Configure BillMax to use AWS Simple Email Service (SES®)

Contact sales to purchase the BillMax Email Service or complete the following tasks to configure BillMax to use SES:

1. As root, down load and install AWS CLI. Consult https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/getting-started-install.html. Follow instructions for Linux (curl download). Then run the install command as described.
2. Configure the AWS CLI credentials. Obtain the credentials from BillMax support. Then edit the /root/.aws/credentials file by substituting ?????? with the provided values:
   • [default]

   • aws_access_key_id=??????

   • aws_secret_access_key=??????

   • region=??????

3. Edit the /usr/local/billmax/local/billmax.conf file. Set the value of BX_AWS_SES_CONFIGSET parameter to the value supplied by BillMax support.
4. In the staff interface, change the Global Configuration setting ‘Path to the sendmail Program’ to ‘/usr/local/billmax/bin/awsses.pl’.
5. In the staff interface, for each Virtual Company, set the email addresses for contacts using the appropriate email address from the sending domain provided by BillMax support.

Once configuration is complete, validate a successful configuration by sending a statement to an email address you have access to. First confirm receipt of email. Then under the Account from which the statement was sent, view the Document History tab. The status of the delivery will be shown in the Delivery Status column of the document table.

Email delivery status for non-document-based emails (for example overdue notice) can be seen on the Notes table on the Account.