Sending Emails from PHP using Amazon SES

To create a PHP script to sent email using Amazon SES, create a folder

mkdir ses-test
cd ses-test

1 2	mkdir ses-test cd ses-test

Install phpMailer using composer

composer require phpmailer/phpmailer

1	composer require phpmailer/phpmailer

Create a PHP file with following content

<?php

use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\PHPMailer;
use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\Exception;

require 'vendor/autoload.php';

$mail = new PHPMailer(true);

try {
    //Server settings
    $mail->SMTPDebug = 2;
    $mail->isSMTP();
    $mail->Host = 'email-smtp.us-east-1.amazonaws.com';  // YOUR SES END POINT
    $mail->SMTPAuth = true;
    $mail->Username = 'AKIAJSKJUHBOU2ARXVLQ';                 // SMTP Username
    $mail->Password = 'AjMmd3gRkmTyCY2QoCDkWmkGKA345zuhseS7gV0X6uz0';                           // SMTP Password
    $mail->SMTPSecure = 'tls';
    $mail->Port = 587;

    //Recipients
    $mail->setFrom('info@YOUR_SES_VERIFIED_DOMAIN.com', 'YOUR_SES_VERIFIED_DOMAIN.com');
    $mail->addAddress('you@your-domain.com', 'Your Name');     // If your SES is in Sandbox, you need to verify your email. 
    $mail->addReplyTo('info@YOUR_SES_VERIFIED_DOMAIN.com', 'YOUR_SES_VERIFIED_DOMAIN.com');


    //Content
    $mail->isHTML(true);                                  // Set email format to HTML
    $mail->Subject = 'Here is the subject';
    $mail->Body    = 'This is the HTML message body <b>in bold!</b>';
    $mail->AltBody = 'This is the body in plain text for non-HTML mail clients';

    $mail->send();
    echo 'Message has been sent';
} catch (Exception $e) {
    echo 'Message could not be sent.';
    echo 'Mailer Error: ' . $mail->ErrorInfo;
}

<?php

use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\PHPMailer;

use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\Exception;

require 'vendor/autoload.php';

$mail = new PHPMailer(true);

try {

//Server settings

$mail->SMTPDebug = 2;

$mail->isSMTP();

$mail->Host = 'email-smtp.us-east-1.amazonaws.com'; // YOUR SES END POINT

$mail->SMTPAuth = true;

$mail->Username = 'AKIAJSKJUHBOU2ARXVLQ'; // SMTP Username

$mail->Password = 'AjMmd3gRkmTyCY2QoCDkWmkGKA345zuhseS7gV0X6uz0'; // SMTP Password

$mail->SMTPSecure = 'tls';

$mail->Port = 587;

//Recipients

$mail->setFrom('info@YOUR_SES_VERIFIED_DOMAIN.com', 'YOUR_SES_VERIFIED_DOMAIN.com');

$mail->addAddress('[email protected]', 'Your Name'); // If your SES is in Sandbox, you need to verify your email.

$mail->addReplyTo('info@YOUR_SES_VERIFIED_DOMAIN.com', 'YOUR_SES_VERIFIED_DOMAIN.com');

//Content

$mail->isHTML(true); // Set email format to HTML

$mail->Subject = 'Here is the subject';

$mail->Body = 'This is the HTML message body <b>in bold!</b>';

$mail->AltBody = 'This is the body in plain text for non-HTML mail clients';

$mail->send();

echo 'Message has been sent';

} catch (Exception $e) {

echo 'Message could not be sent.';

echo 'Mailer Error: ' . $mail->ErrorInfo;

