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0 pointsthenickdude4y ago0 comments

SES for outgoing works pretty nicely, I don't think I ran into any gotchas.

You can use SES for inbound email receipt as well, but unfortunately there's no POP3/IMAP service (emails just get stored in an S3 bucket). However you can use a Lambda to forward inbound email to a personal email account: https://github.com/arithmetric/aws-lambda-ses-forwarder

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boronine4y ago· 1 in thread

Thanks! Your solution may be best for usability. Researching further I found another solution that is perhaps best for privacy: https://github.com/markushinz/aws-ses-pop3-server

SES -> S3 -> aws-ses-pop3-server -> desktop client with POP3 and SMTP

Using this option, email is only really usable from a single device, but it avoids sharing private emails with yet another cloud, especially a free cloud that would share email with advertisers.

boronine4y ago

EDIT: Wanting a minimal implementation, I instead made a script:

1. List email files in S3

2. For each file, download into a local maildir-style directory, then delete original

3. Use `mutt -f ./maildir` to browse

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