How to use Amazon SES for sending emails to users?

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Using Amazon SES for Sending Emails in Discourse

To integrate Amazon SES with Discourse, configure the email settings in your app.yml file with the following:

  • DISCOURSE_SMTP_ADDRESS: email-smtp.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
  • DISCOURSE_SMTP_PORT: 587
  • DISCOURSE_SMTP_USER_NAME: Your Amazon SES credentials
  • DISCOURSE_SMTP_PASSWORD: Your Amazon SES password
  • DISCOURSE_SMTP_ENABLE_START_TLS: true

After updating the configuration, run ./launcher rebuild app to apply the changes.

Additionally, if you’re using Amazon SNS to track Amazon SES emails, you can add a custom email header to specify the configuration set that triggers the SNS topic. To do this, add the following header:

X-SES-CONFIGURATION-SET: ConfigSetName

Replace ConfigSetName with the name of your configuration set.

To set custom email headers in Discourse, follow these steps:

  1. Go to your Settings Panel >> Email or use the link https://forums.example.com/admin/site_settings/category/email (replace with your own domain).
  2. Search for email custom headers and set your own header.
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Hello All I want to query how to configure and integrate Amazon SES with discourse to use it for sending emails from an verified Amazon SES email.

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This is pretty easy to setup, in your app.yml:

  ## TODO: The mailserver this Discourse instance will use
  DISCOURSE_SMTP_ADDRESS: email-smtp.us-east-1.amazonaws.com 
  DISCOURSE_SMTP_PORT: 587                        
  DISCOURSE_SMTP_USER_NAME: CREDIENTIALS
  DISCOURSE_SMTP_PASSWORD: CREDIENTIALSPW
  DISCOURSE_SMTP_ENABLE_START_TLS: true

Worked straight out of the box for me.

Edit:
To apply these changes you will need to run: ./launcher rebuild app

4

Per chiunque stia cercando: se utilizzate Amazon SNS per tracciare le email di Amazon SES, potete aggiungere un intestazione email personalizzata per specificare il set di configurazione che attiva l’argomento SNS:

X-SES-CONFIGURATION-SET: ConfigSetName

ConfigSetName è il nome del set di configurazione.

Per me sembra funzionare. Ho intenzione di far inviare a SNS tutti i log di SES dalle diverse parti dei nostri siti in un unico posto.

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Per chi si chiede come impostare l’intestazione email personalizzata, ecco come fare.

  1. Vai al tuo Pannello Impostazioni > Email o usa il link sottostante
    https://forums.example.com/admin/site_settings/category/email, sostituendo il nome di dominio con il tuo.

  2. Cerca intestazioni email personalizzate e impostale a tuo piacimento. È tutto!