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How to generate API keys for API and SMTP sending

Published on 07 November 2022

This page shows you how to generate API keys to send transactional emails via API and SMTP.

Security & Identity (IAM):

You may need certain IAM permissions to carry out some actions described on this page. This means:

  • you are the Owner of the Scaleway Organization in which the actions will be carried out, or
  • you are an IAM user of the Organization, with a policy granting you the necessary permission sets
Requirements:

Generate an API key and send emails via the API

To send your emails via the API, a valid API key and your Project ID are required.

  1. From the Scaleway console, navigate to the Credentials tab of your Project Dashboard:

  2. Scroll down to the API Key section:

  3. Click Generate new API key. The following pop-up appears:

  4. Add an API Key purpose (for your own reference), or leave this blank. Then click Generate API Key.

    The two parts of your API Key (access key and secret key) are displayed. Note the secret key carefully, as it will not be recoverable or viewable after this point.

  5. Click OK to confirm.

    Important:

    Make sure you save your secret and access keys as you will need them in the following step.

  6. Open a terminal on your computer and type the following command to send an email via the API:

cat > mail.json <<EOF
{
    "from": {
        "name": "Alice",
        "email": "alice@my.domain.example.com"
    },
    "to": [
        {
        "name": "Bob",
        "email": "bob@caramail.fr"
        }
    ],
    "subject": "Some subject",
    "text": "Some text.",
    "html": "<p>Some <span style=\"font-weight:bold\">HTML</span>.</p>",
    "project_id": "<project-id>",
    "attachments": [
        {
            "name": "file.html",
            "type": "text/html; charset=\"utf8\"",
            "content": "PCFET0NUWVBFIGh0bWw+CjxodG1sIGxhbmc9ImVuIj4KICAgIDxoZWFkPgogICAgICAgIDxtZXRhIGNoYXJzZXQ9InV0Zi04Ij4KICAgICAgICA8dGl0bGU+dGl0bGU8L3RpdGxlPgogICAgPC9oZWFkPgogICAgPGJvZHk+CiAgICAgICAgPHA+SGVsbG8gPHNwYW4gc3R5bGU9ImNvbG9yOmJsdWUiPndvcmxkPC9zcGFuPiE8L3A+CiAgICA8L2JvZHk+CjwvaHRtbD4="
        }
    ]
}
EOF
curl -X POST "https://api.scaleway.com/transactional-email/v1alpha1/regions/$REGION/emails" \
-H "X-Auth-Token: $TOKEN" \
-d @mail.json
Important:
  • If you have not configured your environment in your local machine, make sure you replace \<project_id\> with your Project ID, $REGION with fr-par and $TOKEN with your secret key.
  • Make sure you replace the email addresses with yours and your recipient’s

The following output should display:

{"emails":[{"id":"655c27f2-b2a3-4a9f-8e1f-3e6dc268b1c4","message_id":"3d928e21-187a-4539-b303-403156e37911","project_id":"3e44a89e-1f75-45f5-9b93-422db94165eb","mail_from":"alice@my.domain.example.com","rcpt_to":"bob@caramail.fr","rcpt_type":"to","created_at":"2022-08-01T07:55:36.758671147Z","updated_at":"2022-08-01T07:55:36.758671147Z","status":"new","status_details":"not yet processed","try_count":0,"last_tries":[]}]}%

Generate an API key to send emails via SMTP

The Transactional Email SMTP relay is available at smtp.tem.scw.cloud on ports 25, 587, 2587, 465 (TLS) and 2465 (TLS). To send your emails using SMTP, a valid API key and your Project ID are required.

  1. Generate an API key as shown above.
  2. Authenticate yourself to the server using your Project ID as username.
  3. Use your secret key as password and start sending emails.
Important:

You can only use the PLAIN authentication method for now, as other methods are not supported.

See Also
How to manage your email activityHow to generate API keys for API and SMTP sending with IAM