Sending Emails with AWS SES NodeJS and Nodemailer

For mobile developers

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The setup for AWS can be challenging.

Difficulty: Easy | Normal | Challenging

Prerequisites:

• Be familiar with NodeJS, Nodemailer. The best place for this is with the proceeding articles in this series.

Terminology

Amazon AWS: Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a subsidiary of Amazon providing on-demand cloud computing platforms and APIs to individuals, companies, and governments.

AWS SES: Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) is a cost-effective, flexible, and scalable email service that enables developers to send mail from within any application.

Node.js: An open-source, cross-platform, JavaScript runtime environment that executes JavaScript code outside a web browser.

Nodemailer: A module for Node.js applications to allow easy email sending.

Setting up from the AWS management console

Select the Simple Email Service

Then on the left we choose email addresses

Then we click on Verify a New Email Address