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I added the following to \/etc\/postfix\/main.cf<\/p>\n

elayhost = email-smtp.us-east-1.amazonaws.com:587
\nsmtp_sasl_auth_enable = yes
\nsmtp_sasl_password_maps = hash:\/etc\/postfix\/password
\nsmtp_sasl_security_options =
\nsmtpd_sasl_path = smtpd
\nsmtp_sasl_type = cyrus
\nsmtp_tls_security_level = may<\/p>\n

Next you need to create the password file (\/etc\/postfix\/password) to enable authentication, the format is:<\/p>\n

email-smtp.us-east-1.amazonaws.com:587 SMTP_USERNAME:SMTP_PASSWORD<\/p>\n

The SMTP_USERNAME and PASSWORD can be obtained by creating them in The AWS console under SES\/SMTP.<\/p>\n

then create a hash out of it with:<\/p>\n

postmap hash \/etc\/postfix\/password < \/etc\/postfix\/password<\/p>\n

restart postfix and your mail should now relay through SES<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A client recently decided to use Amazon’s Simple Email Service to send email from their website. All the articles I found to set that up involved configuring an stunnel connection to port 465 of the amazon relay host. That seems totally unnecessary to me. So here is what I did: I added the following to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[10,9,12,14,13,11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.justaguy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.justaguy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.justaguy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.justaguy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.justaguy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.justaguy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15,"href":"http:\/\/blog.justaguy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions\/15"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.justaguy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.justaguy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.justaguy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}