PowerShell - Send-MailMessage with AWS SES - Intermittent

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I've been using the below script to send email and sometimes it works, sometimes it does not. I'm not sure exactly why it is intermittent and with this error:

"ERROR: The SMTP server requires a secure connection or the client was not authenticated. The server response was: Authentication required"

This is the script I'm using:

$AWS_ACCESS_KEY = "KEYYYYYYYYYY"
$AWS_SECRET_KEY = "SECRET_KEYYYYYYYYYYYYYY"
$SECURE_KEY = $(ConvertTo-SecureString -AsPlainText -String $AWS_SECRET_KEY -Force)
$creds = $(New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential ($AWS_ACCESS_KEY, $SECURE_KEY))

$smtp = "email-smtp.us-east-1.amazonaws.com"
$from = "noreply@domain.com"
$to = "to_you@domain.com"
$bcc = "its_me@domain.com"
$subject = "Hello There"
$body = "Hey Friend!<br><br>"
$body += "Body<br><br>"
$body += "Regards,<br>"
$body += "Bye<br>"

#Sending email
Sleep 2
Send-MailMessage -From $from -To $to -Bcc $bcc -Subject $subject -Body $body -BodyAsHtml -SmtpServer $smtp -Credential $creds -UseSsl -Port 587

What could be the issue? Has anyone seen this before? Any log in AWS console that I could look at?

Thanks!

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1 Answers

I also faced a similar issue managed to resolve with the below codes.

    $smtpServer = "email-smtp.us-east-1.amazonaws.com" 
$smtpPort = 587  
$username = "************"
$password = "***********************"  
$from = "alerts@test.com"
$to = "recipient@domain.com"
$subject = "Amazon SES Test Email"
$body = "Body Amazon SES Test Email"
$cc = "xyz@domain.com"
$smtp = new-object Net.Mail.SmtpClient($smtpServer, $smtpPort)
$smtp.EnableSsl = $true 
$smtp.Credentials = new-object Net.NetworkCredential($username, $password)
$msg = new-object Net.Mail.MailMessage
$msg.From = $from
$msg.To.Add($to)
$msg.CC.Add($cc)
$msg.Subject = $subject
$smtp.Send($msg)
$msg.Body = $body
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