Dummy SMTP using SES

Question

Hi,  
  
We have a use-case where we want to use SES SMTP interface for our business applications to send emails. But instead of actually sending emails, would like to write the passed in parameters to S3. Is this doable? I don't see it in the documentation. Something along these lines: https://pypi.org/project/nullsmtp/  
  
Thanks,  
JGP

Answer

Hi JGP,   
  
I could understand your use-case where you particularly checking if there is any feature in SES to send emails, where you do not actually should send an email but rather should be able to store the information about that email to S3.   
  
I would like to tell you SES is just a relay server and it just receives and forwards the messages, without keeping any details or comprehensive logs/parameters at its end. Also, SES do not currently have any feature in place to store parameters of emails to S3/or at its own end(at SES's end), with/without actually sending the emails.   
  
However, if you’re sending the emails to recipients and wants to receive notification about the deliveries, bounces, complaints etc, for that I’d suggest you to check Amazon SNS notifications for SES. To know more about how to configure and what all the notifications consists of, Please have a look at the link shared below:  
> https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/DeveloperGuide/configure-sns-notifications.html#configure-feedback-notifications-console  
> https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/DeveloperGuide/notification-examples.html  
> https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/DeveloperGuide/notification-contents.html  
  
I hope that helps. If you have any further questions for me, please feel free to reach out.  
  
Thanks, and have a great day ahead!

Dummy SMTP using SES

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