Configurable region.

[gcphost]

Hi

I was wanting to use your project with AWS Lambda but my Lambda is located in a region where SES is not available. Lambda sets the regions env var automatically.

Since SES is available in only 3 regions do you think it would be better to make the region value configurable outside of the env? https://github.com/dwyl/sendemail/blob/master/lib/index.js#L10

Thank you.

[nelsonic]

@gcphost the region is configurable precisely because of that line: https://github.com/dwyl/sendemail/blob/b35dbe219087b8b6468cb1cd4cd82372ba97197a/lib/index.js#L10 If you want to define your SES Region to be different from the Lambda simply set process.env.AWS_REGION before you require('sendemail') e.g your Lambda is running in California us-west-1 but you can only send email from Oregon us-west-2 ...

process.env.AWS_REGION = 'us-west-2'; // set AWS_REGION for sending Emails via SES
var sendemail = require('sendemail');
var email = sendemail.email;

var person = {
  name : "Jenny",
  email: "your.name+test" + Math.random() + "@gmail.com", // person.email can also accept an array of emails
  subject:"Welcome to DWYL :)"
}

email('welcome', person, function(error, result){
  console.log(' - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -> email sent: ');
  console.log(result);
  console.log(' - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -')
})

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/DeveloperGuide/regions.html

Let us know how you get on with that approach.

[gcphost]

Hi

Thank you.

Since I use other AWS services on Lambda I want to keep the default AWS_REGION and not adjust it. Using your method I need to change the region back to the default after loading sendemail, meaning some extra lines of code.

I ended up modifying it to accept another parameter first:

AWS.config.region = process.env.AWS_EMAIL_REGION || process.env.AWS_REGION;

Now I can use a different region without having to adjust any of my code.

Thanks for the quick reply and your package.

[nelsonic]

@gcphost sounds good. 👍

[nelsonic]

Closing as question answered. ✅