We use Amazon’s Simple Email Server to send outgoing emails from the Digital Collections.
The IAM identity we use to send email is:
ses-smtp-user.20200807-125501.
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",: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