Getting Your Amazon Web Services (AWS) Simple Email Service (SES) Credentials
*** UPDATE: This project was migrated from CodePlex to GitHub *** Obtaining Your Amazon SES SMTP Credentials can be more confusing than one would think. If you find yourself having difficulty authenticating to SES with the credentials that you got from the AWS Console, fret not, it's likely a simple fix. It is possible to create an IAM user both from the IAM and SES area of the Console. Depending on the path you take, your SES user's username and any manually generated password may not be used for SES authentication. Your SES Access Key is used as the username; however, the related Secret Key is not used as-is for this purpose. Required IAM Policy Be sure you have given your IAM user the necessary permissions to relay email through SES. Use the following "least-privilege" policy snippet: { "Version": "2012-10-17", "Statement": [ { "Effect": "Allow", "Action": "ses:SendRa...