Gerrit Amazon SES SMTP configuration

[Philip Stefanov]

Hello guys,

I have gerrit running in AWS which was blocked by proofpoint,
and i decided to switch from local postfix to Amazon SES.
My configuration in Gerrit looks like:

gerrit.config

[sendemail]
    smtpServer = email-smtp.us-west-2.amazonaws.com
    smtpServerPort = 465
    smtpEncryption = tsl
    sslVerify = false
    from = SERVER
    smtpUser = MYSMTPUSER

secure.config

[sendemail]
    smtpPass = mypass


After restart my gerrit was trying to send mails via postfix again.
Then i purge postix from my system and now i see in the logs.

[2017-05-25 19:59:40,361] [HTTP-10542] ERROR com.google.gerrit.httpd.restapi.RestApiServlet : Error in PUT /accounts/self/emails/stefanov%40.com
com.google.gerrit.common.errors.EmailException: Mail Error: Connection refused (Connection refused)
    at com.google.gerrit.server.mail.SmtpEmailSender.open(SmtpEmailSender.java:291)
    at com.google.gerrit.server.mail.SmtpEmailSender.send(SmtpEmailSender.java:174)
    at com.google.gerrit.server.mail.OutgoingEmail.send(OutgoingEmail.java:153)
    at com.google.gerrit.server.account.CreateEmail.apply(CreateEmail.java:136)
    at com.google.gerrit.server.account.CreateEmail.apply(CreateEmail.java:103)
    at com.google.gerrit.server.account.CreateEmail.apply(CreateEmail.java:44)

I guess now im trying to connect to the amazon SMTP right?

Same configuration is working in Jira.

[Reyad Attiyat]

I use AWS SES with Gerrit and it works fine. In my configuration I use:
  smtpEncryption = ssl
and do not include a port. Not sure why tls won't work but maybe try leaving off the port number or using port 2465 which seems to be another port number Amazon uses.
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/DeveloperGuide/smtp-connect.html#smtp-connect-tlswrapper

[Philip Stefanov]

Hi Reyad,

I did try with smtpEncryption = ssl
and no port then again with port 2465 still getting exception.
What Gerrit version do u use?
Im on 2.13.7

[Philip Stefanov]

In Confluence i had to use port 25 instead of 465 to get it work.
My workaround for Gerrit for now is to use localhost postfix
and then forward the mails from postfix to Amazon SES
Following this integration steps:
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/DeveloperGuide/postfix.html

[Reyad Attiyat]

I'm using Gerrit 2.14. Not sure what could be failing. If you can connect with another application it could be SSL/TLS connection Gerrit uses in 2.13 is not using a supported cipher.