Trying to get Amazon SES working, something is wrong

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I’m trying to get phpList working with Amazon SES. When I try to send a test mail the page stops loading after the headline. There is nothing in the Log of events. I do not know where else to look for clues. I do not know very much PHP (I do my programing in Perl). I have my own VPS with root. Sending worked previously when i used my own SMTP server.

Current config: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/fa19fd70940d21b501c1076b750ce1bd
Screenshot: https://www.dropbox.com/s/5yns87r7e3nzofo/phplist.JPG?dl=0

Also does phpList use the AWS SES API or SES SMTP?

Any help is appreciated.

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@dubidubno Your configuration is to send using the SES API. That needs the curl extension, so check whether your php includes that.

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Installing php5-curl on Debian did the trick. Why phpList did not give an error message when curl was missing, I do not understand. It is easy to test for with a construct like

echo 'Curl: ', function_exists('curl_version') ? 'Enabled' : 'Disabled';

Should I file a bug report?

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@dubidubno phplist already does that but you bypassed the check of curl being installed by defining USE_AMAZONSES. Without that phplist would have have used the other ways of sending.
The documentation probably needs updating to explain this more clearly.

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Why is the check for curl bypassed when USE_AMAZONSES is defined?

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@dubidubno phplist defines USE_AMAZONSES if all the criteria are met. You are not meant to define it yourself.
By all means raise a bug if you want to.

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Oh, I see. The page I read said to set it. That explains it.