I am trying to create an application in which I forward an email to AWS SES, have a lambda function parse that email, extract the required information, and store it in a database. I don't want to store in S3.
I registered for a Route53 domain and received a domain name (example.com). I want to forward emails from my gmail address to an alias in my domain (test#example.com). I created a rule-set in SES, and verified my domain (example.com).
I can't figure out how to create email accounts in my domain (example.com). I would like to create something like test#example.com, where I could forward emails from my personal gmail account. Anyone know how I would do this?
Go through the steps in the documentation here. By default all emails for any address in the domain will be sent to your Lambda function when you create the receipt rule. You will have to specify an address (test#domain.com) in the first step of creating a receipt rule to only send emails for that address to the Lambda function.
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I have bought a domain,then I have created domain identity in SES and verified it successfully, now comes the email part. I have created email address in identity management that is user#example.com (assume that example.com is my domain), documentation states that I need to go to the email inbox and click on the email but what inbox they mean? How can I access this inbox of this address that I've just created? If I have to use my own email here then what's the point of adding a domain If I can use gmail smtp straight away? Can someone please clarify this?
Here is the clear answer:
At first, you need to purchase and verify your domain in SES(you've done this already, it's good to go for next step)
You need to write a support ticket to move your SES account out from sandbox mode as it's in sandbox mode by default(You need to provide all info AWS requires in detail)
moving out from sandbox mode
This might take 1 day around, finally you can get production SES status and check in your statistics section from SES console.
Next, you need to go AWS WorkMail service console and create your email accounts to be used for sender or receiver in your platform by your purchased domain(i.e, if your domain is abc.com, info#abc.com or support#abc.com).
When I say creating email accounts, it says you need to create email address, username and password for each email account.
Finally, If you need to check out the inbox for above created accounts, WorkMail provides a cool web client for it.
Here is the WorkMail web client documentation from AWS
It says this:
The web client URL looks like this: https://alias.awsapps.com/mail. Replace alias with the alias you received from your site administrator.
Here, alias is configured by you when you create your organization in WorkMail console.
The reason why SES requires to verify domain is something like ID verification of email sender, and verification of 3rd party email addresses gives us a flexibility to work with any other email addresses not registered in SES, also allow development and test before registration of domain in sandbox mode.
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The email address you want to verify must have existing mail service, before you can validate the address in SES.
From AWS docs, about receiving email
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/DeveloperGuide/receiving-email.html
When you receive email, Amazon SES processes it according to instructions you provide. For example, Amazon SES can deliver incoming mail to an Amazon S3 bucket, publish it to an Amazon SNS topic, or send it to Amazon WorkMail.
If you need an inbox service, use Amazon WorkMail.
Creating a IAM user doesn't create an inbox. And SES has no inbox capability at all. The point of validation is to allow sending in behalf of the service. In certain use cases, you can process inbound email via Lambda, store attachments on S3 etc. but there is no POP3/IMAP inbox-like service included in the SES.
Creating an IAM user is not required to validate your email. That is only for authentication purposes for accessing AWS account services.
AWS SES can receive emails and mostly this is used for automated email processing.
If you have verified in identity that you own the domain(by adding txt record in your domain DNS table) then by default you have verified all emails that fall in that domain.
You don't have to follow the steps to verify individual emails by clicking the link received on the emails.
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/DeveloperGuide/verify-domains.html
From your example: since the domain examaple.com is verified, you don't have to again verify emails(user#example.com) that fall under same domain.
Individual email verification is for scenarios where you cant verify domain by placing dns records. Here you will not be able to receive emails, but if you still want to send emails from an address then you can verify it by clicking the link you receive on your inbox. This can be done with gmail or other mail providers.
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 registered a domain iqxxxx.io on Route53 which will be hosting web service. A hosted zone is generated automatically after the registration is complete. I created a record set which points to an Elastic Beanstalk environment.
In order to enable HTTPS, I tried to request a SSL certificate via AWS Certificate Manager for domain *.iqxxxx.io. I chose "email validation" which means an email will be sent to the domain owner with following emails:
administrator#iqxxxx.io
admin#iqxxxx.io
hostmaster#iqxxxx.io
webmaster#iqxxxx.io
postmaster#iqxxxx.io
When I registered the domain, my own email address is listed for all "Registrant contact", "Administrative contact", "Technical contact", although only "Registrant contact" is shown as verified.
How am I supposed to get all the verification email that was sent to these iqxxxx.io emails? Is that because Administrative contact and Technical contact have not been verified yet? What do I need to do to get these verified?
You can now configure ACM to validate the cert via DNS, which sounds like it would be a much easier solution.
But if you want to do it via email, you will need to create an MX record for your domain, and point it to the appropriate SES endpoint for incoming email.
Then set up a default rule set, and point it to an SNS topic. You can then set up your actual email, confirm your subscription, and then when you try to use email validation for the domain you should receive the 5 emails that get sent (admin#, hostmaster#, etc)
The email body will be in JSON, but you can pull out the confirmation link easily enough.
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You must have an email from one of these emails,
administrator#iqxxxx.io
admin#iqxxxx.io
hostmaster#iqxxxx.io
webmaster#iqxxxx.io
postmaster#iqxxxx.io
AWS will send most of admin#iqxxxx.ie.
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.
I'm using a marketing email application called Mautic to use AWS SES to send emails. I'm receiving the emails successfully but they're all from the domain amazonses.com. I followed the AWS SES documentation to verify ownership of my domain, I enabled SPF and DKIM successfully, and I put the proper MX records into my GoDaddy DNS. Everything is 'verified' in the AWS Console, but I'm not sure how to get it to use the "MAIL FROM" domain I've setup. Mautic has no settings with respect to the "MAIL FROM" domain so I'm pretty sure I'm just missing the last step on the SES in order to get it to actually use the 'from' domain I've setup.
Please let me know if I can provide any more details that might be helpful. Thanks for your time in advance!
I had the same issue, but it was because I had verified my email address before I set up the MAIL FROM domain. In this case, if you look at the details for the verified email address, you will see the MAIL FROM domain set to amazonses.com. It appears that SES uses this value when sending from this email regardless of the MAIL FROM domain setting.
Since my domain is verified, my solution was to simply delete the verified email. Now when I send emails, it uses the domain default which is my MAIL FROM domain setting.
If you are using verified email addresses, check that it shows the MAIL FROM domain that you want to use in the details.
Ah, I figured it out. In Step 8 of this document it says "You can now use Amazon SES to send email that is signed using a DKIM signature from any valid address in the verified domain." I didn't realize I had to have a verified email from this domain under the "Email Addresses" section of the SES console. I created an email address in my domain, verified it using SES, and now my application can use SES to send email on behalf of my own domain!
AWS also has a Custom Mail From domain setup option. Here is the doc:
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/DeveloperGuide/mail-from.html
Follow the directions very carefully and don't forget you need an SPF record for the new subdomain you create for the Mail From - otherwise SES won't pass it in the header.