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

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Para qualquer outra pessoa que esteja procurando: se você usar o Amazon SNS para rastrear e-mails do Amazon SES, pode adicionar um cabeçalho de e-mail personalizado para especificar o conjunto de configurações que aciona o tópico do SNS:

X-SES-CONFIGURATION-SET: ConfigSetName

ConfigSetName é o nome do conjunto de configurações.

Isso parece estar funcionando para mim. Estou planejando fazer com que o SNS envie todos os logs do SES de diferentes partes dos nossos sites para um único local.

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Para aqueles que estão se perguntando como definir o cabeçalho de e-mail personalizado, aqui está.

  1. Vá para seu Painel de Configurações >> E-mail ou use o link abaixo:
    https://forums.example.com/admin/site_settings/category/email, substituindo o nome do domínio pelo seu.

  2. Pesquise por cabeçalhos de e-mail personalizados e defina os seus. É isso!