amazon ses

[pelican]

has anyone tried integrate using amazon ses for vbulletin email notification and email verification?

it seems like a good solution for big board as usually big board send lots of email notification which isp occasional flag them as spam.

i wanted to implement amazon ses for notification. need some insight.

[i156]

I am interested in this as well.

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I set the Amazon SES account up and it was approved for production. I added all the SMTP info to the email settings in vBulletin but it didn't work. No idea why.

[kvnband]

We're also trying to get this set up to work via SMTP, and it just isn't happening. Port is opened in the firewall and all of the settings are correct, but vbulletin just won't send mail through SES. Kind of disappointing, really. Going to keep playing with it and see if we can figure it out.

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Figured it out. Don't select "TLS" in the dropdown, select "SSL" on the email options page in vBulletin. That's all it took to get it working for us.

[i156]

I tried that but it didn't work. Did you change anything else?

[kvnband]

Nope, that's all we did. Port 465, host being what amazon provides you, and SSL selected from the dropdown and it's working great.

Also make sure that you've got OpenSSL compiled in with your PHP installation. You can run an email diagnostic from the vbulletin admincp under maintenance. That might give you a bit of information on where the problem is at...

[frankk27]

This is the only forum post I could find about integrating Amazon SES into vBulletin so I wanted to make sure I added my experience here. The integration definitely gave me a few issues. Make sure you choose SSL and port 465. This is the only combination I found that worked .

SMTP was also broken in version 4.0.6. The script tried to send the "Date" mail header twice and Amazon didn't like it. If you look at the "includes/class_mail.php" file for version 4.2, you'll see that they remove the additional Date header (Line 290 in the file. Found in the start function). Once you remove this line of code, you shouldn't have any issues sending mail with Amazon SES in vBulletin.

[dougdirac]

I can't get "Contact Us" or "Email Other Members" emails to work with SES? Any suggestions?

I think the issue is the From field of these emails show an email address that's not from my domain. Any ideas?

[kh99]

Maybe the changes described in this thread will work for you: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=311062

[dougdirac]

Thanks. They probably would work. I ended up just changing email services. Now using Mandrill which is much much better anyhow.

[pjkcards]

Originally Posted by kvnband

Nope, that's all we did. Port 465, host being what amazon provides you, and SSL selected from the dropdown and it's working great.

Also make sure that you've got OpenSSL compiled in with your PHP installation. You can run an email diagnostic from the vbulletin admincp under maintenance. That might give you a bit of information on where the problem is at...

Why is OpenSSL recommended here?

I've tried all the settings recommended and it doesn't appear to me working. SES recommends TLS, so why SSL?

Mine isn't working (with TLS or SSL), so anyone who has it working who could share their settings would be appreciated, or recommendations for troubleshooting.

Thanks.