Support for SES Email feedback forwarding configuration

[faisalp4p]

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Description

There is a configuration about Email feedback forwarding for SES. Currently it is not supported in any of the SES resources. people have to manually do it from the aws console.

There is a challenge to decide how we can support this configuration in TF. I can think of two options:

1. Make a boolean parameter in aws_ses_domain_identity and aws_ses_email_identity. Adding a parameter to identity resource itself for notification configuration will be confusing to the users.
2. Create a dedicated resource called aws_ses_identity_feedback_forwarding_enabled. Having a dedicated resource for a simple configuration might be an overkill.

Given both solutions are not perfect I would vote for 2 as it will not touch any existing resources.

I wanted to get some feedbacks on this. Thanks!

[k3np]

Duplicate of #4182

[djravine]

Vote for option 2 - Create a dedicated resource called aws_ses_identity_feedback_forwarding_enabled

As with the existing resource aws_ses_identity_notification_topic you need to create the aws_ses_domain_identity first then reference it in the new resource. This would match the existing workflow/process.

# SES - Email Indentity
resource "aws_ses_email_identity" "ses" {
  email = var.ses_email_identity
}

# SES - Identity Notification - Bounce
resource "aws_ses_identity_notification_topic" "bounce" {
  topic_arn                = aws_sns_topic.events.arn
  notification_type        = "Bounce"
  identity                 = aws_ses_domain_identity.ses.domain
  include_original_headers = true
  depends_on = [aws_sns_topic.events]
}

# SES - Email Feedback Forwarding
resource "aws_ses_identity_feedback_forwarding_enabled" "ses" {
  identity                 = aws_ses_domain_identity.ses.domain
  enabled                  = false
}

[yuonoda]

I'm facing this issue now.
Not to send auto-reply to FROM address, I need to turn off feedback forwarding manually.

Suggestion by @djravine really make sense for me.

[yuonoda]

I opened the draft pull request for this issue.
Because this is my first PR for this repo, I'm welcome for everyone's help.
#16891

[tmegow]

What's the status on this new resource? I need to disable feedback forwarding.

[rjhornsby]

+1. Importing our SES into Terraform, but this specific setting does not seem to be available anywhere in the TF provider? From the AWS console UI, it looks like this would belong to aws_ses_identity_notification_topic - but this UI choice might just be cosmetic.

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