send-email-lambda

Simple email sender running on Lambda. It sends emails via AWS SES. It comes in handy when you would add a contact form to your static website.

Prerequisites

• Apex - http://apex.run/
• An email address verified with AWS SES

Prepare

Init your project

git clone [email protected]:craftzdog/send-email-lambda.git
cd send-email-lambda
apex init
> Project nane: send-email

Edit your project.json file based on project.json.example like:

{
  "name": "send-email",
  "description": "Simple email transmitter",
  "memory": 128,
  "timeout": 5,
  "environment": {},
  "runtime": "nodejs6.10",
  "role": "<YOUR_IAM_ROLE>"
}

Configure

Edit functions/submit/function.json as you like:

{
  "environment": {
    "SES_REGION": "us-west-2",
    "FROM_NAME": "Craftzdog Contact Form",
    "FROM_EMAIL": "<YOUR_AUTOMATED_EMAIL_SENDER>",
    "TO_EMAIL": "<EMAIL_TO_RECEIVE>"
  }
}

• SES_REGION: The AWS region for the SES
• FROM_NAME: Sender name like "Contact Form"
• FROM_EMAIL: The email address you would receive from. e.g., [email protected]
• TO_EMAIL: Your personal email address to receive emails.

Add a permission to send emails to the IAM role

Add following policy to your lambda's IAM role (ex. send-email_lambda_function) that allows the lambda function to use SES.sendEmail with policy name send-email_submit:

{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Sid": "Stmt1504526549000",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "ses:SendEmail"
            ],
            "Resource": [
                "*"
            ]
        }
    ]
}

Deploy and test sending emails

At the project top directory:

apex deploy

You can run the lambda function manually with below command:

echo -n '{ "subject": "hello", "body": "world" }' | apex invoke submit

And you will get an email to the configured address.

Publish on the Web

API Gateway

Configure your API Gateway like this:

And deploy the API.

Swagger definitions

See the swagger YAML file as an example.

API

POST <YOUR_API_ENTRYPOINT>/submit

It accepts JSON data with 2 fields:

• subject: The message subject
• body: The message body

License

MIT, Copyright 2017 by Takuya Matsuyama [email protected]