Update 2013\/06\/27: I’ve updated some of the code to match new SES interfaces.<\/i><\/p>\n
\nFor those who have sent emails in PHP<\/a>, the following code should look quite familiar:\n<\/p>\n \nUnfortunately, this will silently fail on Amazon Web Services<\/a>. But you do need to send those emails, right? Well, it’s pretty easy to get emails sent from AWS with Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES)<\/a>. However, in my research on this, I found several false leads and no good tutorials, so here goes: step by step, how to send emails with AWS.<\/p>\n First step: sign up<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n \nNext, install the source code code for AWS SDK for PHP<\/a>. Run the following in the directory where you store external libraries (using \nNow that you have the the AWS SDK on your server, include The following is a basic function to emulate PHP’s \nNote that you need to define the AWS_KEY and AWS_SECRET_KEY for your application. You can find these by going to your AWS Security Credentials page<\/a> and looking under “Access Keys”.\n<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n \nNext, define \nInstead, you can actually use \nMuch easier than the Perl script shenanigans. This will send an email to your sending email address with a link to verify that you own that email address. Do the same for your recipient addresses (since you’re in sandbox mode, which has restrictions<\/a> including the requirement to validate your recipient address). Verify each address and you should be good to go to send emails.\n<\/p>\n \nAt this point you’ll be able to send a couple test emails, but the volume is fairly limited. Request production access<\/a> and you should be granted the ability to send many more emails and not need to verify recipient email addresses.\n<\/p>\n \nVisit the AWS SDK for PHP reference page<\/a> for much more information on how AWS SDK for PHP works.\n<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n \nIf you do want to install the Amazon SES Perl scripts<\/a> and are getting an error along the lines of “Can’t locate XML\/LibXML.pm in @INC…”, you can use \nThanks to this post<\/a> for that hint.\n<\/p>\nmail($to, $subject, $message);<\/pre>\n
AWS SDK for PHP<\/h2>\n
sudo<\/code> when needed):\n<\/p>\n\r\nyum install git\r\ngit clone git:\/\/github.com\/amazonwebservices\/aws-sdk-for-php.git AWSSDKforPHP\r\n<\/pre>\n
AWSSDKforPHP\/sdk.class.php<\/code> into your application. You now have access to the AmazonSES<\/code> class.\n<\/p>\nmail()<\/code>.<\/p>\n\r\nfunction amazonSesEmail($to, $subject, $message)\r\n{\r\n $amazonSes = new AmazonSES(array(\r\n 'key' => AWS_KEY,\r\n 'secret' => AWS_SECRET_KEY\r\n ));\r\n\r\n $response = $amazonSes->send_email(AWS_SES_FROM_EMAIL,\r\n array('ToAddresses' => array($to)),\r\n array(\r\n 'Subject.Data' => $subject,\r\n 'Body.Text.Data' => $message,\r\n )\r\n );\r\n if (!$response->isOK())\r\n {\r\n \/\/ handle error\r\n }\r\n}\r\n<\/pre>\nValidating the sending email address<\/h2>\n
AWS_SES_FROM_EMAIL<\/code> to be the email address from which you want to send emails, e.g. no-reply@example.com<\/code>. If you try to send an email at this point, you’ll get a MessageRejected<\/code> error with the message “Email address is not verified.” Several pages I visited recommended I download the Amazon SES Scripts<\/a> (Perl), but don’t do it! You’ll need to subject yourself to a world of pain in the form of installing Perl modules*<\/a> (and probably Perl too, given that you’re reading a post on PHP!).\n<\/p>\nAmazonSES<\/code> to verify email addresses in PHP.\n<\/p>\n\r\n$amazonSes = new AmazonSES(array(\r\n 'key' => AWS_KEY,\r\n 'secret' => AWS_SECRET_KEY\r\n));\r\n$amazonSes->verify_email_address($fromEmailAddress);\r\n<\/pre>\n
Setting up production access<\/h2>\n
\nReference<\/h2>\n
Amazon SES Scripts (Perl)<\/h2>\n
yum<\/code> to install all of the necessary packages to get them to run.\n<\/p>\n\r\nyum -y install perl-Digest-SHA perl-URI perl-libwww-perl perl-MIME-tools perl-Crypt-SSLeay perl-XML-LibXML\r\n<\/pre>\n