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On-campus developers are used to having applications send email via appsmtp.mail.cornell.edu. Currently, there is no similar Cornell service in AWS for developers to use. This page shows how to setup the AWS Simple Email Service (SES) to send email from applications.

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Step 1. Validate Your Sender Address with SES

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Step 3. Configure SMTP Parameters in your Application

From AddressIn sandbox or limited mode, all of the emails sent via SES must use one of the sender (i.e. "from") addresses previously validated with SES (in step 1).
To Addressany desired
Hostemail-smtp.us-east-1.amazonaws.com (i.e., email-smtp.<AWS_REGION>.amazonaws.com)
Port587
Use TLS?yes
User nameThis is the access key produced by the iam-ses.yaml CloudFormation template. It will look something like "AKIAI42SV3U3D465DCGA"
PasswordThis is the secret access key produced by the iam-ses.yaml CloudFormation template.

Step 4. Sending Email from Additional Applications

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