AWS SES wp_mail() drop-in Use AWS SES to send your WordPress emails. Easily.
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AWS SES is a very simple UI-less plugin for sending wp_mail()s email via AWS SES.

Once you have git cloned the repo, or added it as a Git Submodule, add the following constants to your wp-config.php:

define( 'AWS_SES_WP_MAIL_REGION', 'us-east-1' );
define( 'AWS_SES_WP_MAIL_KEY', '' );
define( 'AWS_SES_WP_MAIL_SECRET', '' );

If you plan to use IAM instance profiles to protect your AWS credentials on disk you'll need the following configuration instead:

define('AWS_SES_WP_MAIL_REGION', 'us-east-1');
define('AWS_SES_WP_MAIL_USE_INSTANCE_PROFILE', true);

The next thing that you should do is to verify your sending domain for SES:

wp aws-ses verify-sending-domain

Once you have verified your sending domain, you are all good to go!

wp aws-ses send <to> <subject> <message> [--from-email=<email>]

Send a test email via the command line. Good for testing!

Created by Human Made for high volume and large-scale sites. We run AWS SES wp_mail() on sites with millions of monthly page views, and thousands of sites.

Written and maintained by Joe Hoyle. Thanks to all our contributors.

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