As of summer 2020, we will be using We use Amazon’s Simple Email Server to send outgoing emails from the Digital Collections.
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ses-smtp-user.20200807-125501.
Ansible settings
The credentials, stored in group_vars/vault, are named respectively:
smtp_username
smtp_password
Another variable, smtp_host, is stored in group_vars/kithe_staging. Its value is To get SMTP username and password, you use an AWS IAM credentials, but need to derive the password from the IAM secret key: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/dg/smtp-credentials.html#smtp-credentials-convert (ruby code: https://gist.github.com/damusix/c12400ee0ccb7e56351619ae2b19a303?permalink_comment_id=3077509 )
(There may be another way to get them from SES console… for some reason accessing AWS SES console it makes us set up from scratch including verifying our domain, when in fact SES is already working for us…. not sure what’s going on here).
Settings in scihist_digicoll code
app/lib/scihist_digicoll/env.rb and config/environments/production.rb add the settings to the settings. To view them in the console, try:
Rails.application.config.action_mailer.smtp_settings{:address=>"email-smtp.us-east-1.amazonaws.com .See local_env.yml.jw to see these settings pulled into the digital collections local_env.yml settings file",:port=>587,:user_name=>"joe",:password=>"schmo",:authentication=>:login,:enable_starttls_auto=>true}
Sending a test email from the console
ActionMailer::Base.mail(from: 'no-reply@sciencehistory.org', to: 'erubeiz@sciencehistory.org', subject: 'Test message from Eddie. Please ignore.', content_type: 'text/html', body: 'Testing').deliver_now
DKIM
We started using DKIM to prove our ownership of the sciencehistory.org email domain in March 2024.
See settings in AWS .