I'm relatively new to AWS, but I am trying to figure out how to get AWS to receive emails. According this post How to configure email accounts like support#xyz.com or feedback#xyz.com on AWS SES only handles outbound email.
What I am hoping to achieve is the ability to filter aliases. For example, if the alias is "xyz12alias", then any email sent to "xyz12alias#mydomain.co", can see the email and process the content appropriately. Which in my case will be storing it in account associated with the filter.
Can anybody direct me to a strategy or service within AWS that would allow me to implement inbound email on Amazon AWS?
https://postmarkapp.com/inbound appears to give me what I want, but is there anything within the AWS framework itself? Are there alternate services to postmarkapp?
Thanks.
Amazon Simple Email Service just introduced incoming e-mail support:
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2015/09/amazon-ses-now-supports-inbound-email/
In addition to offering a scalable, cost-effective email-sending
platform, Amazon SES can now accept your incoming emails. You can
configure Amazon SES to deliver your messages to an Amazon S3 bucket,
call your custom code via an AWS Lambda function, or publish
notifications to Amazon SNS. You can also configure Amazon SES to drop
or bounce messages you do not want to receive. If you choose to store
your messages in Amazon S3, Amazon SES can encrypt your mail using AWS
Key Management Service (KMS) before writing it to the bucket.
You configure all of these actions by defining receipt rules, which
you set up by using the Amazon SES console or the Amazon SES API.
Receipt rules enable a single message to trigger multiple actions.
Your rules can be as broad or as specific as you choose because you
can configure them to apply to specific email addresses or entire
domains.
You can also use receipt rules to control which messages Amazon SES
can accept on your behalf. Another filtering method is to set up
custom IP address block lists and allow lists. If you know that you
don’t want to receive mail originating from a particular IP address
range, simply add it to your account's IP address block list. You can
also override block lists by adding IP address ranges to your allow
list, which provides fine-grained control over your inbound email
traffic.
You'd have to set up your own server; that's the way to handle it using AWS. They don't provide anything other than their bulk email delivery service. A few links below:
http://jeffreifman.com/how-to-install-your-own-private-e-mail-server-in-the-amazon-cloud-aws/
http://cerebellumstrategies.com/2012/04/15/amazon-linux-postfix-dovecot/
Update: there is now a solution available in AWS, as referenced in the comments below.
Still doesn't appear to be possible on SES. I'd recommend looking at Mandrill and Sendgrid though.
http://mandrill.com/features/
https://sendgrid.com/docs/API_Reference/Webhooks/parse.html
Here is how to use Amazon and any virtual server to deliver email from SES to a local IMAP account.
This plan is about stable operations: every step is under our control.
Have SES receive emails
And deliver to an S3 bucket and send notification to a SNS topic
Subscribe to that notification with HTTPS protocol
Use aws/aws-php-sns-message-validator and write a small PHP script to reveive notifications from SNS through HTTPS
SNS only sends messaged ID-s, put those in a file
Install incron on your server to start a shell script that downloads those messages from the S3 bucket by s3cmd and delivers to the local IMAP account by sendmail
Use any IMAP server, I use Courier IMAP
Read your messages with e.g. Rainloop webmail
Use SES also for sending outgoing emails
When using AWS SES inbound mail support, main challenge is that, it fits well for programmatic tasks, but hardly human readable since it receives in raw message delivered format.
You you can setup a S3 bucket, SNS Topic (Which could again links to Email, SMS & etc.), Lambda to forward the inbound mail with the same format it receives to take any programmatic actions based on the content of the email.
If you want read the message in human readable format, you need to write your own code to do the formatting. For example using Serverless lambda SES forwarder includes, NodeJS code runs in Lambda to convert raw email to human readable format and forward to recipient email.
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My knowledge of AWS is very basic and I am studying to enable a user to send and receive email using SES.
The user is created in IAM and with SES permission enabled.
The domain is already registered and working on AWS.
Do I need to create a email inside SMTP configuration or is there a option to create email on IAM user profile?
