Amazon SES Email Transport

Aws.AmazonSesApi sends email with the SendEmail operation of the Amazon SES API v2. Set it as the transport of an email profile in config/email.php (legacy layout: app/Config/email.php):

class EmailConfig
{
    /**
     * Default email profile values.
     *
     * @var array
     */
    public $default = [
        'transport' => 'Aws.AmazonSesApi',
        'from' => 'example@example.com',
        'charset' => 'utf-8',
        'headerCharset' => 'utf-8',
    ];
}

The SES client is created with the Aws configuration. These keys of the email profile override it:

Key	Description
region	AWS region of SES.
version	API version.
key, secret	Access key ID and secret access key. When they are not set, the credentials of the Aws configuration or the default credential provider chain are used.

The transport sends the text and HTML parts, the To, Cc, Bcc and Reply-To addresses, and the attachments. CakeEmail::send() returns the SES message ID as id:

App::uses('CakeEmail', 'Network/Email');

$email = new CakeEmail('default');
$result = $email->to('user@example.com')
    ->subject('Welcome')
    ->send('Hello!');

$messageId = $result['id'];

The sender address (from) must be verified in SES.