Send an error message using a custom SMTP Handler from Python logging via Amazon SES.

custom_smtp_handler.py

from logging.handlers import SMTPHandler
from boto.ses.connection import SESConnection
from auth import AWS_ACCESS_KEY,AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY

class SESHandler(SMTPHandler):
	""" Send's an email using BOTO SES.
	"""
	def emit(self,record):
		conn = SESConnection(AWS_ACCESS_KEY,AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY)
		conn.send_email(self.fromaddr,self.subject,self.format(record),self.toaddrs)

if __name__ == "__main__":
	#Test
	import logging
	logger = logging.getLogger()
	mail_handler = SESHandler(mailhost="",fromaddr='<yourserveremail eg: no-reply-server@..>',toaddrs="<youremail>", subject='Production Error')
	mail_handler.setLevel(logging.ERROR)
	logger.addHandler(mail_handler)
	try:
		1/0 #Love me a divide by zero.
	except:
		logger.exception("FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU")

how do you customize the body of the email sent out with this handler?

Many thanks for this!

Thanks! Also, the original version (without the updated API call from @devjoe) worked for me.