[boto3] Send an email using SES

With boto3, you can send emails from Python via SES.

        client = boto3.client('ses')
        response = client.send_email(
            Source='[email protected]',
            Destination={
                'ToAddresses': [
                    '[email protected]',
                ],
                'CcAddresses': [
                    '[email protected]',
                ],
                'BccAddresses': [
                    '[email protected]',
                ]
            },
            Message={
                'Subject': {
                    'Data': 'SES Mail by Python',
                    'Charset': 'UTF-8'
                },
                'Body': {
                    'Text': {
                        'Data': 'This is text mail',
                        'Charset': 'UTF-8'
                    },
                    'Html': {
                        'Data': '<h1>This is Html Mail</h1>',
                        'Charset': 'UTF-8'
                    }
                }
            },
            ReplyToAddresses=[
                '[email protected]',
            ]
        )

Execute

When executed, an email will be sent as shown below.

Tips

HTML email and text email

It seems that Message ['Body'] ['Text'] is not displayed when there is Message ['Body'] ['Html'] and the client can see HTML mail.

About the address

Use the address you put in Source that has been authenticated by your SES account.

About authority

The permissions required to run are ses: SendEmail. Create a role like the one below and assign it to a Lambda or IAM user.

{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [{
      "Action": [
        "ses:SendEmail"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:ses:*"
      ],
      "Effect": "Allow"
  }]
}

Other

It seems that you can also process bounces, so if you are interested, please see below. http://boto3.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference/services/ses.html#SES.Client.send_email