I’m assuming you installed the ‘common’ plugin, and also the Amazon SES plugin?
Once that is done, you would need to input the configuration data on the ‘settings’ web page of phpList… i.e. the location of your SES account, and the password.
Lastly, Ses requires that you validate your email address, for both the ‘from’ address, and the ‘envelope from’ address. Do that by sending emails to those addresses from SES, and then open and click on the link.
@chintakdholakia If phplist and the plugin indicate that emails are being sent, and no errors are reported, then they probably are being sent from phplist.
Look at your SES account. There should be a log of emails that have been sent through SES.
Got this working. I was using wrong SES Endpoint. I was using SMTP end point instead of API based. I was not getting the errors before but today I got the error message and from that, I was able to debug
Did you ever get this straightened out?
If you install Duncan’s “AWS SES” plugin, and activate it, you will have changed to the api.
There are settings that Amazon provides that need to be installed for the plugin to operate properly (Identity and secret), as well as the endpoint location (this is the datacenter that you are connecting to, where the identities are setup).
Lastly, you need to verify the email address you are sending from via the amazon email verification process. Amazon will send an email to the address you want to use, and you need to click on the link in the email to verify it. Do this for the ‘from’ address, as well as the administrator address (used by phpList to send reports), as well as the ‘envelope’ email address.
Once all of these steps are done, you should be good to go.
I did almost all this and I still cannot get it to work.
Is the set up done only via plugin set up, or also some other section on the settings page, or also some other section ?
It may be that my admin address is different and also domain that hosts the php list than the email domain ? I will not be able to justify that by the AWS, no ? I will describe this better later in a more schematic way as I need to get going. Thank You.
so no, I did everything as you listed and I get this error now, repeatedly : MailSender http code: 400, result: Sender InvalidAction Could not find operation SendRawEmail for version NO_VERSION_SPECIFIED dfa526b6-6b25-4757-a440-94614b0d460a , curl error:
@NBR I guess that you are using the wrong endpoint or region. The default endpoint is https://email.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/ and region us-east-1 which work for me.
Thank You for taking the time to reply. After learning just about everything there is to learn about PHPlist and AWS SES I finally caught my own mistake. It works on Frankfurt endpoint too now successfully. In the end point specification I had “sts” instead of “email”. I must have changed it thinking it was the way to go with that one when I didn’t have the SES fully set up or something, I don’t know. But all is good, I learned a lot in the process if nothing else
SES region
eu-central-1
SES endpoint
https://email.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com vs wrong: https://sts.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com
