Complete Amazon SES / SNS / IAM setup for Mautic in 2023

[@AdmarBarreto]

Thank you very much Jozsef! Best tutorial in the internet.

[@dr.alan.niemies]

Man you're amazing. Just saved me tons of time because the last time I tried to mess with this I lost days. Now everything went smooth. Thanks a lot! 😀

[@GaryVCarter-i9v]

This is great Joey! Could you add an update at 8:23 to explain how this part works in Mautic 5 because the settings are now obscure regarding the Amazon SES settings.

[@keeponautomating]

Hi, this is covered in my blogpost here: joeykeller.com/mautic-5-composer-install-simplified/

[@AndreDike]

Amazingly great. You're the best and only for 2023. Thanks man

[@morelessdk]

It's a really good tutorial. If it's not working, and you have set up the cron jobs and all, you should check to see that your Amazon SES is out of the sandbox mode. Otherwise you will not be able to send mails from Mautic with SES (not even the test mails, but you will still get the "success" when you check the connection in Mautic).

[@HullioGQ]

Thank you! That is a good point to look out for.

[@FeanorCC]

Great video!! THX for your work!

[@GuilhermeBueno1]

Thank you! It worked!

[@liveloveeat7434]

Not getting my mautic domain to verify for some reason.. followed all your instructions though.. I even connected the bounce email in sns.. but still not getting the mautic domain to verify - very frustrating. Clear instructions - rather fast in the end. Thank you

[@ddowners]

Awesome video Jozsef, thank you so much! With your amazing knowledge, would you be willing to do another video showing the same process with Mautic 5? There have been some changes.. I tried your steps, but it seems that the SNS doesn't work? Also, I ended up having to change to smtp instead of ses+api to get emails to send. But then I'm unable to determine what URL I should use for the Endpoint for the SNS subscription when using SMTP (or if that's even possible).

[@keeponautomating]

Hi, yes, these are all in the announcement. SNS doesn't work, but you can use my plugin which fixes this issue: github.com/jos0405/mauticawsmailer

[@slobodannikolac3897]

Thanks a lot!

[@SingaporeMathsAcademyUK]

Thank you for the video. The SPF and DMARC sections you added some text but haven't explained where this came from?

[@keeponautomating]

The text comes from Amazon's SES panel. If you verify a domain, you'll have a new area, where DKIM is created. I'm explaining from 2:49

[@fondevops]

Hello, Thanks for the video. I have a question. How do you get the Endpoint URL you use when making the SNS Subscription? around min 9:24 on the video. What if I would like to use other SMTP service like Postal? how can I make my URL to try to get the bounce emails from Postal.

[@keeponautomating]

Hi, if you use Postal and Mautic 4, then better use this plugin: packagist.org/packages/lucascosta/postal-server-api-transport-for-mautic

[@fondevops]

@@keeponautomating Thanks for the answer. Actually I just installed a new Mautic 5.0.2 and setup Postal. I manually made the folder and run the composer command but still I dont see anything on the Plugins folder. Would this package work with Mautic 5 ? Thanks

[@keeponautomating]

@@fondevops Hi, this plugin is not M5 compatible. Also plz note, that M5 is not stable as of today, don't us it in production.

[@fondevops]

@@keeponautomating Thanks. I installed the Plugin on my Mautic4 server and Im sending emails via API with Postal. The last piece I need is how to handle bounce emails. How can I make the URL you made on Amazon SNS? or how can I integrate Postal with Mautic to handle bounce emails?

[@williamgustavomarquetti806]

Hello! Congratulations on the video, very detailed and explanatory. I did all the procedures as described and it apparently worked correctly, but I have a question. Is there any way to check notifications that arrived from SNS on Mautic? Any kind of log about this? It was not very clear how to check emails that were bounced or complaints coming from SNS requests. Can you help me?

[@keeponautomating]

Hello, there is no log, but I'm working on an app, that does that. It's in Beta now. If you want to see how it works, drop me an email: [e-mail]

[@AndreDike]

If you can do a tutorial on cron jobs too.

[@Pi11e]

Great video! When confirming SNS subscription you might receive an error (Missing required key 'Token' in params). It just takes some minutes…

[@keeponautomating]

Hey, interesting. I never had that. Does it 'fix itself' after couple of minutes?

[@abruder]

Thank you! Great video One question.. Are the SPF and DMARC codes exclusively for Cloudfare (where I assume you have a hosting or another service with them) or anybody can use those codes? Let's say HostGator? Thanks

[@keeponautomating]

Hi, these all have to be set for ANY outgoing email regardless of DNS hosting. If you host your DNS at hostgator, you MUST set it there as well. It will improve your deliverability BIG TIME.

[@estruturavan]

Mano você manja muito, mas sua didática é muito difícil de entender... mas de qualquer forma sou grato

[@Ketodietresults]

I've been struggling with setting up Mautic for a couple weeks. My Email Settings page is not showing "Service to send mail through" dropdown to select SES. I have absolutely no idea why. Installed once via ZIP on shared server, then again on Amazon EC2. Picked wrong OS and had to re-do. Hit an error at almost every command. Hours later and I got Mautic running but same exact issue. I used this line from your tutorial "composer require symfony/amazon-mailer" - is this what's supposed to add the dropdown? Any idea why this is happening?!

[@keeponautomating]

Watch this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/m5vHaKqcf8-bh9E&lc it explains it all

[@Ketodietresults]

@@keeponautomating Thanks for linking new video. I got it working after days of plugging away at the issue (lots of help from asking AI questions and referencing your tutorials). I'll def check this out, sure I'll learn something new!

[@HullioGQ]

Since you didn't et up deliverability notifications, should I follow the same process to set it up?

[@keeponautomating]

Don’t. Mautic can’t make sense of it. You will just end up creating errors in your log.

[@HullioGQ]

@@keeponautomatingThank you!

[@SingaporeMathsAcademyUK]

We get an error occured while trying to deliver mail...with a .txt attachment with failure code: Diagnostic-Code: smtp; 554 5.7.1 Action set by DMARC Status: 5.7.1 Any ideas how we can fix this?

[@keeponautomating]

Hi, this error needs to be investigated, I can't give you a straight answer.

[@rabiibrahimi]

How about IP Address? what is the best way to use IP address on Amazon SES for better deliverability. Is it necessary to use an IP address ? Thanks

[@keeponautomating]

Depends on the volume and your own reputation. If you have a smaller list and send infrequently, you should use Amazon's IP pool. If not, you can have a dedicated IP.

[@rabiibrahimi]

@@keeponautomating a small list is what couple thousands (we are intending to send an email to 15K per month).

[@keeponautomating]

I think no need for your own IP- you can't even properly warm it up with such a small amount of email @@rabiibrahimi

[@rabiibrahimi]

Thanks@@keeponautomating