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.
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We are currently using AWS WorkMail for the email addresses of our team members, and we are using AWS SES to send automated emails from an EC2 instance.
Due to different reasons we want to move the email addresses of our team members to a different email service (not hosted on AWS). However, we want to continue to send emails from noreply#... using AWS SES.
What would be the best approach for this? I was thinking of the following:
Setting the MX DNS-Entry to our new email server
Setting the TXT DNS-Entry from v=spf1 include:amazonses.com ~all to v=spf1 include:amazonses.com include:ournewserver.com ~all
Sending emails using SMTP on the new server
Would that be a good approach? Is there anything else I have to do or anything else I have to keep in mind when doing those changes?
Thanks a lot in advance!
From my perspective this looks fine, I would recommend that you do it in a staged approach:
Lower TTL records on all records
Add the SPF record first as it should be non-breaking
Update MX records/SMTP.
Lowering the TTLs will make for a quicker rollback. Try to seperate all steps with a gap longer than the TTL so that you can be more determined over how to rollback the particular step.
I want to ask some question related to AWS SES. Please help me with my queries.
As described in the above image that we need to pay $0 for the first 62000 emails if sending email
from ec2 hosted application. How does AWS SES know that i will send email from my ec2 instance hosted
application or from somewhere else or we need to code?
How can i get the list of emails that successfully send, which emails get bounces, complaints,
rejected? Mean i want a log of my sending emails. I do not want to login in AWS and watch dashboard multiple time.
It can detect sends from Amazon EC2 based on IP address range.
For detailed logs of email sends, see: Monitoring Your Amazon SES Sending Activity - Amazon Simple Email Service
There are options for Event messages and Notifications.
You can track the mail events with event publishing. Here is a post explaining how to: https://mailintel.io/resources/tracking-deliveries-opens-and-clicks-for-amazon-ses. If you don't want to build anything yourself, you can use mailintel.io. Gives you a detailed reporting dashboard.
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/
I want to host my app on an VPS/VPC and am currently leaning towards the AWS EC2 server. I'm looking at the console right now and I see a bunch of services offered like CloudSearch(managed search service) and SES(email sending service).
Considering the fact that I have already written code to do these things (at least for the search) that works locally, do I/should I still utilize these services? If so, why and how?
You do not need to use these services. But there are limits on sending emails from EC2 instances. (http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/faqs/#general , search for Are there any limitations in sending email from EC2 instances?).
If you intent to send huge amount of emails then you want to use SES.
For creating webhosting in EC2 instance you can use Easyengine, refer the below link for it:
http://docs.rtcamp.com/easyengine/install/aws.html
If you intend to send emails from your website you can either use Amazon SES or also any other mailing service.
For sending e-mail using Amazon SES follow the below steps:
Step 1) Verify the email address from which you need to send emails.
Step 2) Use the credentials which you get from step1 in your web application to send email to your user.
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.