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Mark Kenny
Mark Kenny

Reputation: 1648

Why isn't there an imap aws service?

I'm just looking into Amazons Web Services and I've used Elastic Beanstalk to set up a Ruby web app. It all works great but with one big exception. I cannot have user email accounts for the domain and cannot have incoming emails.

Is there a technical reason why this is the case (no incoming mail service), or am I missing something? I'm reading a lot about using Gmail or installing postfix manually, are these the only options, and if so why?

Upvotes: 6

Views: 7361

Answers (3)

Relighted
Relighted

Reputation: 1

You can use ses nowadays for inbound programmatic email, and read it from a sqs queue, this is advisable for higher then normal mailbox usage profiles.

Else soon you can use WorkMail's new imap service which was announced beta preview at 2016 re:invent.

Upvotes: 0

Erik Giberti
Erik Giberti

Reputation: 1235

Amazon offers this service now, it's called WorkMail: https://aws.amazon.com/workmail/

Upvotes: 4

E.J. Brennan
E.J. Brennan

Reputation: 46879

You can have user emails on the domain in one of two ways. If you want to keep it at aws, spinup an ec2 instance and run the mail server of your choice, or else just use a third party mail host/provider (like gmail, or rackspace email which I use) and just point your mx records to those external mail servers.

I also wish that AWS offered mail hosting (and domain registrations), but its not hard to just parcel out the small pieces of your solution.

Upvotes: 3

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