phplist amazon ec2 - problem sending emails through amazon ses service

I have set up turnkey's phplist on Amazon's EC2 service. I discovered that sending email via direct delivery results in the emails being caught by anti spam services, such as Trend Micro's ERS.

As a result I set up Amazon's SES service, received the credentials and made the necessary changes on the postfix server.

However no matter what I try, SES will always block the email due to postfix not forwarding the authentication.

See logs below:

Oct 15 05:47:20 phplist postfix/smtp[8093]: A876840D83: to=<EMAIL>, relay=email-smtp.us-east-1.amazonaws.com[184.73.222.29]:25, delay=0.9, delays=0.01/0/0.66/0.22, dsn=5.0.0, status=bounced (host email-smtp.us-east-1.amazonaws.com[184.73.222.29] said: 530 Authentication required (in reply to MAIL FROM command))
Oct 15 05:47:20 phplist postfix/qmgr[7908]: A876840D83: removed
Oct 15 05:47:40 phplist postfix/smtp[8096]: connect to email-smtp.us-east-1.amazonaws.com[23.21.91.54]:25: Connection timed out
Oct 15 05:47:41 phplist postfix/smtp[8096]: ABB2340D84: to=<EMAIL>, relay=email-smtp.us-east-1.amazonaws.com[23.23.131.119]:25, delay=22, delays=0.02/0/22/0.22, dsn=5.0.0, status=bounced (host email-smtp.us-east-1.amazonaws.com[23.23.131.119] said: 530 Authentication required (in reply to MAIL FROM command))
Oct 15 05:47:41 phplist postfix/qmgr[7908]: ABB2340D84: removed

Any advice on what I am doing wrong would be greatly appreciated.

Replies (4)

Have you configured your appliance as per the Docs?

Reply 1 2013-10-16

See the documentation here.

Perhaps you are right...

Reply 2 2013-10-17

But I'm not sure as I don't have the issue (and don't send bulk emails from AWS). These instructions were provided by a community member so I suggest that you do what you can and if you run into difficulty perhaps post on the original forum thread (should be a link to it on the wiki page). Hopefully Chris will come along and help you out by clarifying/adding info as required...

Thanks for your response. I

Reply 3 2013-10-16

Thanks for your response.

I have seen that post, but perhaps I am missing somethign because it doesn't appear to be complete?

We have a phplist appliance

Reply 4 2015-05-20

It has phplist already installed...