS SES. It's easy to do this if your domain is registered with Route53 because the UI in SES offers you to do that with a button click. Explained here for Route53 For other domain providers you have to take a few more manual steps: Add a TXT record pointing to SES to prove you own the domain and Add an MX record pointing to SES for receiving mails
Create a receipt rule set in AWS SES. This allows you to configure what should happen when you receive an email for certain email address(es). Explained here The detailed config what should happen is defined in receipt rules.
For this rule set, setup a receipt rule to store the email file in S3. Also explained here
For this rule set, setup another receipt rule to trigger a Lambda function that sends you a notification or does whatever you want to do with the email. Lambda Action options explained here (Alternatively, you can setup an SNS Action and trigger an SNS topic to which you subscribe using your phone number - however, the SNS message will be a JSON string that includes all metadata as well, so it's not easy to read -> I'd preprocess it first using a Lambda function and that's what you probably want to do)
Did you follow these steps? Is there any error happening?
All these steps require quite a bit of manual work. Also, it's tough to setup more complex scenarios in case this is necessary and requires you to manually adjust the settings like changing a receipt rule. Depending on what you want to achieve, I can recommend you to look into some further links that help you creating these environments for you in a (semi-)automated way:
A library to forward emails to any other email address but still requires a lot of manual work, e.g. to verify a domain or setup the receipt rules.
CloudFormation custom resources to automate the SES domain verification (Afaik this is also available as a Serverless Application in the Serverless Application Repository)
I recently ran into your scenario in a similar way and have created an AWS CDK construct to make it easier to forward emails to other mail addresses: Serverless email receiving with SES using AWS CDK You could add some further automation (e.g. notification to Slack) in your target email address account like Gmail if you are keen to make your hands a bit dirty.
A slightly different approach is taken here with a Serverless email setup using S3 and SES. Maybe you get some inspiration out of it for your own situation or can use it in some other way. It's using CloudFormation to setup almost everything.
If you have more questions, just let me know.
We want to setup a delivery report from one of our platforms.So if I set the time there to generate and email report every night I want that file to be sent to a S3 bucket on AWS.
What I have done so far ?
I have use the SES service. I was not able to verify the domains. I am not sure if we can bypass this option or will our IT admin allow it.
I did verify the email address. I set up a bucket with policies mentioned here .
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/DeveloperGuide/receiving-email-permissions.html
I was able to sent test mail via mail address send a test mail. When I checked the bucket I had a message which said
Hello,
You received this message because you attempted to set up Amazon SES to deliver emails to this S3 bucket.
Please note that the rule that you configured to deliver emails to this S3 bucket is only valid if the entire setup process is successful. For more information about
setting up email-receiving rules, see the Amazon SES Developer Guide at http://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/DeveloperGuide/Welcome.html .
Thank you for using Amazon SES!
The Amazon SES Team
Do I have a workaround ? Thank you
You mention that you weren't able to verify your domain. This is first step in making SES-to-S3 scheme work, according to docs: https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/ses-receive-inbound-emails/
So you need to fix this problem and go through next step in the process.
Brand new to AWS & Simple Email Service (SES) and have an app that needs to generate some email using SES. All I'm trying to do is set things up so that my app's service user (called, say, myapp-dev) has Access & Secret Keys that have permission to use SES APIs for generating emails. Furthermore I need these SES-generated emails to be sent from either no-reply#myapp.example.com which is not a valid email address, as well as hello#myapp.example.com which is a valid email address. This is because some SES emails will be alerts/notifications that end users should not respond to, and other emails will be emails that they may very well want/need to reply to.
I've already created a myapp-dev user that has AmazonSESFullAccess permissions.
Not knowing any better, I then went to the SES dashboard and clicked Manage Identities and started creating a new "SES Identity". I'm not sure if I need to do this or not (given my needs) or whether my myapp-dev user is ready to use the SES APIs as-is. Adding this new SES identity, it asked me to enter my domain and gave me the option to generate DKIM configurations for that domain. I read up quickly on DKIM and it sounds like its a way to authenticate that emails did in fact come from my domain, so it sounds like its something I'd like leverage. So I generated DKIM configs and now SES says that my new identity has a status of "pending verification".
Main concern is bolded above: with AmazonSESFullAccess permission, is my myapp-dev user ready to rock n' roll? Or will SES APIs fail/refuse to send emails until my SES identity (for my domain) is "verified"?
What do I actually need to do to change the SES identity from "pending" to "verified"? I did see a note that I needed to modify TXT and CNAME DNS records to configure DKIM with my domain, is that it? Or do I need to do something else?
Thank in advance for any and all clarification!
Found an alternate answer in this thread:
https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=125362
Here's what might have happened: Some domain name providers will automatically add example.com on to the end of the name/host field. So if you enter _xx.example.com, they'll "silently" change it to _xx.example.com.example.com
This is currently the case with namecheap, as I've painfully learned.....
It turned out this was my issue. Make sure to double check!
You need to wait for dns verification, can take a while.
You also need to take the Sandbox into account and open a ticket to move out from it.
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/DeveloperGuide/request-production-access.html
To help protect our customers from fraud and abuse and to help you
establish your trustworthiness to ISPs and email recipients, we do not
immediately grant unlimited Amazon SES usage to new users. New users
are initially placed in the Amazon SES sandbox. In the sandbox, you
have full access to all Amazon SES email-sending methods and features
so that you can test and evaluate the service; however, the following
restrictions are in effect:
You can only send mail to the Amazon SES mailbox simulator and to
verified email addresses and domains.
You can only send mail from verified email addresses and domains.
You can send a maximum of 200 messages per 24-hour period.
Amazon SES can accept a maximum of one message from your account per
second.
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.