AWS Simple Email Service (SES) with Bubble.io - Custom low-code e-mail back-end

[@LaunchableAI]

Important note (forgot to mention this in the video): if you are planning to deploy a system like this, make sure to protect your API with API keys & usage plans (see here: docs.aws.amazon.com/apigateway/latest/developerguide/api-gateway-api-usage-plans.html), and you may also want to look into DMARC authentication (dmarc.org). You don't want someone using your SES verified identity to send spam! :S

[@shyampreddy]

HI Korey, many thanks for yet another wonderful extremely useful video! You are killing it.. :)

[@LaunchableAI]

Thanks! Glad you liked it!

[@marcelo.victor]

Thanks for this. i'm Landowski from Bubble forum, that send this request. I'm using your others videos to learn too. Keep the awesome work!

[@LaunchableAI]

Thanks! I hope it helps.

[@dwali3324]

I have so many questions ' I'm trying to develop a mobile app with bubble or flutterflow, the app should allow users to create a profile and upload their sports highlights video, the users should also have access to school emails which i want to pull in through an API , so basically there we be several hundred users uploading video and emailing schools in which schools can reply to the user all within the mobile app and I want to charge a few dollars a month for the service, so I will need backend storage to handle potentially thousands of videos,, plesse help, I have some programming experience

[@Darkjy01]

Hello! Thank you a lot for your tutorial, I have a problem with SES, with a pluging that allow people to create templates of newsletters with a Click & Drag system (that create a HTML body), when i send it with SES, there are lot of appearing in the mail, i don't know how to deal with it, do you guys have an idea?

[@LaunchableAI]

Those characters are "new line" characters, telling the mail viewer to insert a line break. Depending on how you're interacting with the plugin, maybe you can "find and replace" the characters. Are you using it through Bubble, and need to store the text in the database? If so, you can use the built-in find and replace function. If not, please feel free to provide some more details, and I'll see if I can help. Good luck!

[@Darkjy01]

@@LaunchableAI It is generated inside bubble, with a pluggin, and stocked into a text field in a data. I don't know how to do a find and replace in bubble directly, and i'm scared if i do that in ses code directly, i won't be able to send text mail again. Maybe we could talk in mail, i will send you screenshots etc, and if we solve it, i will put the answer here to help people who are using your tutorial and facing the same problem

[@LaunchableAI]

@@Darkjy01 Sure. Feel free to send a message via our website

[@Darkjy01]

​@@LaunchableAI For the solution we found : It appear when you send HTML by a text field, in a data in bubble, aws detect it is HTML but with text newlines, so : You have to add : BODY_HTML = BODY_HTML.replace("\ ", "") in the HTML body part of the code.

[@bojanduric3982]

Hi. Great tutorial and it worked like a charm. You mentioned possibility of using AWS SES api plugin we created for email confirmation and password reset process. Any pointers how to achieve it? Thanks

[@LaunchableAI]

Thanks Bojan! It depends on what you are trying to do. Are you looking to setup user authentication? If so, I'd recommend checking out AWS Cognito, which is a user management solution (similar to Auth0). If you're looking to hook into an existing system, but just use SES as your mail broker, maybe share some more details and I can offer more help.

[@marcelo.victor]

Thanks again for this video, it helped me a lot and I managed to make it work! Unfortunately I tried as hard as I could and couldn't send emails as if I were my SaaS client sending the email... I'm developing a support ticket system and customers want the transactional email to arrive as if it came from their email... Do you have any tips in this regard?

[@LaunchableAI]

Hm, that's tricky. I'm not sure of any service that allows you to send mail from arbitrary domains/addresses. My first thought is that you would need control/access to each domain/address you want to send from (i.e., your customers' addresses), but that's probably not feasible. Maybe there is a service available that will allow users to grant you proxy access so that you can send mail from addresses (e.g., the service emails the customer asking to approve an integration, and you get credentials that you can use to mail from that address). Unfortunately I don't know of any service like that, though. What you could look into is programmatically registering new customer e-mail addresses with SES. You could tell customers that they'll get an email requesting access from AWS, and then add their domain/address to your AWS SES account. This is not a great solution, and maybe not even feasible, but it's all I can think of at the moment :s

[@marcelo.victor]

@@LaunchableAI Thanks for the quick reply! At this exactly moment, i am reading about send a SES verifier email to customer and then send ticket requests and replies on their behalf. But even this is hard! But I will keep trying! Thank you so much!

[@LaunchableAI]

@@marcelo.victor Good luck!

[@flavioguardia8271]

Hello guy. My name is Flávio, I'm from Brazil and I'm a new Bubble user. This is the best video I found on the topic on the internet. I had already asked other Bubble developers for help to configure SES but I was unsuccessful. Following your tutorial I can now send emails via Bubble. However, if possible, I would very much like to see a tutorial on receiving emails through SES as well. I need to start a flow according to the content of the email received and if it is possible to receive I can create the conditional rules and run the flows I need. It would be possible? Anyway, thank you very much for the excellent content you produced.

[@LaunchableAI]

Hi Flavio. Thanks for the kind words! Glad you liked the tutorial. I don't think we've got the time to put up a tutorial on this topic right now, but I'm happy to try to help. Have you checked out these 2 guides: docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/services-ses.html aws.amazon.com/blogs/messaging-and-targeting/auto-reply-to-incoming-emails-using-amazon-simple-email-service-ses/ These might be helpful in getting started. The basic idea is to configure a lambda to fire on receiving an email. You could set up a webhook in Bubble (an API workflow that is public), that your lambda can connect to (you can use urllib or the requests module), and then trigger a workflow. Let me know if you want to discuss further!

[@blissrides]

This is amazing thank you for this content keep up the great work. Could I make a request to have a vid made for dialogflow? That’ll be super awesome thank you

[@LaunchableAI]

Thanks for the positive feedback! I'm glad you liked it. And thanks for the suggestion! I don't have experience with DialogFlow, but it looks interesting. If I work with it, I'll be sure to record a tutorial about it.