Thanks for the content. One question. How do you get the emails forwarded from the wordpress host to gmail? I want people to send emails to my domain, but I want to see the emails in my gmail. Looks like this is what you've configured here.
@@moiacolucci SES only sends mail. If someone sends an email through a contact form it will go to the email address the form is set up to send to. So if you had it set to set to xyz@gmail.com, any form entries would wind up in that gmail account in-box. If you have more questions I will be happy to help.
Nat Thompson thanks for the quick reply. I think I was getting the response and reply from my domain confused. I was able to configure the OTHER SMTP setting option with the credentials from SES. After configuring a rule in SES, everything gets forwarded to my gmail. For outbound, I just configured my gmail to route through the SES.
Thanks for the video. I got mine setup with WP Mailer SMTP Free edition and SES using wp-config file constants, if anyone is interested it should look like this: define( 'WPMS_SMTP_HOST', 'email-smtp.us-east-1.amazonaws.com' ); //change to your region define( 'WPMS_SMTP_PORT', 587 ); define( 'WPMS_SSL', 'tls' ); define( 'WPMS_SMTP_AUTH', true ); define( 'WPMS_SMTP_USER', 'USERNAME_GOES_HERE' ); define( 'WPMS_SMTP_PASS', 'PASSWORD_Here' ); define( 'WPMS_SMTP_AUTOTLS', true ); You still need to go into production in SES settings as you showed, until approved you can email yourself to verify it works.
Hi sir, it was a very good tutorial, I am using the easy SMTP plugin that sends email using test mail, but when I try to send mail via contact form 7 it's not working neither I am getting any email when I change the admin email address, any thoughts? been trying for the last few days. I am using a subdomain.
I stopped using Contact Form 7 because I ran into similar issues. I use the pro version of WP SMTP and it works amazingly well. You can give it a try via my affiliate link -> NatThompson.com/wp-mail-smtp
can we use other SMTP option in wordpress and use SES credentials like hostname and port? As Amazon SES is available only with Pro plan and i can not buy it right now.
Yes! There is a free plugin that works with SES -> wordpress.org/plugins/wp-ses/ I will be posting a video soon on how to set it up. It lets you connect to SES without any cost.
@@NatThompsonFYI thank you, that would be really helpful, I'll be waiting for that video. Amazon SES for woocommerce, which allows you to send/receive emails when any woocommerce activity happens on your site. I have a site hosted on aws and with aws its not that simple to create domain based emails like other hosting providers like hostinger etc. Please cover this in your tutorials in which you make domain based email of a domain which have hosted on aws and then setting up on WordPress/woocommerce. I am having alot of issues with the smtp of WordPress, the emails don't work on WordPress or I'm not finding the right plug-ins. I would really appreciate if you do it with free plug-ins.
Let me know any questions you have about setting up AWS SES with your WordPress Website and any other topics you'd like to see tutorials on.
Thanks for the content. One question. How do you get the emails forwarded from the wordpress host to gmail? I want people to send emails to my domain, but I want to see the emails in my gmail. Looks like this is what you've configured here.
@@moiacolucci SES only sends mail. If someone sends an email through a contact form it will go to the email address the form is set up to send to. So if you had it set to set to xyz@gmail.com, any form entries would wind up in that gmail account in-box.
If you have more questions I will be happy to help.
Nat Thompson thanks for the quick reply. I think I was getting the response and reply from my domain confused. I was able to configure the OTHER SMTP setting option with the credentials from SES. After configuring a rule in SES, everything gets forwarded to my gmail. For outbound, I just configured my gmail to route through the SES.
Thanks for the video. I got mine setup with WP Mailer SMTP Free edition and SES using wp-config file constants, if anyone is interested it should look like this:
define( 'WPMS_SMTP_HOST', 'email-smtp.us-east-1.amazonaws.com' );
//change to your region
define( 'WPMS_SMTP_PORT', 587 );
define( 'WPMS_SSL', 'tls' );
define( 'WPMS_SMTP_AUTH', true );
define( 'WPMS_SMTP_USER', 'USERNAME_GOES_HERE' );
define( 'WPMS_SMTP_PASS', 'PASSWORD_Here' );
define( 'WPMS_SMTP_AUTOTLS', true );
You still need to go into production in SES settings as you showed, until approved you can email yourself to verify it works.
Good job!
Hi sir, it was a very good tutorial, I am using the easy SMTP plugin that sends email using test mail, but when I try to send mail via contact form 7 it's not working neither I am getting any email when I change the admin email address, any thoughts? been trying for the last few days. I am using a subdomain.
I stopped using Contact Form 7 because I ran into similar issues. I use the pro version of WP SMTP and it works amazingly well. You can give it a try via my affiliate link -> NatThompson.com/wp-mail-smtp
can we use other SMTP option in wordpress and use SES credentials like hostname and port?
As Amazon SES is available only with Pro plan and i can not buy it right now.
Yes! There is a free plugin that works with SES -> wordpress.org/plugins/wp-ses/
I will be posting a video soon on how to set it up. It lets you connect to SES without any cost.
@@NatThompsonFYI thank you, that would be really helpful, I'll be waiting for that video.
Amazon SES for woocommerce, which allows you to send/receive emails when any woocommerce activity happens on your site.
I have a site hosted on aws and with aws its not that simple to create domain based emails like other hosting providers like hostinger etc.
Please cover this in your tutorials in which you make domain based email of a domain which have hosted on aws and then setting up on WordPress/woocommerce. I am having alot of issues with the smtp of WordPress, the emails don't work on WordPress or I'm not finding the right plug-ins.
I would really appreciate if you do it with free plug-ins.
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