Using AWS SES with Sendmail

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Published on 2012-12-14T10:33:49Z Indexed on 2012/12/14 11:05 UTC
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I am trying to send mail via AWS SES uisng Sendmail. I have Sendmail version 8.14.4 installed and I followed the first section of this useful tutorial by Amazon.

However, I get this:

root@:/etc/mail# echo "Subject: test" | sendmail -v [email protected]
[email protected]... Connecting to [127.0.0.1] via relay...
[email protected]... Deferred: Connection timed out with [127.0.0.1]

Can anyone help me get this working?

The logs have the following:

Dec 14 10:35:21 ip-10-xx-xx-181 sm-msp-queue[17910]: qBE8K1Lu016411: to=root, delay=00:21:24, xdelay=00:06:19, mailer=relay, pri=121806, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection timed out with [127.0.0.1]

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