Selective email forwarding from SES to Workmail with Lambda

Question

Hello folks,  
  
I am using AWS for several private purposes as well, including workmail. Unfortunately it lacks an important feature that helped me a lot in the past: catchall.  
When giving away my email address I have been using partner@domain1.com, where "partner" is the company, club or organisation. Once I start receiving SPAM or unwanted ads I could easily tell who was selling my address or had security issues.  
  
Now I need to become creative. My idea: I am using domain2.com as primary Workmail domain, with something@domain2.com as my primary email address.  
Then I want to use SES to trigger a Lambda function whenever an email arrives to any ******@domain1.com address and forward it to something@domain2.com.  
  
Would that be a good practice to go for?

Answer

Hi,  
  
Thank you for your interest in WorkMail and AWS. For the Catch all feature, I will plus 1 the ticket on your behalf. For the mail filtering on domains, you can assign multiple email aliases to you users. This will allow you to configure @domain2.com as primary email address and configure domain1.com as an alias. Both email addresses will deliver to your mailbox and you can create a mailbox rule to filter messages sent to the aliases.   
  
WorkMail also supports Mail flow rules with Lambda execution, while functionality is limited right now you can configure a lambda to trigger a CloudWatch alarm when a message to domain1.com is received.  More information can be found here: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/workmail/latest/adminguide/email-flows.html  
  
I hope these options cover your use case. If you have any more questions, feel free to ask here.  
  
Kind regards,  
Robin

Selective email forwarding from SES to Workmail with Lambda

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