Send emails via Amazon SES with Bash and cURL
Simple shell script to send emails via Amazon SES.
To work properly, adjust Bash environment variables TO, FROM, SUBJECT and MESSAGE.
Also AWS_SECRET_KEY and AWS_ACCESS_KEY environment variables have to be properly set.
#!/bin/bash
TO="Email To <to@example.com>"
FROM="Email From <from@example.com>"
SUBJECT="<YOUR SUBJECT HERE>"
MESSAGE="<YOUR MESSAGE HERE>"
date="$(date -R)"
priv_key="$AWS_SECRET_KEY"
access_key="$AWS_ACCESS_KEY"
signature="$(echo -n "$date" | openssl dgst -sha256 -hmac "$priv_key" -binary | base64 -w 0)"
auth_header="X-Amzn-Authorization: AWS3-HTTPS AWSAccessKeyId=$access_key, Algorithm=HmacSHA256, Signature=$signature"
endpoint="https://email.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/"
action="Action=SendEmail"
source="Source=$FROM"
to="Destination.ToAddresses.member.1=$TO"
subject="Message.Subject.Data=$SUBJECT"
message="Message.Body.Text.Data=$MESSAGE"
curl -v -X POST -H "Date: $date" -H "$auth_header" --data-urlencode "$message" --data-urlencode "$to" --data-urlencode "$source" --data-urlencode "$action" --data-urlencode "$subject" "$endpoint"Written by Bruno Coimbra
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Thanks. But I have error on Mac OS Lion,
date: illegal option -- R
usage: date [-jnu] [-d dst] [-r seconds] [-t west] [-v[+|-]val[ymwdHMS]] ...
[-f fmt date | [[[mm]dd]HH]MM[[cc]yy][.ss]] [+format]
base64: invalid option -- w
It'd be nice, but, on an Amazon EC2 server, running Linux the output is:
500 Error: command not implemented
500 Error: command not implemented
500 Error: command not implemented
500 Error: command not implemented
500 Error: command not implemented
500 Error: command not implemented
500 Error: command not implemented
500 Error: command not implemented
500 Error: bad syntax
This script worked wonderfully for me (running it under Ubuntu). Thanks for developing it and sharing!
@nvphong, macos version of date hasn't this option, but GNU date has. This option produces a date in rfc-2822 format. Any tool that produce dates in this format can be used to replace date -R.
Thanks Bruno for this. !! Works like a charm.
I was wondering how to send the html mail.
tried adding a "Content-Type: text/html" header, but I'm getting this error :
<AccessDeniedException>
<Message>Unable to determine service/operation name to be authorized</Message>
</AccessDeniedException>@kanadenipun, for HTML E-mails, I believe that you just need to send additional parameter with:
--data-urlencode "Message.Body.Html.Data=<your_html_message>"
On Mac, change date -R to date +"%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %Z" and base64 -w 0 to base64 -b 0
Thanks for the code. It worked before but now it doesn't work. Below is the error that i see when we use this code. Please help with the error.
< HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden
< x-amzn-RequestId: 47a43537-0409-11e7-b7f5-6bd59eed771b
< Content-Type: text/xml
< Content-Length: 430
< Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2017 14:12:35 GMT
<
<ErrorResponse xmlns="http://ses.amazonaws.com/doc/2010-12-01/">
<Error>
<Type>Sender</Type>
SignatureDoesNotMatch</Code>
<Message>The request signature we calculated does not match the signature you provided. Check your AWS Secret Access Key and signing method. Consult the service documentation for details.</Message>
</Error>
<RequestId>47a43537-0409-11e7-b7f5-6bd59eed771b</RequestId>
</ErrorResponse>
* Connection #0 to host email.us-east-1.amazonaws.com left intact
How to upgrade this to aws signature version 4 ??
