Convert AWS SES received emails to human readable format

Question

Is it possible to convert received emails in AWS SES to a human readable format before forwarding to SNS or S3? Please share a example code, if its possible.

A sample email content received is as follows

FW: Test Email 1

Test 1

From: Ashan 
Sent: Friday, 
April 21, 2017 2:30 PM
To: ‘test@example.org' 
>
Subject: Test 
Email

Hi,

This is a test 
mail.

Regards,
Ashan

--
_000_HK2PR0302MB2609710D3BC86E413C88D359B81A0HK2P2MB2609_
Content-
Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 
quoted-printable









Test 4 -



The textual content of the email expected was 'Hi, this is a test mail'

user_1549165 · Answer

I was able to achieve the outcome, instead of converting the mails, store them to a S3 bucket and using a S3 trigger, invoke a Lambda function which forwards the mail content. To simplify the forwarding, I have used the NPM library aws-lambda-ses-forwarder, which does all the heavy lifting. Following code shows the logic for email forwarding.

var LambdaForwarder = require("aws-lambda-ses-forwarder");

exports.handler = function(event, context) {

var overrides = {
    config: {
        fromEmail: "",
        subjectPrefix: "",
        emailBucket: "ses-bucket",
        emailKeyPrefix: "emails/",
        forwardMapping: {
            "": [
                ""
            ]
        }
    }
};
LambdaForwarder.handler(event, context, overrides);
};

forwarded-email-address - You will receive the email to your inbox from this address.
received-email-address - You will be receiving the emails sent to this address forwarded by the Lamda to your inbox.
your-email-address - Your email address which you want to receive the forwarded emails.

In addition, make sure, the Lambda function has the right permission to read from S3 and forward mails, using SES.

Convert AWS SES received emails to human readable format

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