I'm getting "Internal Server Error 500" after the third or sometimes at the first attempt to send a mail using CakePHP 3 through AWS SES account (in production mode) running on Hiawatha server.
Here is my php code:
public function sendmail()
{
$email = new Email();
$email->transport('SES');
try {
$res = $email->from(['account@example.com' => 'Name'])
->to(['receiver@hotmail.com' => 'Receiver'])
->subject('Test mail')
->send('some text');
} catch (Exception $e) {
$this->Flash->error('Error. Please, try again.');
echo 'Exception : ', $e->getMessage(), "
";
return $this->redirect('/');
}
$this->Flash->success('Ok. You will receive a confirmation mail');
return $this->redirect('/');}
Here is the transport configuration
'EmailTransport' => [
'SES' => [
'host' => 'email-smtp.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com',
'port' => 25,
'timeout' => 60,
'username' => 'ASDFASADQWE',
'password' => 'FSDFDSFDSFSEREWRWERWER',
'tls' => true,
'className' => 'Smtp'
],
port 465 and 587 are not working at the first attemp
So, basically I can't identify if the problem came from CakePHP, AWS SES or some configuration on the server.
Thank you for any recommendation.
At the end I stop to use cakePHP mail and setup PHPMailer, some difficulties to use compose and make it run, however at the end this is the working code that I can send many mails in a row.
public function sendMailPHPMailer()
{
$mail = new \PHPMailer();
$mail->isSMTP();
$mail->Host = 'email-smtp.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com';
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;
$mail->Username = 'username';
$mail->Password = 'password';
$mail->SMTPSecure = 'tls';
$mail->Port = 587;
$mail->From = 'mail@mail.com';
$mail->FromName = 'cakePHP PHPMailer';
$mail->addAddress('tomail@mail.com', 'receiver');
$mail->isHTML(true);
$mail->Subject = 'Test using PHPMailer & SES';
$mail->Body = 'This is the HTML message body <b>in bold!</b>';
$mail->AltBody = 'This is the body in plain text';
if(!$mail->send()) {
$this->Flash->error('error');
echo 'Exception : ', $mail->ErrorInfo, "
";
return $this->redirect('/');
}else{
$this->Flash->success('ok');
return $this->redirect('/');
}
}
And with this code I can send only 3 mails with an interval of 1s then I receive an error 500.
public function sendmail()
{
$email = new Email();
$email->transport('SES');
try {
$res = $email->from(['mail@mail.com' => 'cakePHP mail'])
->to(['tomail@mail.com' => 'receiver'])
->subject('cakePHP & SES')
->send('message via cakePHP and SES');
} catch (Exception $e) {
$this->Flash->error('error');
echo 'Exception : ', $e->getMessage(), "
";
return $this->redirect('/');
}
$this->Flash->success('ok');
return $this->redirect('/');
}