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We want to use the more advanced features of Amazon SES such as their API for having better control and visibility over emails. However I also want it to work OOB with our current system which is simply a username/password and SMTP URI. Is that still possible with Amazon SES or will everything have to be an HTTP Post?

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Amazon just released SMTP access to SES and it's not too difficult to setup now. Here's a howto that I wrote this morning with details on setting it up: http://www.millcreeksys.com/2011/12/14/how-to-configure-your-postfix-server-to-relay-email-through-amazon-simple-email-service-ses/

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Amazon SES will require you to use their API, so I believe everything will have to be an HTTP Post.

Are you against integrating an API into your application?

EDIT: Found a solution. Let me know if that works.

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Like you, I don't want to have to develop any wrappers or extra code to use amazon ses with our forum (which uses smtp) and after quite a bit of browsing, I came across this (http://computerone.co.nz/community/discussion/33/amazon-simple-email-ses-smtp-relay-service).

Once I got my production account for ses, I just put in my aws keys, verified my forum email address and changed the settings. It took literally less than a minute once I got my aws production access from amazon, as long as you follow their instructions. In the long term I will probably end up integrating ses with iss but for now it works fine.

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