Simple Email Service (SES) Sample Application

I could not find a simple example to send email using SES in python. Turns out it is really easy. If you have a MIME formatted message you can simply call send_raw_message .

client = boto3.client("ses") client.send_raw_email(RawMessage = {'Data': mime_formatted_message})

Of course the tricky part is the MIME formatting. Turns out that is really easy in Python. Here is a simple example.

message = MIMEText("Testing 123\nTesting 123\nTesting 123") message['From'] = "sender@domain.com" message['To'] = ["recipient1@domain.com", "recipient2@domain.com"] message['Date'] = formatdate(localtime=True) message['Subject'] = "Testing"

Then you can simply call as_string() and pass it to SES.

client = boto3.client("ses") response = client.send_raw_email(RawMessage = {'Data': message.as_string()})

I messed around for a little while and created a few helper functions to handle HTML formatting and attachments. You can find the complete code in GitHub . I hope that helps someone.