lambda_node_ses_email_forwarder_sendrawemail

• The goal for this project is to provide a backend for sending out e-mails (with an attachment) using Amazon SES, running on AWS Lambda + Node.JS
• This code only supports 50 recipients, a recipient is any to/cc/bcc address.
• If you do not need attachments checkout this version instead - lambda sendemail ses

Useage

Input event data

• to / cc / bcc - You must use atleast one of these
• subject - The subject line
• html - The html version of the email body
• text - The text version of the email body
• from - Your verified sender address
• attachments - supports multiple in mailcomposer format

{
  "to": [
    "[email protected]",
    "[email protected]"
  ],
  "bcc": [
    "[email protected]",
    "[email protected]"
  ],
  "cc": [
    "[email protected]",
    "[email protected]"
  ],
  "subject": "λ SES Node Test λλλ",
  "html": "<br><h1>Hello world!!!!!</h1> - from lambda",
  "text": "Hello world!!!!! - from lambda",
  "from": "YOUR_VERIFIED_SENDER_ADDRESS",
  "attachments": [
    {
      "filename": "test.jpg",
      "path": "http://www.example.com/sample.jpg"
    }
  ]
}

Installation & Setup

1. Save the code to your computer, and extract it to a new folder
2. Initialize the node directory - install mailcomposer - npm install mailcomposer
3. Compress the index.js and node_modules folder into a zip file.
4. Create a new lambda function using Node.js runtime, upload the zip file as the source code, and create a new IAM access role with the following policy

{  
   "Version":"2012-10-17",
   "Statement":[  
      {  
         "Effect":"Allow",
         "Action":[  
            "logs:CreateLogGroup",
            "logs:CreateLogStream",
            "logs:PutLogEvents"
         ],
         "Resource":"arn:aws:logs:*:*:*"
      },
      {  
         "Effect":"Allow",
         "Action":[  
            "ses:SendRawEmail"
         ],
         "Resource":"*"
      }
   ]
}

Credits

• Amazon AWS SDK for JavaScrtipt in Node.js
• mailcomposer - https://github.com/nodemailer/mailcomposer