About this plugin
Daninger’s SMTP for Amazon SES reconfigures the WordPress wp_mail() function to deliver email through Amazon SES using your SES SMTP credentials. It hooks into phpmailer_init and points PHPMailer at the Amazon SES SMTP endpoint for your region.
This plugin does one thing only. There are no other mailer integrations, no onboarding wizards, no usage tracking, no email logging, and no upsells.
Daninger’s SMTP for Amazon SES is an independent project and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Amazon Web Services. com, Inc. or its affiliates.
Features
- Send WordPress email via Amazon SES SMTP
- Simple settings page (enable, region, host, port, encryption, username, password, from email/name, force-from)
- Region helper that auto-fills the correct SES SMTP host
- Secure defaults: port 587, TLS encryption
- Built-in test email form
- Force-from option to override the From address set by other plugins
- SMTP password is stored but never displayed back in the admin
What it does NOT do
- It does not use the AWS SDK or the SES API — it uses plain SMTP only.
- It does not include any other email providers (Gmail, Outlook, Mailgun, SendGrid, Brevo, etc.).
External services
This plugin sends your site’s outgoing email through Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES), a third-party email delivery service operated by Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS). You must supply your own Amazon SES account and SMTP credentials; the plugin does not create an account for you and does not connect to any service operated by the plugin author.
g. com ) and transmits that email — including the recipient address, subject, body, headers, and any attachments — to Amazon SES for delivery. Your SMTP username and password are sent to Amazon SES to authenticate the connection.
No email or data is sent to Amazon SES unless WordPress itself triggers an email.
The plugin does not collect analytics and does not contact any other external service.
:
- Service information: https://aws.amazon.com/ses/
- AWS Service Terms: https://aws.amazon.com/service-terms/
- AWS Privacy Notice: https://aws.amazon.com/privacy/
Configuration
- SES Region — must match the region where your SES account is verified.
- SMTP Host — e.g. email-smtp.us-east-1.amazonaws.com, email-smtp.us-west-2.amazonaws.com, email-smtp.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com.
- Port — 587 or 25 for STARTTLS/TLS, 465 or 2465 for SSL.
- Encryption — TLS (recommended), SSL, or None.
- From Email — must be a verified SES identity.