Could not connect to SMTP host: email-smtp.us-east-1.amazonaws.com, port: 465, response: -1

Question

I am trying to send email with Amazon\'s SES/SMTP and I am getting the following error:

javax.mail.MessagingException: Could not connect to SMTP host: em

Answer 1

Amazon SES SMTP requires the SSL before the SMTP session. The StartTLS command is not supported by SES.