Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) | APIs and SDKs

Question 1

How can I use the Amazon SES SMTP interface?

APIs and SDKs

Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) | Customer Engagement

Answer 1

To use the Amazon SES SMTP interface, all you need are your SMTP username and password, the SMTP endpoint name, and the port number. Using this information, you can connect to the Amazon SES SMTP interface in the same manner as any other SMTP relay.

For example, you can integrate your existing packaged software so that it sends email through Amazon SES. You can add email sending capability to your applications, using a programming language that supports SMTP. You can integrate Amazon SES sending with popular mail transfer agents (MTAs) such as Sendmail, Postfix, and Exim. You can even connect to the SMTP interface from the command line, and send SMTP commands directly.

For more information about the SMTP interface, see Using the Amazon SES SMTP Interface to Send Email in the Amazon SES Developer Guide.

Question 2

How do I make requests to Amazon SES?

APIs and SDKs

Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) | Customer Engagement

Answer 2

Amazon SES accepts Query requests over HTTPS. These requests use verbs such as GET or POST, and a parameter named Action to indicate the action being performed. For security reasons, Amazon SES does not support HTTP requests; you must use HTTPS instead.

Question 3

What are the available API operations for sending email?

APIs and SDKs

Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) | Customer Engagement

Answer 3

In addition to SMTP sending support, Amazon SES provides the following APIs: SendEmail and SendRawEmail. These two APIs provide different levels of control over the composition of the actual email message. Both APIs provide the same level of email sending reliability and performance:

The SendEmail API requires the user to provide only a source address, destination address, message subject, and message body. Upon calling this API, Amazon SES will automatically construct and send a properly formatted multi-part MIME email message optimized for display by email client software.

The SendRawEmail API provides the advanced user with flexibility to format and send their own raw email message by specifying headers, MIME parts, and content types.