SES
Before integrating Amazon SES with Fyno, you will need to have an account already set up with SES.
You must have an Amazon SES SMTP username and password to access the SMTP interface. These credentials are different from your AWS access keys and are unique to each region.
Steps to create your AWS SMTP credentials
Follow the steps below to integrate your AWS SMTP account with Fyno.
Find the Provider
Navigate to the Integrations page. Under “Email” section, click on the “SES” button.
Configure the Integration
In the pop-up that appears, fill in:
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Custom name: Provide a name that would help you identify the configured account in Fyno’s portal.
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Auth Type: There are 2 different Auth Types:
- Secret Access Key
- Access Key ID: To get the access key ID, log into your Amazon AWS account and from the top right corner, open the menu by clicking on your name and navigate to “Security Credentials”. On the page that opens, find “Access Keys” and enter the details.
- Secret Access Key: To get the access key ID, log into your Amazon AWS account and from the top right corner, open the menu by clicking on your name and navigate to “Security Credentials”. On the page that opens, find “Access Keys” and enter the details.
- SMTP Password
- SMTP Username: To get SMTP username, log into your Amazon AWS account and search for SES. Click on ‘Amazon Simple Email Service’. Go to SMTP settings in the left navigation pane. Click ‘Create SMTP Credentials’ and then click ‘Create User’. Save or download SMTP username and password details.
- SMTP Password: To get SMTP password, log into your Amazon AWS account and search for SES. Click on ‘Amazon Simple Email Service’. Go to SMTP settings in the left navigation pane. Click ‘Create SMTP Credentials’ and then click ‘Create User’. Save or download SMTP username and password details.
- Secret Access Key
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Region: From your Amazon AWS account, find the region either in the browser URL or you may also select the Region as per the drop-down next to your username in the AWS console.
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Content-Type: You can choose either “Text/Plain” (no rich content in emails, simple plain text) or “Text/HTML” (Rich content including images, buttons and links will be supported) depending on the type of content you intend on pushing in the templates.
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From Email: Enter the Email ID from which the emails will be sent from. This must be an email ID with a domain that is already registered with Amazon SES.
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From Name: Enter the name that would be displayed in the “From” line. It may be a person or a group name.
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Reply to: This is an optional field. You may enter an alternate email ID so that when the recipient clicks on “Reply”, the email ID you have entered in the “Reply To” will be populated. This can be different from the “From” email ID.
Message Delivery Status
While Fyno has the capacity to track the notification delivery status, SES requires a manual update of the Fyno Callback Endpoint in order to receive these reports. To update the Callback manually follow these steps: