Amazon ses with smtp credentials

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Im using amazon ses as my email provider in strapi and i have a smtp username and password how should i put them in the provider options? i couldn’t find any docs for it

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Are you trying to use an email provider?
I personally use the NodeMailer provider and then use @aws-sdk/client-ses to allow my instance to pick up the credentials from the instance itself.
This is my config for email:

import * as aws from "@aws-sdk/client-ses";

const ses = new aws.SES({
  region: process.env.AWS_REGION,
});

export default ({ env }) => ({
  email: {
    config: {
      provider: env('EMAIL_PROVIDER'),
      providerOptions: {
        SES: { ses, aws },
      },
      settings: {
        defaultFrom: env('EMAIL_ADDRESS_FROM'),
        defaultReplyTo: env('EMAIL_ADDRESS_REPLY_TO'),
      },
    },
  },
});

Of course I’m running my Strapi instances on ECS Fargate so I can pass in the task role with the SES permissions.

There is an alternative: @strapi/provider-email-amazon-ses - npm

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This article might help - Top External Email Providers for Your Strapi Application