Amazon now offers SMTP Server with their AWS SES service.
We got it working now.
Here is how you do it:
go to amazon and set the SMTP incl. one user up. (see Amazon doc)
In Splunk:
Mail host: (choose the one amazon tells you)
email-smtp.us-east-1.amazonaws.com:465
Security: Enable SSL
UserName: amazon crypto username
Pass: abc
Link hostname: your external IP of the splunkserver
send emails as: the verfied Email adress
That setup worked for us
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