# Sending email through Amazon SES using software packages
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There are a number of commercial and open source software packages that support sending email through SMTP. Here are some examples:
+ Blogging platforms
+ RSS aggregators
+ List management software
+ Workflow systems

You can configure any such SMTP-enabled software to send email through the Amazon SES SMTP interface. For instructions on how to configure SMTP for a particular software package, see the documentation for that software.

The following procedure shows how to set up Amazon SES sending in JIRA, a popular issue-tracking solution. With this configuration, JIRA can notify users through email whenever there is a change in the status of a software issue.

**To configure JIRA to send email using Amazon SES**

1. Using your web browser, log in to JIRA with administrator credentials.

1. In the browser window, choose **Administration**.

1. On the **System** menu, choose **Mail**.

1. On the **Mail administration** page, choose **Mail Servers**.

1. Choose **Configure new SMTP mail server**.

1. On the **Add SMTP Mail Server** form, fill in the following fields:

   1. **Name**—A descriptive name for this server.

   1. **From address**—The address from which email will be sent. You must verify this email address with Amazon SES before you can send from it. For more information about verification, see [Verified identities in Amazon SES](verify-addresses-and-domains.md).

   1. **Email prefix**—A string that JIRA prepends to each subject line prior to sending.

   1. **Protocol**—Choose **SMTP**.
**Note**  
If you can't connect to Amazon SES using this setting, try **SECURE\_SMTP**.

   1. **Hostname**—See [Connecting to an Amazon SES SMTP endpoint](smtp-connect.md) for a list of Amazon SES SMTP endpoints. For example, if you want to use the Amazon SES endpoint in the US West (Oregon) Region, the hostname would be *email-smtp.us-west-2.amazonaws.com*.

   1. **SMTP port**—25, 587, or 2587 (to connect using STARTTLS), or 465 or 2465 (to connect using TLS Wrapper).

   1. **TLS**—Select this check box.

   1. **User name**—Your SMTP user name.

   1. **Password**—Your SMTP password.

   You can see the settings for TLS Wrapper in the following image.  
![SMTP email configuration for JIRA](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/dg/images/SMTP_jira.png)

1. Choose **Test Connection**. If the test email that JIRA sends through Amazon SES arrives successfully, then your configuration is complete.