AWS email via roles

Jaloopa

Anyone used SES via AWS?

Running locally on my machine with a credentials file, I can send emails no problem.

On the server, we don't want to have to keep the secret key on the server, so have given the server an IAM role with rights to send email and raw email.

I can send an email via powershell on the server without providing credentials

Send-SESEmail -Source "xxxxxxxxxx" -Destination_ToAddress "xxxxxxxxxxx" -Text_Data "This is a test from SES using powershell" -Subject_Data "SES test powershell" -Region "eu-west-1"

Using equivalent code from the website code fails

Dim rawMessage As New RawMessage

Using stream As MemoryStream = MailMessageToMemoryStream(message)
    rawMessage.Data = stream
End Using

Dim request As New SendRawEmailRequest(rawMessage)
request.Destinations = New List(Of String) From {receiver}
request.Source = sender

Using client As New AmazonSimpleEmailServiceClient(RegionEndpoint.EUWest1)
    Dim response As SendRawEmailResponse = client.SendRawEmail(request)
    Dim s As String = response.MessageId
End Using

Unable to find credentials    
Exception 1 of 4:  System.InvalidOperationException: The app.config/web.config files for the application did not contain credential information

Zecc

Disclaimer: I have no idea what I'm talking about.

The docs for the AmazonSimpleEmailServiceClientconstructor you're using say

Constructs AmazonSimpleEmailServiceClient with the credentials loaded from the application's default configuration

Try using another constructor, the one which signature is AmazonSimpleEmailServiceClient(AWSCredentials, RegionEndpoint), with null as credentials.

Jaloopa

@zecc That's so crazy it just might work...

Jaloopa

That's crazy, it doesn't work

hungrier

I also have no idea what I'm talking about but maybe one of the subclasses of AWSCredentials would do what you need.