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Using Amazon SES to send emails from NetBox #9044

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opened 2025-12-29 20:44:44 +01:00 by adam · 5 comments
adam commented 2025-12-29 20:44:44 +01:00
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Originally created by @llamafilm on GitHub (Jan 4, 2024).

NetBox version

v3.7.0

Feature type

New functionality

Proposed functionality

In addition to SMTP, offer a way to send emails using Amazon SES.

Example code available here: https://github.com/awsdocs/aws-doc-sdk-examples/blob/main/python/example_code/ses/ses_email.py#L66

Use case

My organization strongly prefers SES APIs over SMTP. This allows you to authenticate by EC2 instance role, without creating any passwords.

Database changes

maybe a new field to store email method preference

External dependencies

https://pypi.org/project/boto3/

Originally created by @llamafilm on GitHub (Jan 4, 2024). ### NetBox version v3.7.0 ### Feature type New functionality ### Proposed functionality In addition to SMTP, offer a way to send emails using [Amazon SES](https://aws.amazon.com/ses/). Example code available here: https://github.com/awsdocs/aws-doc-sdk-examples/blob/main/python/example_code/ses/ses_email.py#L66 ### Use case My organization strongly prefers SES APIs over SMTP. This allows you to authenticate by EC2 instance role, without creating any passwords. ### Database changes maybe a new field to store email method preference ### External dependencies https://pypi.org/project/boto3/
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adam commented 2025-12-29 20:44:45 +01:00
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@markkuleinio commented on GitHub (Jan 4, 2024):

Just an idea, how I do it:

  • I run postfix on the NetBox EC2 instance, listening only on localhost, configured to send everything via SES
  • I configure NetBox to use localhost for SMTP email (duh just realized that your problem is using SMTP in general, not just using SES SMTP in NetBox configuration, leaving this here anyway...)
@markkuleinio commented on GitHub (Jan 4, 2024): Just an idea, how I do it: - I run postfix on the NetBox EC2 instance, listening only on localhost, configured to send everything via SES - I configure NetBox to use localhost for SMTP email (duh just realized that your problem is using SMTP in general, not just using SES SMTP in NetBox configuration, leaving this here anyway...)
adam commented 2025-12-29 20:44:45 +01:00
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@llamafilm commented on GitHub (Jan 4, 2024):

Thanks for the relay idea. That got me thinking, maybe I could set it up with this: https://github.com/loopingz/smtp-relay

@llamafilm commented on GitHub (Jan 4, 2024): Thanks for the relay idea. That got me thinking, maybe I could set it up with this: https://github.com/loopingz/smtp-relay
adam commented 2025-12-29 20:44:46 +01:00
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@jeffgdotorg commented on GitHub (Jan 5, 2024):

Thanks for your interest in helping improve NetBox!

We've reviewed your issue and would like to get more details to help understand it in depth. Please revise the original report to address the following:

  1. In use case, identify the problem you're trying to solve – you've stated a preference around how emails should be sent, but provided no context around why you're sending emails from NetBox.
  2. In external dependencies, please explain what role you think the boto3 library might play in the solution.
@jeffgdotorg commented on GitHub (Jan 5, 2024): Thanks for your interest in helping improve NetBox! We've reviewed your issue and would like to get more details to help understand it in depth. Please revise the original report to address the following: 1. In *use case*, identify the problem you're trying to solve – you've stated a preference around how emails should be sent, but provided no context around _why_ you're sending emails from NetBox. 2. In *external dependencies*, please explain what role you think the `boto3` library might play in the solution.
adam commented 2025-12-29 20:44:46 +01:00
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@llamafilm commented on GitHub (Jan 5, 2024):

To be honest, I'm pretty new at Netbox and don't know exactly what email is used for here. I read it can be used to alert on critical events but I haven't been able to test this yet. Perhaps there's a better solution, maybe webhooks?

boto3 is Amazon's Python library which is used to authenticate and send SES email.

@llamafilm commented on GitHub (Jan 5, 2024): To be honest, I'm pretty new at Netbox and don't know exactly what email is used for here. I read it can be used to alert on critical events but I haven't been able to test this yet. Perhaps there's a better solution, maybe webhooks? boto3 is Amazon's Python library which is used to authenticate and send SES email.
adam commented 2025-12-29 20:44:47 +01:00
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@jeffgdotorg commented on GitHub (Jan 24, 2024):

Thanks for the candor, @llamafilm. I'm still getting my NetBox legs too. And I learned something today – I've used boto3 before to wrangle S3 objects but never looked at the other services it supports.

I think there's value in continuing this conversation, so I'm going to convert this issue to a discussion and generalize the subject a little bit. Maybe it will come back around to a more fully-formed feature request down the road.

@jeffgdotorg commented on GitHub (Jan 24, 2024): Thanks for the candor, @llamafilm. I'm still getting my NetBox legs too. And I learned something today – I've used boto3 before to wrangle S3 objects but never looked at the other services it supports. I think there's value in continuing this conversation, so I'm going to convert this issue to a discussion and generalize the subject a little bit. Maybe it will come back around to a more fully-formed feature request down the road.
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