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ConnectAction - Amazon Simple Email Service

ConnectAction

When included in a receipt rule, this action parses the received message and starts an email contact in Amazon Connect on your behalf.

Note

When you receive emails, the maximum email size (including headers) is 40 MB. Additionally, emails may only have up to 10 attachments. Emails larger than 40 MB or with more than 10 attachments will be bounced.

We recommend that you configure this action via Amazon Connect.

Contents

IAMRoleARN

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the IAM role to be used by Amazon Simple Email Service while starting email contacts to the Amazon Connect instance. This role should have permission to invoke connect:StartEmailContact for the given Amazon Connect instance.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 20. Maximum length of 2048.

Pattern: arn:[\w-]+:iam::[0-9]+:role/[\w-]+

Required: Yes

InstanceARN

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) for the Amazon Connect instance that Amazon SES integrates with for starting email contacts.

For more information about Amazon Connect instances, see the Amazon Connect Administrator Guide

Type: String

Pattern: arn:(aws|aws-us-gov):connect:[a-z]{2}-[a-z]+-[0-9-]{1}:[0-9]{1,20}:instance/[a-f0-9]{8}-[a-f0-9]{4}-[a-f0-9]{4}-[a-f0-9]{4}-[a-f0-9]{12}

Required: Yes

See Also

For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

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