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Amazon SES SMTP test — regional endpoints and credentials

Test Amazon SES SMTP using your region's email-smtp endpoint on port 587 with STARTTLS and IAM SMTP credentials.

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Connection settings

Host
email-smtp.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
Port
587
Security
STARTTLS

Amazon SES provides regional SMTP endpoints such as email-smtp.us-east-1.amazonaws.com. Create SMTP credentials in the SES console (distinct from AWS access keys) and use port 587 with STARTTLS.

Your From address or domain must be verified in SES (or the account must be out of sandbox) or sends will fail after SMTP acceptance in some cases.

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Try it on your own server

Run these settings against your SMTP server and watch the live, credential-redacted protocol transcript.

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