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Amandeep kaur
Amandeep kaur

Reputation: 1025

Pass link tags in links using Aws SES api

I am using AWS SES api to send emails. I have used configuration set for email tracking in which the destination type is blank; I am using SES default domain and I have selected click event. Now I want to track all links but perform action to some particular links.

To do this I tried adding ses:tags attribute all tags as described in the documentation here: sending metrics link

<a ses:tags="product:book;genre:fiction;subgenre:scifi;type:newrelease;" href="http://www.amazon.com/…/">New Releases in Science Fiction</a>

But these tags neither show up in the link nor in the click event data sent by aws.

UPDATED

Click event data:

"click" : {
        "ipAddress" : "1.1.1.1",
        "userAgent" : "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:85.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/85.0",
        "link" : "http://www.facebook.com",
        "linkTags" : "",
        "timestamp" : "2021-02-11T03:32:54.848Z"
    }

NOTE: I am not using Cloudwatch as event destination in configuration set.

Can someone guide me what am I doing wrong here?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2348

Answers (1)

samtoddler
samtoddler

Reputation: 9625

It's only possible to track clicks in HTML emails.

How can I monitor the opens, clicks, and bounces from emails that I send using Amazon SES?

Sending email using the Amazon SES SMTP Interface

I used configset to send the events to SNS topic and subscribed my lambda to SNS topic, below are the results:

package main

import (
    "fmt"

    "gopkg.in/gomail.v2" //go get gopkg.in/gomail.v2
)

const (
    Sender     = "[email protected]"
    SenderName = "senders name"
    Recipient  = "[email protected]"
    SmtpUser   = "username"
    SmtpPass   = "password"
    ConfigSet  = "Engagement"
    Host       = "email-smtp.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com"
    Port       = 587
    Subject    = "Amazon SES Test (Gomail)"
    HtmlBody   = "<html><head><title>SES Sample Email</title></head><body>" +
        "<h1>Amazon SES Test Email (Gomail)</h1>" +
        "<p>This email was sent with " +
        "<a ses:tags='product:book;genre:fiction;subgenre:scifi;type:newrelease;'href='https://aws.amazon.com/ses/'>Amazon SES</a> using " +
        "the <a ses:tags='product:email;genre:test;subgenre:custom;type:gomail;'href='https://github.com/go-gomail/gomail/'>Gomail " +
        "package</a> for <a href='https://golang.org/'>Go</a>.</p>" +
        "</body></html>"

    TextBody = "This email was sent with Amazon SES using the Gomail package."
    Tags     = "genre=test,genre2=test2"
    CharSet  = "UTF-8"
)

func main() {

    m := gomail.NewMessage()
    m.SetBody("text/html", HtmlBody)
    m.AddAlternative("text/plain", TextBody)
    m.SetHeaders(map[string][]string{
        "From":                    {m.FormatAddress(Sender, SenderName)},
        "To":                      {Recipient},
        "Subject":                 {Subject},
        "X-SES-CONFIGURATION-SET": {ConfigSet},
        "X-SES-MESSAGE-TAGS":      {Tags},
    })

    d := gomail.NewPlainDialer(Host, Port, SmtpUser, SmtpPass)
    if err := d.DialAndSend(m); err != nil {
        fmt.Println(err)
    } else {
        fmt.Println("Email sent!")
    }
}

click event:

In [29]: click_event['click']
Out[29]:
{'timestamp': '2021-02-26T10:44:00.606Z',
 'ipAddress': 'xx.xx.xx.xx',
 'userAgent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_6) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/14.0.3 Safari/605.1.15',
 'link': 'https://aws.amazon.com/ses/',
 'linkTags': {'product': ['book'],
  'subgenre': ['scifi'],
  'genre': ['fiction'],
  'type': ['newrelease']}}

..

In [38]: click_event['mail']['tags']
Out[38]:
{'ses:operation': ['SendSmtpEmail'],
 'ses:configuration-set': ['Engagement'],
 'ses:source-ip': ['xx.xx.xx.xx'],
 'ses:from-domain': ['example.com'],
 'genre': ['test'],
 'genre2': ['test2'],
 'ses:caller-identity': ['ses-smtp-user']}

open_event

In [41]: open_event1['mail']['tags']
Out[41]:
{'ses:operation': ['SendSmtpEmail'],
 'ses:configuration-set': ['Engagement'],
 'ses:source-ip': ['xx.xx.xx.xx'],
 'ses:from-domain': ['example.com'],
 'genre': ['test'],
 'genre2': ['test2'],
 'ses:caller-identity': ['ses-smtp-user']}

Received email:

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Upvotes: 0

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