}

Now test it by running

root@ok:~/ses-test# php 1.php
2018-01-15 08:45:54 SERVER -> CLIENT: 220 email-smtp.amazonaws.com ESMTP SimpleEmailService-2762711029 fDkTVziQIcNhSCkxwSpA
2018-01-15 08:45:54 CLIENT -> SERVER: EHLO ok
2018-01-15 08:45:54 SERVER -> CLIENT: 250-email-smtp.amazonaws.com
                                      250-8BITMIME
                                      250-SIZE 10485760
                                      250-STARTTLS
                                      250-AUTH PLAIN LOGIN
                                      250 Ok
2018-01-15 08:45:54 CLIENT -> SERVER: STARTTLS
2018-01-15 08:45:54 SERVER -> CLIENT: 220 Ready to start TLS
2018-01-15 08:45:54 CLIENT -> SERVER: EHLO ok
2018-01-15 08:45:54 SERVER -> CLIENT: 250-email-smtp.amazonaws.com
                                      250-8BITMIME
                                      250-SIZE 10485760
                                      250-STARTTLS
                                      250-AUTH PLAIN LOGIN
                                      250 Ok
2018-01-15 08:45:54 CLIENT -> SERVER: AUTH LOGIN
2018-01-15 08:45:54 SERVER -> CLIENT: 334 VXNlcm5hbWU6
2018-01-15 08:45:54 CLIENT -> SERVER: <credentials hidden>
2018-01-15 08:45:54 SERVER -> CLIENT: 334 UGFzc3dvcmQ6
2018-01-15 08:45:54 CLIENT -> SERVER: <credentials hidden>
2018-01-15 08:45:54 SERVER -> CLIENT: 235 Authentication successful.
2018-01-15 08:45:54 CLIENT -> SERVER: MAIL FROM:<info@hostonnet.com>
2018-01-15 08:45:54 SERVER -> CLIENT: 250 Ok
2018-01-15 08:45:54 CLIENT -> SERVER: RCPT TO:<info@serverok.in>
2018-01-15 08:45:54 SERVER -> CLIENT: 250 Ok
2018-01-15 08:45:54 CLIENT -> SERVER: DATA
2018-01-15 08:45:54 SERVER -> CLIENT: 354 End data with <CR><LF>.<CR><LF>
2018-01-15 08:45:54 CLIENT -> SERVER: Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2018 03:45:54 -0500
2018-01-15 08:45:54 CLIENT -> SERVER: To: Yujin Boby <info@serverok.in>
2018-01-15 08:45:54 CLIENT -> SERVER: From: "hostonnet.com" <info@hostonnet.com>
2018-01-15 08:45:54 CLIENT -> SERVER: Reply-To: "hostonnet.com" <info@hostonnet.com>
2018-01-15 08:45:54 CLIENT -> SERVER: Subject: Here is the subject
2018-01-15 08:45:54 CLIENT -> SERVER: Message-ID: <4Px5PcyItpZIBJeyp03zA7sVd6uBkNPwuctLKMLeU4@ok>
2018-01-15 08:45:54 CLIENT -> SERVER: X-Mailer: PHPMailer 6.0.3 (https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer)
2018-01-15 08:45:54 CLIENT -> SERVER: MIME-Version: 1.0
2018-01-15 08:45:54 CLIENT -> SERVER: Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
2018-01-15 08:45:54 CLIENT -> SERVER:   boundary="b1_4Px5PcyItpZIBJeyp03zA7sVd6uBkNPwuctLKMLeU4"
2018-01-15 08:45:54 CLIENT -> SERVER: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
2018-01-15 08:45:54 CLIENT -> SERVER:
2018-01-15 08:45:54 CLIENT -> SERVER: This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
2018-01-15 08:45:54 CLIENT -> SERVER: --b1_4Px5PcyItpZIBJeyp03zA7sVd6uBkNPwuctLKMLeU4
2018-01-15 08:45:54 CLIENT -> SERVER: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
2018-01-15 08:45:54 CLIENT -> SERVER:
2018-01-15 08:45:54 CLIENT -> SERVER: This is the body in plain text for non-HTML mail clients
2018-01-15 08:45:54 CLIENT -> SERVER:
2018-01-15 08:45:54 CLIENT -> SERVER: --b1_4Px5PcyItpZIBJeyp03zA7sVd6uBkNPwuctLKMLeU4
2018-01-15 08:45:54 CLIENT -> SERVER: Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii
2018-01-15 08:45:54 CLIENT -> SERVER:
2018-01-15 08:45:54 CLIENT -> SERVER: This is the HTML message body <b>in bold!</b>
2018-01-15 08:45:54 CLIENT -> SERVER:
2018-01-15 08:45:54 CLIENT -> SERVER:
2018-01-15 08:45:54 CLIENT -> SERVER: --b1_4Px5PcyItpZIBJeyp03zA7sVd6uBkNPwuctLKMLeU4--
2018-01-15 08:45:54 CLIENT -> SERVER:
2018-01-15 08:45:54 CLIENT -> SERVER: .
2018-01-15 08:45:55 SERVER -> CLIENT: 250 Ok 01000160f8ff15ea-af0d4268-6c9e-43ee-8bbb-4081917f75d6-000000
2018-01-15 08:45:55 CLIENT -> SERVER: QUIT
2018-01-15 08:45:55 SERVER -> CLIENT: 221 Bye
Message has been sentroot@ok:~/ses-test#

