AWS SES: How to get the response for an email request?

Question

I am using AWS SDK for java to send emails. Following is my code -

public void sendMessage(MimeMessage mimeMessage) throws MessagingException, IOException {
        // Sending the email.
        ByteArrayOutputStream outputStream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
        mimeMessage.writeTo(outputStream);
        RawMessage rawMessage =
                new RawMessage(ByteBuffer.wrap(outputStream.toByteArray()));
        SendRawEmailRequest rawEmailRequest =
                new SendRawEmailRequest(rawMessage);
        SendRawEmailResult result = client.sendRawEmail(rawEmailRequest);
        log.info("Email sent!");
        log.debug("Email sent with message id: {}",result.getMessageId());
    }

Now I want to be able to check if my email was sent or not. I found some documentation stating that SES always returns a response along with the message id, if so how can I extract the response from the message id? If not, then what other ways are possible to get the response?

Answer 1

Try / catch. Do the error handling in the catch block.

public void sendMessage(MimeMessage mimeMessage) throws MessagingException, IOException {
    // Sending the email.
    ByteArrayOutputStream outputStream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
    mimeMessage.writeTo(outputStream);
    RawMessage rawMessage =
            new RawMessage(ByteBuffer.wrap(outputStream.toByteArray()));
    SendRawEmailRequest rawEmailRequest =
            new SendRawEmailRequest(rawMessage);
   
 try {
    SendRawEmailResult result = client.sendRawEmail(rawEmailRequest);
  } catch (Exception e) {
    // Handle error here
  }

}

Answer 2

Looks to me like you're missing an await command.

I think it should look like this:

SendRawEmailResult result = await client.sendRawEmail(rawEmailRequest);