Amazon Simple Email Service
API Reference (API Version 2010-12-01)
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VerifyEmailIdentity

Description

Verifies an email address. This action causes a confirmation email message to be sent to the specified address.

This action is throttled at one request per second.

Request Parameters

For information about the common parameters that all actions use, see Common Parameters.

EmailAddress

The email address to be verified.

Type: String

Required: Yes

Examples

Sample Request

                
POST / HTTP/1.1
Date: Sat, 12 May 2012 05:21:58 GMT
Host: email.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
X-Amzn-Authorization: AWS3 AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE,
 Signature=hQJj2pxypqJHQgU/BW1EZGUiNIYGhkQDf7tI6UgQ2qw=,
 Algorithm=HmacSHA256, SignedHeaders=Date;Host
Content-Length: 151

AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE
&Action=VerifyEmailIdentity
&EmailAddress=user%40domain.com
&Timestamp=2012-05-12T05%3A21%3A58.000Z
&Version=2010-12-01
          
            

Sample Response

                
<VerifyEmailIdentityResponse xmlns="http://ses.amazonaws.com/doc/2010-12-01/">
  <VerifyEmailIdentityResult/>
  <ResponseMetadata>
    <RequestId>47e0ef1a-9bf2-11e1-9279-0100e8cf109a</RequestId>
  </ResponseMetadata>
</VerifyEmailIdentityResponse>