I recommend you to read the Doc first Because they clearly explained how it works. There are 2 main methods to send an email using SES.
1. SES Rest APIs
It's a REST API service for SES. You can send emails by calling API as an HTTP Request. Visit the below link for more info.
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/DeveloperGuide/send-email-api.html
2. SMTP
It's a traditional way. But if you want to access the SMTP server, You need to create SMTP credentials first. These credentials are unique to regions. If you are sending emails from multiple regions, You need to create a set of credentials for each.
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/DeveloperGuide/smtp-credentials.html
Receiving Emails
SES allows you to receive emails too. But this feature only available in certain regions. You can access received emails via the following ways without SMTP,
Deliver incoming emails to the S3 bucket
Publish to SNS topic
Send to Amazon WorkMail
For more info: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/DeveloperGuide/receiving-email.html
I have domain on Godaddy. I will migrate dns for this domain from godaddy to AWS. However, AWS seems to be not the best service to use email (send and receive message like in gmail).
I'm going to use 2 emails: support#example.com and contact#example.com. one of them I will use to send notifications from app on AWS. Second one, I want to use like typical email for daily personal duties.
What solution you can recommend me?
Set me record on AWS route 53 after migration to some another service?
You could use AWS Simple Email Service (SES) to send notifications programmatically from applications using AWS SDK.
Receiving email with SES is also supported, and you can use it to trigger other AWS services, such as Lambda or SNS. In addition, SES can forward received messages to Amazon WorkMail which is an email client you were looking for.
In case if you dont want to pay to Amazon WorkMail since it will cost little more , you can use aws s3 to receive your daily mails.
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/ses/receiving-email-with-amazon-ses/
SES runs on an exchange server. How can I access my mail using the web? I have searched AWS docs with no results.
SES is a "hosted" service provided by AWS. It doesn't run on Exchange Server. It's also not a "mail server" like GMail and can't be used for viewing your e-mail messages. Although you can use Amazon SES mailbox simulator to "capture" test emails sent with SES: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/DeveloperGuide/mailbox-simulator.html
You can't. From SES page:
Receiving Email
You can use Amazon SES to receive messages and deliver them to an
Amazon S3 bucket, call your custom code via an AWS Lambda function, or
publish notifications to Amazon SNS.
SES is not intended as a full featured email client for humans, but as a cost effective way for your application to use/integrate emails.
We have auditing requirements that may require us to go back and keep a copy of the email sent out. We're using Amazon SES to send out emails.
Is there any way to retain logs about the email and its contents or should I simply cc the email to some other email account to be used for auditing and trouble shooting later?
You can make use of AWS CloudTrail which keeps track of all APIs including SES. When you enable CloudTrail for SES, all your activity is stored in a S3 bucket which you can retrieve anytime you want.
Take a look at: Logging Amazon SES API Calls By Using AWS CloudTrail
There isn't really a native feature within SES for keeping a copy of sent emails. But there is a feature for storing a copy on S3 for received emails. So if you take your idea of cc'ing or bcc'ing an email box you control then you could follow this instructions. Its a bit of hack but its low effort.
I am confused with sending emails on Ec2.
i want to know why would we need SES if we can send emails using sendmail like we normally use in VPS servers.
Whats the benefit of that. Am i missing something
There isn't much difference if you are sending only few emails. But if you are sending many emails daily like user notifications, promotion etc then amazon doesn't like then being send from EC2.
Bulk emailing might get ec2 ip ranges blacklisted I guess, so when you send bulk emails from EC2, AWS will issue a notice. I have seen that when I had some configuration issue with my script and send a few hundred email in a very short period.
Amazon provides a way to remove these limitation on EC2 by submitting a request through the link given below
https://portal.aws.amazon.com/gp/aws/html-forms-controller/contactus/ec2-email-limit-rdns-request
You might have to setup elasticips for the EC2 instances, DKIM signing mechanism, SPF record, antispam, TLS etc.
Sending email using AWS SES apis are very easy (atleast from my point of view) compared to the above config and if you are a EC2 user then SES is available free of charge.