How do you send an email using WP Amazon Simple Email Service?

It can be upsetting to find that some recipients of your email did not receive it due to an email delivery failure since you put a lot of effort into crafting emails that engage your audience or clients.

Sending transactional emails, marketing messages, or any other kind of excellent content to your clients is possible using the Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES).

How does Amazon Simple Email Service work?

Amazon Simple Email Service is a cloud-based email service that sends bulk and transactional emails.

AWS for smooth interaction with your apps, email clients, and other software are just a few of the many integration options that Amazon SES offers.

Why choose Amazon SES?

Amazon Simple Email Service is an excellent choice for companies that wish to avoid the costs and inconveniences of creating a large-scale mail solution.

You can start sending emails over Amazon Amazon Simple Email Service from your WordPress website by entering your Amazon SES SMTP credentials into Easy WP Mail SMTP.

Read this guide to learn how to use Amazon Amazon Simple Email Service with the WP Mail SMTP plugin to set up SMTP on your WordPress website.

1. Configure Amazon AWS Account

First, you need to create an Amazon AWS account. Your credit card information is required for registration, but you must pay once you use paid services. Select a free plan to access all of Amazon’s services.

• Now, log into your AWS Management account and search for Simple Email Service. Then, select Amazon Simple Email Service. Sign Up to AWS.

• Make an Identity and Access Management user to generate access keys for Amazon SES.
• After creating an account or logging in to AWS, proceed to the Identity and Access Management dashboard.
• Under “Access Management,” select Users from the sidebar.

• Next, select Add Users from the upper right corner. Enter your login and choose Next.

• A panel allowing you to modify the IAM User’s permissions should appear now.
• To filter the policies, select Attach policies directly and enter “AmazonSESFullAccess” in the search field.

• To give the user full access, look for the “AmazonSESFullAccess” policy in the result list.
• Proceed as before, but search for “AmazonSESFullAccess” this time. Additionally, check this box.
• The user will then be able to access services linked to Amazon SES, the company’s notification system.

• After the user has both policies associated with them, click Next. Now, preview the user details.

• Now, a user has been created for your Amazon SES account. After the user account creation, you will see the screen below.

• After creating the user, you have to make the access key, click on the user name, and then head towards the security credentials tab. 

• Then, click on the “Create Access Key” button to build a new access key for your account.

• Afterward, choose the “Other” option in the access key list and click the Next, button.

• You can skip the “Description Tag value” and then hit the “Create Access Key” button.

• You will see a screen with your Access Key along with a Secret Access Key.

You have successfully, created the access key for your account. Now, you have to keep this key at a safe place and move further with the process.

2. Moving from the Sandbox to Production

Your experience with AWS probably started in the sandbox when you created your account.

Sandboxes shield accounts from misuse, accidental sending, and unforeseen fees.

If you expect to send emails to anyone, you must request to switch from Sandbox Mode to Production Mode.

• To switch your Amazon account mode, you must first request more service quota. To do this, navigate to “Service Quotas” under the Account ID.

• Now, select the “AWS Services” option under the service quotas menu.

• Now, select the Amazon ses services from the drop-down menu for which you can increase the quota.

• Press the “Sending Quota” button to request more quota for your account.

• Click on the “Request Quota Increase” button to enhance the email limit.

• Enter the required quota value and hit the request button.

Now, you have increased the sending quota amount of your Amazon AWS account.

3. WP Mail SMTP settings on WordPress

Once you have created the Amazon SES account and increased its limit, you must configure your WP Mail SMTP settings in WordPress.

• Log in to your WordPress dashboard and search for the WP Mail SMTP plugin in the left-hand side menu. Then, you have to check the license key

• To allow authentication and fill in the mailbox details, leave the Authentication toggle on and configure the mail settings such as SMTP Password, SMTP Username, From Name, and From Email.

• Now, you have to select the mailer option that you want to set up for your website. Choose “Amazon SES” in this option.

• Enter the access key and secret access key in this step to set up your mail delivirability.

• Now, hit the “Save settings” button to save the changes that you have done in the WP Mail SMTP settings.

• Verify your SES identities through the domain and email address.

• Preview your SES identities and hit the save button.

You have successfully created the Amazon SES for your WordPress website using the WP Mail SMTP plugin to resolve the email deliverability issues.

Conclusion

Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) is a robust and dependable platform for sending transactional, marketing, and notification emails quickly. Setting up Amazon SES is easy: There are only a few easy steps.