[2.x] add Amazon SES mail driver — core or FoF?

[imorland]

Amazon SES Mail Driver

Amazon SES (Simple Email Service) is a popular choice for self-hosted Flarum installs running on AWS infrastructure. Symfony ships a first-party bridge (symfony/amazon-mailer) that would make implementation straightforward.

What would be involved

• New composer dependency: symfony/amazon-mailer
• src/Mail/SesDriver.php implementing DriverInterface
  • Settings: AWS access key, secret key, region
  • buildTransport() via SesApiAsyncAwsTransport or SesSmtpTransport
• Locale keys, unit tests, integration test update

Question: core or FoF?

Unlike Postmark (where the dep already exists), SES would require adding a new composer dependency to core. We're leaning towards a Friends of Flarum extension for this one — it keeps core lean and targets a more specific audience (AWS users).

Opinions welcome — particularly from anyone currently running Flarum on AWS.

[GreXXL]

FoF - not mainstream enough

[DavideIadeluca]

Would also opt for FoF. SES can be used thru SMTP already. Implementing a dedicated driver (which I assume the scope of this issue is) would bring benefits nonetheless so generally I'd welcome this driver, but wouldn't prioritize it much