Okay, friends. So as I explained before, in the email marketing system or the email sending system, we have mainly two ports, the email application or the management application. And we have the SMTP service, which is Amazon ICS in our case. So now when do you want to connect the email application to Amazon CS, we have mainly two methods, we can use a CS API, or we can use the SMTP. So in this video In this lecture, let's see how we can send a test email using Amazon ACS by connecting through smtp. So the first thing you need to do is to get the SMTP connection parameters like the hostname, the port number, the user and the password, how to do this very simple.
Just go here to SMTP settings. And you can see we have the server name. Let's Open Notepad. So let's firstly copy the server name, I will copy it and paste here is the server and the port number can be one of these three. Okay, just copy it. And you're going to use TLS encryption very simple.
Now we also the user and the password. How to get this simply go here and create SMTP credentials, click on this button here. So we'll move now to Rm a or identity access management console. Okay. Click now on created and then click on show user SMTP credentials and here's the username copier sorry Here's the user and get this password and paste here. Now let's save this file so we can use it later in the course.
I will say Amazon SMTP credentials on my desktop safe. Very nice. So now we have the SMTP credentials and the hostname and the port. Let's test our system, I will go to a website called s m deeper.net. This website allows you to test your SMTP service. I talked about this website a lot when we configured our own SMTP server and my other courses.
If you're interested you can check now simply, I will copy this hostname here. Enter the SMTP host I will be using Port 465. I will be using this user for login here and this password Here, very simple, I think I will use a secure authentication or connection because it's required by Amazon and click on user authentication. I will say email from simply say anything, mail advocate.net an email to, you need to write a verified address here, not any address, because I verified it before inside Amazon. Now I can use this email, just to remind you is the email address is verified. And here is my gmail account.
So you can use it here to send an email, just resolve the capture for the six. Okay, send the test and very nice mail successfully sent. Let's go back to my gmail account. And you can see I have a new email from Maine educate dotnet so everything is awesome. And Amazon sts is working perfectly inside sandbox mode. Alright, that's it using SMTP connection and everything else.
Awesome. So now if you are using any mailing application like mail Wiz and blaster mega whatever you are using, you can simply use this SMTP parameters to connect to our ICS and start sending emails. I think the idea is super simple.