Configure Sub-Domain in AWS SES to Receive Mails

This article talks about configuring subdomain with Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES), to avoid any inconsistency with data.

Inconsistency Observation:

When multiple email addresses are configured in SES active rule, some of the mails/data left undelivered to SES.

Step 1: SES – Verifying the Domain

1. Login to your AWS account and navigate to the SES service of AWS. Select Verify a New Domain
   
   
2. Note: We have chosen Northern Virginia (us-east-1) as the AWS region2. Once you have clicked on the Verify a New Domain, you will get a dialog box for configuring your Domain.
   • Configure Domain as mail-datasync.company.co
   • Enable the Generate DKIM settings
   • And completed the step by clicking on Verify This Domain
     
     
3. It will give you a list of the record sets to complete the verification process.
   

Step 2: Route 53 – Creating a record set for completing the domain verification

1. Go to Route 53 service of AWS. Choose the domain co under Hosted Zones
   
   
2. Click on Create Record Set and add all the recordset which we received from SES in Step1 point 3.
   
3. Once all the record sets are added in Route 53, you will able to see Domain as verified in SES.
   

Note: It may take some time to verify

Step 3: S3 – Creating a bucket for storing all the received mails

1. Go to the S3 service of AWS. Create a bucket with name misdata.ses in the US-East-1 region
   
2. Add bucket policy in S3 to allow SES to put objects in the bucket
   { "Version": "2012-10-17", "Statement": [ { "Sid": "AllowSESPuts-1585263", "Effect": "Allow", "Principal": { "Service": "ses.amazonaws.com" }, "Action": "s3:PutObject", "Resource": [ "arn:aws:s3:::company.misdata.ses/*", "arn:aws:s3:::company.misdata.ses" ], "Condition": { "StringEquals": { "aws:Referer": "<account_id>" } } } ] }

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   {     "Version": "2012-10-17",     "Statement": [         {             "Sid": "AllowSESPuts-1585263",             "Effect": "Allow",             "Principal": {                 "Service": "ses.amazonaws.com"             },             "Action": "s3:PutObject",             "Resource": [                 "arn:aws:s3:::company.misdata.ses/*",                 "arn:aws:s3:::company.misdata.ses"             ],             "Condition": {                 "StringEquals": {                     "aws:Referer": "<account_id>"                 }             }         }     ] }

Step 4: SES – Creating a rule set in SES to process the mails

1. Go to the SES service of AWS. Click on the Rule Sets section of SES
   
2. Click on create a rule set with name data-sync-project.
   
   
3. Once the rule-set has been created, click on the rule set data-sync-project. Select Create Rule.
   
   
4. Add Recipient as mail-datasync.company.co. and click on Add Recipient and then click on Next Step
   
   
5. Add actions as an S3 bucket, which created in the previous step. And add object or path of the bucket where data need to be stored and then click on Next Step
   
   
6. Provide a rule name as company.misdata and click on Next Step
   
   
7. Review the details and create the rule.
8. And make the Rule-Set data-sync-project as active

Step 5: S3 – Received mails in S3

As soon as you make Rule-set as active you will start receiving the mails in S3

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