I used an Ubuntu LAMP 64-bit stack and installed Joomla 2.5.8 manually in /opt/bitnami/apache2/htdocs. I have my Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) set up, the IAM SMTP credentials obtained, and the domain and senders verified according to SES instructions. (I am still waiting on DKIM).
Here are my SMTP settings from the configuration file:
public $mailer = 'smtp';
public $mailfrom = 'me@myemailaddress.com';
public $fromname = 'My Company Name';
public $sendmail = '/usr/sbin/sendmail';
public $smtpauth = '1';
public $smtpuser = 'AwsIAMSMTPAccessKeyID';
public $smtppass = 'AwsIAMSMTPSecretAccessKey';
public $smtphost = 'email-smtp.us-east-1.amazonaws.com ';
public $smtpsecure = 'tls';
public $smtpport = '587';
I can send a test email from the AWS console, but when I try to use Acymailing on Joomla, this is the error I get:
Error Sending Message This is a test from Acymailing to me@myeamiladdress.com | SMTP Error: Could not connect to SMTP host. | SMTP -> ERROR: STARTTLS not accepted from server: 454 4.3.3 TLS not available after start
Since I did NOT use the Joomla stack for my installation, I am thinking that there are probably some SMTP or port settings that I am missing which didn't get set because of my methodology. Can anyone tell me what my Ubuntu 64-bit installation needs to let this email get off the EC2 instance and over to Simple Email Service?
Toolie