SAS with Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)

[vivinkumar]

Dear,

I am trying to configure Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)  with SAS 9.4 to send email notifications and reports from SAS.

I have configured AWS SES but trying to find any sample code or SAS connect to configure in SAS.

Tried the following code but I am getting only the authentication error.

/*sample code*/
options emailsys=smtp;
options emailport=25;
options emailhost="email-smtp.amazon.com";
options emailid="test@domain.com";
options emailpw="******";

FILENAME Mailbox EMAIL 'test@domain.com'
Subject='Test Mail message';
DATA _NULL_;
FILE Mailbox;
PUT "Hello";
PUT "This is a Test email";
RUN;

ERROR: Email: 530 Authentication required

Thanks!

[Anand_V]

Hi @vivinkumar 

Check this KB link on Troubleshooting guidelines for successfully sending an SMTP e-mail from SAS® software . It is to check if SMTP email is working successfully outside of SAS first.

[vivinkumar]

Thanks Anand.
When I try the telnet command I am getting the following response. Do I need to setup additional configuration for SMTP?

220 email-smtp.amazonaws.com ESMTP SimpleEmailService-****** ###########
451 4.4.2 Timeout waiting for data from client.

Connection to host lost.

[Anand_V]

I am not sure if any config is required for SMTP, but here is a guide from AWS on troubleshooting timeout issues.

https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/smtp-connectivity-timeout-issues-ses/

[vivinkumar]

Thanks Anand.
I have retested the telnet command with additional parameters and I am getting the following authentication error.

220 email-smtp.amazonaws.com ESMTP SimpleEmailService-d-****** #######
helo domain.com
250 email-smtp.amazonaws.com
mail from: mail@domain.com
530 Authentication required

Still I am not clear what authentication and how to provide it.

Thanks
Vivin

[vivinkumar · Accepted solution]

I have referred this document - https://support.sas.com/kb/53/215.html

After applying this sample I can able to send email via AWS Simple Email Service (SES).

Sample Code:

options emailsys=smtp;
options emailhost=("email-smtp.amazonaws.com" STARTTLS auth=LOGIN id="SES-SMTP-USER_NAME" pw="SES-SMTP-PASSWORD" port=25);

filename outbox email from="email-congifured-in-ses@domain.com" ;
data _null_;
file outbox
to=("to@domain.com")
subject="My SAS Output"
;
put 'It worked great!';
run;