# Where to get username, password for sending via amazon ses

**URL:** https://forum.mautic.org/t/where-to-get-username-password-for-sending-via-amazon-ses/28449
**Category:** Product Support
**Created:** [June 27, 2023, 8:25pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/where-to-get-username-password-for-sending-via-amazon-ses/28449 "2023-06-27T20:25:07Z")
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### Author: ![rotorfido](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mautic.org/rotorfido/32/580_2.png) [@rotorfido](https://forum.mautic.org/u/rotorfido)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2023, 8:25pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/where-to-get-username-password-for-sending-via-amazon-ses/28449/1 "2023-06-27T20:25:07Z")

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I need amazon ses host? so host is [email-smtp.us-east-1.amazonaws.com](http://email-smtp.us-east-1.amazonaws.com)

also where to get username and password…is that the same to the one you login to the was?

I got these two under identities

SMTP Username:

AKIAU6xxxxxxxx

SMTP Password:

BAFgUxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

I inserted them into email settings in mautic and I got error

Connection could not be established with host [email-smtp.us-east-1.amazonaws.com](http://email-smtp.us-east-1.amazonaws.com) [Connection refused #111] Log data: ++ Starting Mautic\EmailBundle\Swiftmailer\Transport\AmazonTransport !! Connection could not be established with host [email-smtp.us-east-1.amazonaws.com](http://email-smtp.us-east-1.amazonaws.com) [Connection refused #111] (code: 0)  
++ Starting Mautic\EmailBundle\Swiftmailer\Transport\AmazonTransport !! Connection could not be established with host [email-smtp.us-east-1.amazonaws.com](http://email-smtp.us-east-1.amazonaws.com) [Connection refused #111] (code: 0

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### Author: ![joeyk](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mautic.org/joeyk/32/11164_2.png) [@joeyk](https://forum.mautic.org/u/joeyk)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2023, 8:48am UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/where-to-get-username-password-for-sending-via-amazon-ses/28449/2 "2023-06-28T08:48:36Z")

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Here is a tutorial:

[![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/mautic/original/2X/6/679c8c78e1a0f3400b5a80fbedc737c100201da8.jpeg "Complete Amazon SES / SNS / IAM setup for Mautic in 2023") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTyKg1x63Jk)