form-to-ses

Contact form to Amazon SES

Receive POST data and send them through Amazon SES (ideal for contact forms)

Setup

Prerequisites:

• Node.js
• An Amazon SES account

Retrieve dependencies:

npm install

Configure:

cp config.dist.json config.json

Then edit config.json to setup your app:

• region: your Amazon SES account region
• access_key_id and secret_access_key: your Amazon AWS credentials
• from: the sender email address of the emails you will receive (it must be verified). You can use the [origin] placeholder, which will be replaced by the hostname of your form, or [domain] for the domain name (origin root).
• to: your email address(es)
• default_subject: used if your visitor did not provide a subject to their message (or if you did not provide a subject field)
• allowed_origins (optional): hostnames allowed to post (no port)
• rollbar_token (optional): your Rollbar Project Access Token (usually the post_server_item)

Start

./server.js

Or daemonize:

npm install -g pm2
PORT=3000 pm2 start server.js --name "form-to-ses" -- --color

Use

Your contact form should look like this:

<form method="post" action="http://mail.yourdomain.com/send">
    <input type="hidden" name="success" value="thanks.html">
    <input type="hidden" name="error" value="error.html">
    <input type="text" name="name" required>
    <input type="text" name="email" required>
    <input type="text" name="subject">
    <textarea name="message"></textarea>
    <button>Send</button>
</form>

If the mail is successfully sent to you, the user will be redirected to the page specified in the success input field.
If an error happens, the user will be redirected to the page specified in the error input field, with the reason as a reason parameter in the URL query. If you have plugged a Rollbar account, you will find more information there.