April 24, 2021
First, you’ll need to create your SMTP credentials for AWS Simple Email Service (SES):
Go through the steps to create new SMTP credentials, and copy them down somewhere.
The fully formed SMTP connection string looks like this:
smtp://username:password@email-smtp.us-east-1.amazonaws.com:587
There are three variables that you should replace in this string:
username
and password
, which are the SMTP credentials you copied down earlier.us-east-1
, which you should replace with the region that you’re sending emails from (this page has a list of the endpoints).