Using Amazon SES with Rails ActionMailer

Question

What would be the best way to go about making ActionMailer send mail via Amazon SES in Rails 3?

Edit:

This is now a gem:

gem install amazon-         


        

Answer 1

For TLS SSL setup [Recommended by Amazon SES]

Spoiler Alert: NO GEM Required

smtp is defualt way of sending email in rails but you can add this line to explicitly define in config/application.rb file

config.action_mailer.delivery_method = :smtp

In config/application.rb or you can specify in certain environment file

config.action_mailer.smtp_settings = {
    address: 'Amazon SES SMTP HOSTNAME',
    port: 465,   #TLS port
    domain: 'example.com',
    user_name: 'SMTP_USERNAME',
    password: 'SMTP_PASSWORD',
    authentication: 'plain',   #you can also use login
    ssl: true,   #For TLS SSL connection
}

The Amazon SES SMTP HOSTNAME is specific for every region, so you that name which you are in, following are hostnames wrt regions.

1. email-smtp.us-east-1.amazonaws.com (for region us-east-1)
2. email-smtp.us-west-2.amazonaws.com (for region us-west-2)
3. email-smtp.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com (for region eu-west-1)

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