Psono Documentation

# Email configuration with Amazon SES

# Preamble

The server supports multiple email providers. This guide will explain how to configure the Psono server to use Amazon SES for email delivery.

# Configuration

During the installation of the server you have created a settings.yaml that needs to be adjusted now.

  1. Configure email address

    EMAIL_FROM: 'something@example.com'

    All emails that are sent by the server will come from this email address.

    Restart the server afterward.

  2. Add Amazon SES API credentials to setting.yml

    EMAIL_BACKEND: 'anymail.backends.amazon_ses.EmailBackend'
AMAZON_SES_CLIENT_PARAMS_ACCESS_KEY_ID: 'YOUR_AMAZON_SES_CLIENT_PARAMS_ACCESS_KEY_ID'
AMAZON_SES_CLIENT_PARAMS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY: 'YOUR_AMAZON_SES_CLIENT_PARAMS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY'
AMAZON_SES_CLIENT_PARAMS_REGION_NAME: 'YOUR_AMAZON_SES_CLIENT_PARAMS_REGION_NAME'
    • Replace YOUR_AMAZON_SES_CLIENT_PARAMS_ACCESS_KEY_ID with the access key id that was provided to you by Amazon.
    • Replace YOUR_AMAZON_SES_CLIENT_PARAMS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY with the secret access key that was provided to you by Amazon.
    • Replace YOUR_AMAZON_SES_CLIENT_PARAMS_REGION_NAME with the region name that was provided to you by Amazon, e.g. us-west-2

    Restart the server afterward.

# Testing

To send a test email to something@something.com execute:

docker run --rm \
  -v /opt/docker/psono/settings.yaml:/root/.psono_server/settings.yaml \
  -ti psono/psono-combo:latest python3 ./psono/manage.py sendtestmail something@something.com

If you receive this test email, then email should be configured proper.

# More Information

Psono is using Anymail under the hood. You can check out the official documentation here:

anymail.readthedocs.io/en/stable/esps/amazon_ses/ (opens new window)

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