4 FAQ

A) Because it is not under massive development anymore, because it depends on quartz plugin, and because I found some itchy bugs on it that really annoys me on my other project using it.

Q) Why you don’t submit a patch to it?

A) Because it is not under massive development anymore (again), and because the idea on this grails-aws plugin, as I said before, is to offer an easier way to use AWS service, and not only S3.

Q) I have some aws code that I'm using here, can I attach it on this plugin and send a pull request?

A) For sure, I'd be thankful if you are willing to do so, but remember the main reason we're developing this plugin, to provide EASY access to AWS functionalities.

Q) Can I use this plugin to send e-mails using my current SMTP infrastructure?

A) Unfortunately, SES does not provide a simple SMTP server address to connect and use, otherwise we could just configure the Grails Mail Plugin to use it. Instead of this, AWS provides a http web service for it.

Q) Can I use the Grails Mail plugin to connect to Amazon SES Email service?

A) As described above, SES does not offer you a SMTP address, if you want to use Mail Plugin, you have two options to do.

• #1 You can configure AWS SES with a SMTP Bridge to connect to your SMTP server, but only if you're running Postfix or Sendmail locally. There is a great post that shows how to do this: http://netwiser.blogspot.com/2011/02/setup-amazon-ses-to-relay-email-by.html
• #2 You can configure mail plugin to use the ses protocol as described here http://roshandawrani.wordpress.com/2011/04/06/grails-using-mail-plugin-with-amazon-email-service/