AWS CLI SES send-email

gistfile1.txt

# email using aws ses
function send-email ()
{
    email_message="/tmp/email_message"
    email_cleanup="/tmp/email_cleanup"
email_destination="/tmp/email_destination"

# we need to clean up our logs so we can send via json; remove new line and quotes
# and I don't understand the bash issue with running cat | sed in the $email_message declaration. Fun TODO to understand why?
cat $LOG_FILE | sed ':a;N;$!ba;s/\n/\\n/g' | tr -d '"' > $email_cleanup

cat > $email_message <<EOF
{
   "Subject": {
       "Data": "$message",
       "Charset": "UTF-8"
   },
   "Body": {
       "Text": {
           "Data": "`cat $email_cleanup`",
           "Charset": "UTF-8"
       }
   }
}
EOF

cat > $email_destination <<EOF
{
  "ToAddresses":  ["$email_addr"],
  "CcAddresses":  [],
  "BccAddresses": []
}
EOF

$AWS_BIN ses send-email --from "$from_addr" --destination file://$email_destination --message file://$email_message --region us-east-1
}