root@ok:~/ses-test# php 1.php

2018-01-15 08:45:54 SERVER -> CLIENT: 220 email-smtp.amazonaws.com ESMTP SimpleEmailService-2762711029 fDkTVziQIcNhSCkxwSpA

2018-01-15 08:45:54 CLIENT -> SERVER: EHLO ok

2018-01-15 08:45:54 SERVER -> CLIENT: 250-email-smtp.amazonaws.com

250-8BITMIME

250-SIZE 10485760

250-STARTTLS

250-AUTH PLAIN LOGIN

250 Ok

2018-01-15 08:45:54 CLIENT -> SERVER: STARTTLS

2018-01-15 08:45:54 SERVER -> CLIENT: 220 Ready to start TLS

2018-01-15 08:45:54 CLIENT -> SERVER: EHLO ok

2018-01-15 08:45:54 SERVER -> CLIENT: 250-email-smtp.amazonaws.com

250-8BITMIME

250-SIZE 10485760

250-STARTTLS

250-AUTH PLAIN LOGIN

250 Ok

2018-01-15 08:45:54 CLIENT -> SERVER: AUTH LOGIN

2018-01-15 08:45:54 SERVER -> CLIENT: 334 VXNlcm5hbWU6

2018-01-15 08:45:54 CLIENT -> SERVER: <credentials hidden>

2018-01-15 08:45:54 SERVER -> CLIENT: 334 UGFzc3dvcmQ6

2018-01-15 08:45:54 CLIENT -> SERVER: <credentials hidden>

2018-01-15 08:45:54 SERVER -> CLIENT: 235 Authentication successful.

2018-01-15 08:45:54 CLIENT -> SERVER: MAIL FROM:<info@hostonnet.com>

2018-01-15 08:45:54 SERVER -> CLIENT: 250 Ok

2018-01-15 08:45:54 CLIENT -> SERVER: RCPT TO:<info@serverok.in>

2018-01-15 08:45:54 SERVER -> CLIENT: 250 Ok

2018-01-15 08:45:54 CLIENT -> SERVER: DATA

2018-01-15 08:45:54 SERVER -> CLIENT: 354 End data with <CR><LF>.<CR><LF>

2018-01-15 08:45:54 CLIENT -> SERVER: Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2018 03:45:54 -0500

2018-01-15 08:45:54 CLIENT -> SERVER: To: Yujin Boby <info@serverok.in>

2018-01-15 08:45:54 CLIENT -> SERVER: From: "hostonnet.com" <info@hostonnet.com>

2018-01-15 08:45:54 CLIENT -> SERVER: Reply-To: "hostonnet.com" <info@hostonnet.com>

2018-01-15 08:45:54 CLIENT -> SERVER: Subject: Here is the subject

2018-01-15 08:45:54 CLIENT -> SERVER: Message-ID: <4Px5PcyItpZIBJeyp03zA7sVd6uBkNPwuctLKMLeU4@ok>

2018-01-15 08:45:54 CLIENT -> SERVER: X-Mailer: PHPMailer 6.0.3 (https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer)

2018-01-15 08:45:54 CLIENT -> SERVER: MIME-Version: 1.0

2018-01-15 08:45:54 CLIENT -> SERVER: Content-Type: multipart/alternative;

2018-01-15 08:45:54 CLIENT -> SERVER: boundary="b1_4Px5PcyItpZIBJeyp03zA7sVd6uBkNPwuctLKMLeU4"

2018-01-15 08:45:54 CLIENT -> SERVER: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit