Using AWS SES and existing EC2 14.04 VM

Help with Setup/Upgrade
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Just need a bit of advice before deciding whether to try mailinabox.

First I have a 14.04 box running on EC2 with a LAMP stack and a few lightly visited websites. Once every few months I do a mass email of about 2K emails. The server is running on a t2 micro install and is plenty enough for this load.

Our email demand is very light too. A handful of forwards, a couple actual accounts, and not much traffic (a handful of emails total a day (excluding spam). Although all inbound end up at a gmail client we do use gmail to forward to our outbound mail server to maintain the reply from address using our domain.

Since I am already paying for this VM 24/7 do you think I can load mailinabox without issue?

Second. I already have AWS SES set up for outbound mail for our mass mail program. I wonder if it would be better to use SES for outbound mail in terms of not getting blacklisted as opposed to direct from my VM/mailinabox? If you’d recommend that then in a nutshell what changes need to be made to mailinabox to use SES for outbound (secure smtp)

Thx

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No. It will destroy your LAMP stack and potentially eat your files. As the website says in many places, it must be installed on a machine dedicated to it.

If you’d recommend that then in a nutshell what changes need to be made to mailinabox to use SES for outbound (secure smtp)

This isn’t something I currently support. Others may have advice (but this thread will move into the Unsupported Modifications category then).

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