HTML formating in SES send-mail

[txynidakis]

Hi
Not sure if this is the write forum for this
I'm trying to insert a HREF reference into an email and sending it through ses send-main.

Variable

message="Hi\,<br /> \
      You are recieving this email because you AWS Access is $keyIsDaysOld.<br /> \
      Our policy request that keys rotated every 90 days.<br /> \
      <b>Your key has been DEACTIVATED.</b> <br /> \
      <br /> \
      Instruction to rotate your keys are <a href=\"https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/id_credentials_access-keys.html\">here</a><br />";

Command

aws ses send-email --from jenkins@******.com \
                     --destination "ToAddresses=****@t****.com" \
                     --message "Subject={Data=from ses,Charset=UTF-8},\
                               Body={Text={Data=,Charset=UTF-8},Html={Data=${message},Charset=UTF-8}}" \
                     --region us-east-1

Output

Error parsing parameter '--message': Expected: ',', received: '"' for input:
Subject={Data=from ses,Charset=UTF-8},                               Body={Text={Data=,Charset=UTF-8},Html={Data=Hi\,<br />       You are recieving this email because you AWS Access is .<br />       Our policy request that keys rotated every 90 days.<br />       <b>Your key has been DEACTIVATED.</b> <br />       <br />       Instruction to rotate your keys are <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/id_credentials_access-keys.html">here</a><br />,Charset=UTF-8}}
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   ^

I've tried many combination of \ ""\ but to no avail!
Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

I'm trying to avoid using a json file for the message component

[diehlaws]

Thanks for reaching out to us about this @txynidakis. I was able to get this working with minor changes in the message variable and the command as shown below. You can use single quotes for the URL in the message so you don't have to worry about correctly escaping the quotes inside the variable, and you can put ${message} in escaped double quotes so that the AWSCLI does not interpret the quotes inside of the message variable.

Variable

export message="Hi,<br /> \
      You are recieving this email because you AWS Access is $keyIsDaysOld.<br /> \
      Our policy request that keys rotated every 90 days.<br /> \
      <b>Your key has been DEACTIVATED.</b> <br /> \
      <br /> \
      Instruction to rotate your keys are <a href='https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/id_credentials_access-keys.html'>here</a><br />"

Command

aws ses send-email --from fromAddress@domain.tld --destination "ToAddresses=toAddress@domain.tld" --message "Subject={Data=from ses,Charset=UTF-8},Body={Text={Data=,Charset=UTF-8},Html={Data=\"${message}\",Charset=UTF-8}}" --region us-east-1

[no-response]

This issue has been automatically closed because there has been no response to our request for more information from the original author. With only the information that is currently in the issue, we don't have enough information to take action. Please reach out if you have or find the answers we need so that we can investigate further.