Test AMAZON SES Mailer region-wise openssl script

We use the Amazon SES basically to configure our commercial mailers for promotions and marketing.

Considering your Amazon SES is configured in 4 regions for the same mailer and you have gotten it out of sandbox mode, and if you want to test mailers from all these locations, how will you do ?

I created a solution for the same, i would like to share the script with procedure keeping it short and sweet. We need the following 2 scripts

• convercreds.sh

#!/bin/bash
echo -n "$1" | openssl enc -base64
echo -n "$2" | openssl enc -base64

• input.txt

EHLO mailer.<domain>.com 
AUTH LOGIN
<base64-key>
<base64-secret>
MAIL FROM: <user>@mailer.<domain>.com
RCPT TO: <any_of_you_email_id_to_test>@<mailer>.com
DATA
From: <User> Mailer <user@mailer.<domain>.com>
To: <any_of_you_email_id_to_test>@<mailer>.com
Subject: Amazon SES SMTP Test (<Region> Activated)

This message was sent using the Amazon SES SMTP interface (<Region>).
.
QUIT

• First run ./convercreds.sh <Amazon SES key> <Amazon SES Secret>
• Now you will get <base-64 – key> and <base64 – secret>, paste these values in input.txt
• Now replace all the ‘<>’ fields in the input.txt i have mentioned above with your values.
• Now run the following command

openssl s_client -crlf -quiet -starttls smtp -connect email-smtp.<region>.amazonaws.com:587 < input.txt

• Replace <region> every time you want to test any new region.
• Also ensure when ever you change the region, you also create a new base64 credentials out of key and secret for that region account.
• Try this out and let me know if any queries.

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