SendGrid tells me I need a reseller account, and Postmark won't let me send newsletter-style messages; so it's time to try Amazon's Simple Email Service. All I need is a big machine that takes care of delivering mail, the rest is fluff.
I'm using drewblas/aws-ses. Somewhere between ActionMailer and AWS::SES, errors are swallowed and your application fails to let you know that emails aren't getting sent. By the time I had broken the "fetch mail" button on my mail client, it was time to run rails console on the server to figure out what was going on:
$ RAILS_ENV=staging rails console
Loading staging environment (Rails 3.0.3)
irb(main):001:0> require "aws/ses"
false
irb(main):003:0> ses = AWS::SES::Base.new :access_key_id => "your_access_key", :secret_access_key => "not_telling_you"
=> #<AWS::SES::Base:0x7fd3607d0308 etc... >
irb(main):003:0> ses.send_email :to => ['me@my.domain'], :source => 'test@other.domain', :subject => 'Testing', :text_body => 'Yes, testing!'
AWS::SES::ResponseError: AWS::SES Response Error: RequestExpiredRequest timestamp: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 10:13:32 GMT expired. It must be within 300 secs/ of server time.
It turns out that my server's clock was racing into the future. I like how Slicehost moves fast, but I wasn't expecting observable relativistic effects. My server was 8 whole minutes ahead of the rest of the world. If I wasn't busy building my cool new site I could have used it to game the stock market or something wicked like that ...
Anyway, thanks to Code Ghar here's the solution:
$ date
Mon Feb 14 10:16:24 UTC 2011
$ sudo ntpdate pool.ntp.org
14 Feb 10:08:55 ntpdate[25724]: step time server 38.229.71.1 offset -639.622800 sec
$ date
Mon Feb 14 10:09:01 UTC 2011
Happy mailing!
Just ran into the same problem - nice to find a solution as the first google result for "amazon ses RequestExpired".
ReplyDeleteFWIW, I noticed this because we have the following to catch SES errors before they are swallowed:
class Mail::Message
def deliver_with_error_recording
deliver_without_error_recording
rescue AWS::SES::ResponseError => e
# save e into send record
end
alias_method_chain :deliver, :error_recording
end
Which has proven helpful with some of Amazon SES' interesting errors.
THANKS :D same problem here, I was going nuts couldn't figure out the problem. silly silly hosting company!
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Just saved me a s*&#load of time , thank you very much :)
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ReplyDeleteStill relevant and helpful > 2 yrs later.. thanks for the help!
ReplyDeleteThis saved me a lot of time troubleshooting what that error code means! Thanks a lot.
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