I'm setting up Splunk to send e-mails through Amazon SES. But before doing this, I found a Python script (Splunk uses Python to send the mails) that I wanted to test which is not working on my Linux server. The output is shown below. I'm able to send test e-mails on the command line using Sendmail – so there is nothing wrong my Amazon SES credentials. Somehow Python doesn't parse the Auth info correctly?
Output
[root@HOSTNAME ~]# python ses.py
Message length is 47
send: 'ehlo HOSTNAME\r\n'
reply: '250-email-smtp.amazonaws.com\r\n'
reply: '250-8BITMIME\r\n'
reply: '250-SIZE 10485760\r\n'
reply: '250-STARTTLS\r\n'
reply: '250-AUTH PLAIN LOGIN\r\n'
reply: '250 Ok\r\n'
reply: retcode (250); Msg: email-smtp.amazonaws.com
8BITMIME
SIZE 10485760
STARTTLS
AUTH PLAIN LOGIN
Ok
send: 'STARTTLS\r\n'
reply: '220 Ready to start TLS\r\n'
reply: retcode (220); Msg: Ready to start TLS
send: 'ehlo HOSTNAME\r\n'
reply: '250-email-smtp.amazonaws.com\r\n'
reply: '250-8BITMIME\r\n'
reply: '250-SIZE 10485760\r\n'
reply: '250-STARTTLS\r\n'
reply: '250-AUTH PLAIN LOGIN\r\n'
reply: '250 Ok\r\n'
reply: retcode (250); Msg: email-smtp.amazonaws.com
8BITMIME
SIZE 10485760
STARTTLS
AUTH PLAIN LOGIN
Ok
send: 'AUTH PLAIN ASOIJFAIUSHDFIGASDALIUSFDILUAI2FIUWHIVHSLIHDVUISHDLVIUSLIDUVKSUHDLKVSUHD=\r\n'
reply: '535 Authentication Credentials Invalid\r\n'
reply: retcode (535); Msg: Authentication Credentials Invalid
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "ses.py", line 31, in <module>
server.login(smtp_username, smtp_password)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/smtplib.py", line 589, in login
raise SMTPAuthenticationError(code, resp)
smtplib.SMTPAuthenticationError: (535, 'Authentication Credentials Invalid')
This is the script I'm using to test which I got online.
#!/usr/bin/python
import smtplib
def prompt(prompt):
return raw_input(prompt).strip()
fromaddr = 'user@somehost'
toaddrs = 'touser@some.com'
msg = """From: USER@DOMAIN.COM
Hello, this is dog.
"""
print "Message length is " + repr(len(msg))
#Change according to your settings
smtp_server = 'email-smtp.us-east-1.amazonaws.com'
smtp_username = '[redacted]'
smtp_password = '[redacted]'
smtp_port = '587'
smtp_do_tls = True
server = smtplib.SMTP(
host = smtp_server,
port = smtp_port,
timeout = 10
)
server.set_debuglevel(10)
server.starttls()
server.ehlo()
server.login(smtp_username, smtp_password)
server.sendmail(fromaddr, toaddrs, msg)
print server.quit()
Best Answer
Perhaps not the answer you're looking for, but I'm using the Python boto library to handle AWS-related stuff: