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Setup Amazon SES as SMTP

An SMTP Server is an application that allows your device or server to receive and send Electronic Mails (e-mail) to various email receivers and senders. SMTP stands for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol and it is a standard for sending emails. They use a wireless carrier to route text/push messages to the inbox of email applications.

By default, miniOrange provides and uses its own SMTP Server to send OTPs to users. If you have a custom SMTP Server configured, you can use the same to send Emails from your miniOrange account. Check out our list of Supported SMTP Servers.

miniOrange IDP allows you to configure Amazon SES as SMTP email provider hence giving you freedom to manage, monitor, and troubleshoot your email communications.

Prerequisites

• For Cloud Version - If your SMTP/Email servers are behind a firewall, make sure to open the right ports and allow inbound connections from our IP Addresses.

  You can whitelist the below IPs and open the given ports to make the request:

IP	Possible Ports
52.55.147.107	25 or 465 or 587 or 2525
52.86.38.163	25 or 465 or 587 or 2525

• For On-Premise Version - If your SMTP/Email servers are behind a firewall, make sure to open the right ports and allow inbound connections from your server's IP Addresses.

  The possible ports are 25 or 465 or 587 or 2525.




Follow the guide below to configure a custom SMTP server in your account:

1. SMTP Configuration for Amazon SES

• Log in to your Amazon SES account.
• Follow this link to verify your domain Verify Domains.
• Follow this guide to get production access AWS Production Access.
• Follow the link to get your SMTP credentials SMTP Credentials.



• For example host can be set as email-smtp.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com. The port can be assigned as 587. Use the Username and Password created in the above step.
• Now go to the miniOrange dashboard and login with your miniOrange credentials.
Note: Please login with your on-premise IDP credentials if you are using an on-premise IDP.


• Go to Customization -> Custom Email Provider and add the details which are available on the SMTP server side.





• Click on Save and follow the below steps to test the custom Email Provider.



2. Test SMTP

• Once the SMTP is set, you can enter a test email and click on Test Configuration to be able to verfy if the SMTP flow is working or not.