I am suppose to move attachment from Gmail directly to cloud storage, Is this possible?
I think you can contact to Gsuite support [1].
[1]https://support.google.com/a/answer/1047213?hl=en#
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I am trying to use google analytics to find which email address opened my email. But it looks, google analytics don't have that option.
Do we have any other alternatives?
You certainly can't do that in Google Analytics - it's against their terms of service to collect that sort of personal data. The email client that you use - e.g mailchimp, dotmailer etc may have it.
I have a website hosted on S3 on amazon web services. I want to receive emails on my gmail account from the visitors of my website if they wish to contact me. I'm confused with the steps for the setup as I tried working around with SES on amazon web service but am completely off tracK I believe.
Thanks.
S3 doesn't support any server-side code, such as PHP - so you can't use server-side logic to send an email.
There are two options:
Implement a mailto: link that will cause the user to open their mail client when then click on it.
Use a third-party mail service that supports a REST API, and implement that in Javascript. You can use something like SES, Sendgrid or Mailgun.
Each of these services can be called using Javascript. Implement your mail form page to make an API call to these services to deliver the comment to your inbox.
You can use AWS Lambda with Amazon API Gateway to create a serverless backend and use Amazon Simple Email Service to send an e-mail. A good tutorial below:
Create Dynamic Contact Forms for S3 Static Websites Using AWS Lambda, Amazon API Gateway, and Amazon SES
Late to the party, but as others have said you can setup a AWS Lambda function at an API Gateway to use AWS SES to send an email. You post your html form to it (or some other service you create on an actual server you control) and send an email via some Gmail SDK/API There's quite a few tutorials for this online.
You can also use a free third-party service like Formspree to create an html form that posts to their servers and they will send you an email to wherever you specify.
I need to:
Create a custom email address for a specific directory within S3 bucket
Store all mail sent to the address, including any attachments, as a flat file in that bucket
Does AWS provide any capability like this? If not, is there any way to do it without standing up a new mail server?
Update
I've found a few SaaS tools that provide similar functionality:
SMTP Logic provides an email gateway that can, among other things, route attachments or archive copies of mail to S3.
cloudmailin offers attachment storage on S3 as a supplement to their primary email-to-webapp function.
If you use Google Apps and have the ability to push Atom feeds to S3, you can use the Gmail inbox feed. This might work for my specific case, but is not a very good general solution.
You might want to have a look at Receiving emails with Amazon SES receiving email S3 action.
EDIT: see other answer about SES.
AWS doesn't have a service like that. But you can easily write a service and run it on a Micro for less than 20 dollars a month.
You could use a regular mail server, or a highly programmable one like Lamson.
So we are planning to use AWS SES for sending emails. But how do we set up the email receivers? And how do we create an email accounts? When activating AWS SES, it asks to verify an email account (eg. help#example.org)...
I tried to create a mail server on one of the instances using postfix following this article: http://flurdy.com/docs/postfix/, but it's not easy at all... Does anybody know any better alternatives?
Thanks.
SES is for sending email only. As you note, you must have some other way set up to receive email at least at the "From" address you intend to use, because Amazon will verify it before letting you send.
While you certainly could set up an email server and domain on an EC2 instance, it's very complicated. I recommend that you get an email service for just that purpose. If you only need a single address for all your messages, just get a free address from Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, etc.
If you need multiple addresses, consider getting Google Apps for Business, either for an existing or new domain name (it's easiest to set up if you have it register a new domain name for you). It's no longer free, but it's still quite cheap. A single user account can receive emails for every address in the domain, it's flexible, and it's reliable. It's a good companion to using SES for sending automated emails.
Use Amazon WorkMail if you prefer AWS. Gmail for work, Office 365, Hostgator, are some other examples. FYI, none of these providers simply provide domain emails. They come bundled with many other things such as chat clients, calenders, etc. Pricing of these services depends on what other things they are bundled with.
$4/user/month for AWS
$5/user/month for Google
$5/user/month for Microsoft
Since you are in AWS cloud, I will tell you a few things about Amazon WorkMail.
You get your own domain and 50GB of storage per user.
You get calendars for free.
You cannot use just any desktop mail client. You have to either use Outlook, or Mac's mail client, or the web interface. This is their weakest point. However, including other IMAP clients is in their roadmap (I guess atleast a year).
Integrates nicely with SES.
Important links:
FAQ page.
Features page.
There are many more features such as remotely removing emails from a device, managing your users, and so on.
What I can recommend you is to use Amazon WorkMail because they almost provide all the features supported by others, and you are tied with AWS anyway. AWS also recently launched Workspace and Workdocs (both separately billed) that will allow you to create a complete work solution. These services also combine nicely with IAM.
I have a web application that provides an email box for each of our customers. Once we acquire a new customer, we automatically create a mailbox for him. Currently we use Rackspace for that, and it has served us well. I like their REST API.
However, we have to stop using Rackspace since it stores the emails in the US. We have legal constraints that force us to store the emails within the EU.
What alternative for Rackspace would you suggest? The requirements are: a good API and location within EU.
Amazon SES. Has servers located in the EU.
You can also look here