---
title: "POST /v2/email/outbound-custom-verification-emails"
method: POST
path: "/v2/email/outbound-custom-verification-emails"
---

# POST /v2/email/outbound-custom-verification-emails

`POST /v2/email/outbound-custom-verification-emails`

Adds an email address to the list of identities for your Amazon SES account in the current Amazon Web Services Region and attempts to verify it. As a result of executing this operation, a customized verification email is sent to the specified address.

To use this operation, you must first create a custom verification email template. For more information about creating and using custom verification email templates, see [Using custom verification email templates](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/dg/creating-identities.html#send-email-verify-address-custom) in the _Amazon SES Developer Guide_.

You can execute this operation no more than once per second.

## Request body

- object
  - `EmailAddress` string, required — The email address to verify.
  - `TemplateName` string, required — The name of the template. You will refer to this name when you send email using the <code>SendTemplatedEmail</code> or <code>SendBulkTemplatedEmail</code> operations.
  - `ConfigurationSetName` string — <p>The name of a configuration set.</p> <p> <i>Configuration sets</i> are groups of rules that you can apply to the emails you send. You apply a configuration set to an email by including a reference to the configuration set in the headers of the email. When you apply a configuration set to an email, all of the rules in that configuration set are applied to the email.</p>

## Response `200`

Success

- SendCustomVerificationEmailResponse — The following element is returned by the service.
  - `MessageId` string — The unique message identifier returned from the <code>SendCustomVerificationEmail</code> operation.

## Other responses

- `480` — TooManyRequestsException
- `481` — LimitExceededException
- `482` — MessageRejected
- `483` — SendingPausedException
- `484` — MailFromDomainNotVerifiedException
- `485` — NotFoundException
- `486` — BadRequestException

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