Simple Email Service

Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) is an SMTP server to send limited amounts of e-mails per day. At the time of writing this book, it is about 200 e-mails per day, which is more than enough. To set up SES, follow these steps:

1. On the console page, click on SES under App Services:

   

2. On the next page, click on SMTP Settings, and copy the server name and port number to a file as you will need them for the next step:

   

3. Click on the Create My SMTP Credentials button and wait until you are redirected to the IAM service (another Amazon service to manage credentials). Click on the Create button:

   

4. Copy and paste the username and password fields in the following page because you will need them for the next topic as well:

   

   Note

   The credentials provided here are fake. Don't use them. Use your custom ones. You don't think I'm going to expose my password to the world, do you?

Configuring Jenkins

Now that we have the mail server and Jenkins plugins in place, it is time to configure Jenkins itself...