WP Mail SES

Installation Instructions

Follow these instructions:

1. Amazon confirmation and approval

You will need to setup Simple Email Service (SES) on your Amazon Web Services
account before you can use this plugin.

For more information, read Amazon’s documentation on how to setup
SES

2. Update configuration

Update your wp-config.php file to include the required constants:

/**
 * Include your AWS keys.
 *
 * A safe approach is to store your key and secret in environment
 * variables. This way, your credentials are not hard coded in version
 * control.
 */

define( 'WP_MAIL_SES_ACCESS_KEY_ID', getenv( 'WP_MAIL_SES_ACCESS_KEY_ID' ) );
define( 'WP_MAIL_SES_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY', getenv( 'WP_MAIL_SES_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY' ) );

/**
 * Define the endpoint for your emails to be sent. Endpoints include:
 *
 * email.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
 * email.us-west-2.amazonaws.com
 * email.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com
 */

define( 'WP_MAIL_SES_ENDPOINT', 'email.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com' );

Optional extra configuration:

/**
 * Define the composer information for your email (who the email is
 * sent from). The email address must be approved in your AWS console
 * in the specified region.
 *
 * This email address is used if a composer is not already defined by
 * the email.
 */

define( 'WP_MAIL_SES_COMPOSER_NAME', 'Company Name' );
define( 'WP_MAIL_SES_COMPOSER_EMAIL', 'confirmed@example.com' );

/**
 * Disable accessing of statistics from the Dashboard.
 * This can help if you're hitting the API too frequently.
 */

define( 'WP_MAIL_SES_HIDE_STATISTICS', true );

3. Install plugin

Copy this folder wp-mail-ses to your /wp-content/plugins/ directory.

4. Activate plugin

Go to your WordPress Administration and activate the WP Mail SES plugin.

5. Send a test message

Go to: Admin » Settings » WP Mail SES

Why isn’t my email sending?

There are a number of reasons that an email might not be sent via SES, here is
a quick checklist to ensure that the plugin has been setup properly:

Have you:

• Defined WP_MAIL_SES_ACCESS_KEY_ID, WP_MAIL_SES_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY and
  WP_MAIL_SES_ENDPOINT in wp-config.php?
• Confirmed that you own a domain name in the Amazon SES console?
• Confirmed an email address in the Amazon SES console?
• Requested your service limit to be increased ?
• Tried defining WP_MAIL_SES_COMPOSER_EMAIL in wp-config.php with your
  verified email address?

I can send emails to myself, but not to others

In order to send emails to the public, you need to move out of the Amazon SES
Sandbox and into the production account. Read the documentation on
Amazon.

Got another question?

You can post your question on GitHub.

0.0.4

• Integrated with Travis CI
• Added PHPCS and linked to WordPress-Extra standards
• Cleaned up code with phpcs/phpcbf
• Added .editorconfig
• Updated SimpleEmailService to 0.9.0

0.0.3

• Bug fix for $recipients variable [#3]

0.0.2

• Added filter to notify of email sent status [#2]

0.0.1

• Initial release