SES and Pinpoint query

Question

My customer is using SES’s SMTP capability to allow a solution to send emails. Hence the solution points to SES’s SMTP hostname, port and credentials. This works fine.

They are looking to add open/tracking to these emails via Pinpoint (ie writes open, bounce events to Kinesis), and they want to setup a Pinpoint project, and utilize an SMTP interface for that too.

Question is – can they re-use the existing IAM account that they have setup for SES, or do they need to create a new one in Pinpoint, ie go into Pinpoint -> select the project -> email -> Sending methods -> Generate SMTP credentials?

Thank you

Accepted Answer

Your customer can continue to use their existing endpoint and IAM user / SMTP credentials setup after setting up the rest of their Pinpoint settings. In fact, the Pinpoint `Generate SMTP credentials` button redirects to SES's SMTP credentials page, and if you create one IAM user / SMTP credential pair through both methods you'll notice that both have the same permissions attached to them

```
{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": "ses:SendRawEmail",
            "Resource": "*"
        }
    ]
}
```

As an aside, for adding open / click tracking for emails sent over SMTP, the customer needs to include an additional email header called `X-SES-CONFIGURATION-SET` with a value a configuration set for which open & click tracking are enabled. Code samples for this are available [here][1] .

[1]: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/pinpoint/latest/developerguide/send-messages-email-smtp.html

SES and Pinpoint query

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