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

I had the same issue with port 25, but for me it worked with port 587.