Send Emails with AWS Amplify and SES

[@focusotter]

Hey everyone! I have an updated video that showcases some nice updates that Amplify introduced. This video is still just fine, but the new project shows a frontend built with Amplify's component library, and you no longer have to hop into cloudformation to add the policy template! th-cam.com/video/9qkCxZM7VS8/w-d-xo.html

[@khandoor7228]

Great stuff Michael, look forward to more awesome content!

[@AllanLeonardJr]

Awesome, I'm really looking forward to trying this out, thanks!!!

[@TN2USA]

very good amplify material. appreciated it ..

[@ToreyLittlefield]

Thanks hope you can keep making great content 👍

[@MrRoryG]

Excellent video.

[@davidhaas2528]

Thanks, this worked for me.

[@HodsonShu]

thank you so much

[@bobobobo-ki2fw]

I love you!!!!!! moooar!!!!!!

[@88sila88]

Thanks for the video and the explanation! Very helpful!
In your video you are setting up the lambda trigger for DynamoDB. Do you know if I can also use SES for Cognito custom messages? Because while testing the codeParameter for e.g. the "Forgot Password E-Mail" was not passed and the default cognito message was send beside of the SES E-Mail...

[@JulienMalfait]

You need to associate the triggers in your auth api.

[@88sila88]

@@JulienMalfait thanks!😊
I already manage to set it up as I wanted, although it was more complicated than expected 😅

[@michaelrooze278]

I need the code for the contact form

[@Bastardovl]

at 19:00, when i tried to push i got this error:
Packaging lambda function failed with the error
Command failed with exit code 2: yarn --no-bin-links --production
Usage: yarn [options]
yarn: error: no such option: --no-bin-links

[@Bastardovl]

update: I just reinstalled yarn ( npm install -g yarn ) and now amplify push worked

[@LeonardoArangoCifuentes]

Hello, How can i work login with databse at amplify?

[@divayht]

Hello Michael, great video ! Account registration emails and password recovery email sent by Cognito are sent, but they go to spam folder by default. I configured my custom domain on ses, and cognito uses it.Now I have to move out of the SES Sandbox Mode. AWS denied my request and ask me to explain how I will handle the unsubscribe requests and bounces. I don't know really what to answer, I thought everything was handled by Cognito. I looked at the email registration sent automatically by Cognito and they do not contain an unsubscribe link. So I have to customize this message to add the link. I read online that I can handle Cognito custom email with a Custom message lambda trigger. That seems really complicated to do. Do you think it's the way, or is there a simpler option ?

[@JulienMalfait]

Isn't it an SPF not set on your "from" email?

[@Bastardovl]

i think it need some update, let me try again

[@Bastardovl]

After some changes it worked for me.
At 20:13 on _app.js
import { Amplify } from "@aws-amplify/core";
import config from "../aws-exports";
At 21:54 on ContactForm.js:
// import { API } from "aws-amplify";
import { generateClient } from "aws-amplify/api";
import { createCandidate } from "../src/graphql/mutations";
const client = generateClient();
(...)
// await API.graphql({
await client.graphql({
I had to downgrade from NodeJS 18 to 16 because something that i don't remember was not working and also had to change it on AWS console because after finish the project the data was going to dynamoDB but not to e-mail.
This is my first back-end project, thank you a lot.

[@bobobobo-ki2fw]

your blog is down

[@mohsinnisar8567]

gives error when i run it on the local host, in first step

[@mohsinnisar8567]

Updated to latest node v14.17.6 and now it works :)

[@harshitsharma8215]

hey were you able to make this entire project ?

[@mohsinnisar8567]

@@harshitsharma8215 yes. I was doing some mistake that I forgot now 😂

[@mohsinnisar8567]

@@harshitsharma8215 ops, the mistake is mentioned in above comment.

[@harshitsharma8215]

@@mohsinnisar8567 i could not connect my front end to the backend , do you still have the code ? because the github link which michael provided is very different from what he is doing in the video

[@harshitsharma8215]

bro can i have the github link of this project?

[@focusotter]

Yo! Yup, a couple things have changed, but I'll get the repo updated today to reflect that and update the video description and reply to this message when it's done.