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Setup nullmailer with Amazon SES
Integrating nullmailer with Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)
Sometime you need just to allow system tools (i.e. cron) to send mail to the hostmaster. Setting up (and maintaining) a smtp server like sendmail, Postfix or Exim is too much. What you need is nullmailer, a sendmail/qmail/etc replacement MTA for hosts which relay to a fixed set of smart relays.
Here are some notes about how to setup nullmailer to use Amazon SES (Simple Email Service). This guide applies to Ubuntu boxes, but you can easily adapt it to other Linux flavors.
I assume that you already know how to setup an Amazon Simple Email Service account and how to test it in the sandbox . This means that you have signed the service, verified and tested at least a couple of e-mail address using Amazon Management Console facility. If this is not your case, please refer to this guide.
To begin, you will need to set up a secure tunnel using stunnel package. In the following procedure, we use port 2525 as your stunnel port. If you are using a differe