How can I use Amazon SES with Ghost?

I saw at https://ghost.org/docs/config/#mail that SES is allowed.

But I edited my config.production.json and ran ghost restart, but Ghost still says:

Set up Mailgun to start sending newsletters!

The config I used was:

"mail": {
    "from": "My Name <example@example.com>",
    "transport": "SMTP",
    "options": {
      "host": "email-smtp.us-east-1.amazonaws.com",
      "port": 465,
      "service": "SES",
      "auth": {
        "user": "asdfadsffdsf",
        "pass": "asdfasdfadfs"
      }
    }
  },

I got the SMTP-ACCESS-KEY-ID and SES-SMTP-SECRET-ACCESS-KEY from https://us-east-1.console.aws.amazon.com/ses/home?region=us-east-1#/smtp

What did I do wrong?

I also had this issue.

I fixed it by using the below config for Ghost.

"mail": {
      "transport": "SMTP",
      "options": {
          "host": "email-smtp.us-east-1.amazonaws.com",
          "port": 2465,
          "secure": true,
          "service": "SES",
          "from": "'Name' email",
          "auth": {
              "user": "access-key",
              "pass": "secret-access-key"
          }
      }
  }

Notice some changes from your config:

• "port": 2465,
• added "secure": true,
• use the IAM secret access key as it is. (Don't convert to SMTP password.)