An ebextensions solution for configuring an Elastic Beanstalk deployment to be able to use the integrated mail client, sendmail, with Amazon's email service, Amazon SES

The default linux image used by Amazon EC2 instances, Amazon Linux AMI, includes the email client, sendmail, that can be used to send emails.

This repository provides an ebextensions solution to configure sendmail to use Amazon SES.

This solution only provides a way to automate the configuration described in Amazon's official documentation.

Please check the Prerequisites and read the documentation thoroughly before using this.

Add the following environmental variables to your EB environment:

• MAIL_HOST - The SMTP server to use EX email-smtp.us-east-1.amazonaws.com (refer to smtp connection strings at the bottom of the page)
• MAIL_USERNAME - Amazon SES username
• MAIL_PASSWORD - Amazon SES password
• MAIL_DOMAIN - Verified domain to send mail from. Must be qualified with Amazon SES

Copy the .ebextensions folder to the top level of your application directory

Sendmail usage is normal but you must specify the sender address as a verified SES email address using the -f option like so:

sudo /usr/sbin/sendmail -f [email protected] [email protected]

Make a PR for some extra functionality and I will happily accept it :)

This repository is licensed under the MIT license.