How to configure email sending with Amazon Simple Email Service

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Hi, I want to know if is possible to connect with Amazon SES in order to send the osqa emails?

why?

don't want to maintain mail servers.
already deployed on EC2 (In-bound traffic to SES is free from EC2 instances).
need to send a high volume of email.
don't want to have to worry about PTR records, Reverse DNS, email whitelist/blacklist services.
Django-SES is a truely drop-in replacement for the default mail backend.

I wonder if is simple like change the email backend

EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django_ses.SESBackend'

But I dont know how is osqa sending the emails, for that is my question :) thanks in advance.

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Currently OSQA uses only SMTP as a primary email send mechanism. If SES can be used as a valid SMTP server you can make OSQA connected directly to it. Other than that I suppose you can add some proxy SMTP server that directly communicates with Amazon SES and make OSQA connect to the proxy.

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answered 14 Oct '11, 09:17

Jordan ♦♦
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thanks, here is a how-to implement/connect Postfix with AmazonSES, the proxy @Jordan means: http://netwiser.blogspot.com/2011/02/setup-amazon-ses-to-relay-email-by.html

(14 Oct '11, 22:24) panchicore

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