Mikrotik and Amazon SES

Hi all, I’m trying to use Amazon SES as an SMTP server for my Router. I have set up the e-mail section under /tools with the dns address for ses. On test emails, the ip of the smtp server is looked up at that given time, and I can send a test successfully.

I then configured a logging event to email on l2tp connecting, with the action to email. What I am experiencing is that the mail fails as “could not connect to server”. Does the logging config use the e-mail tool config, or is there something else I am missing? The same error occurs on checking tls in the action or not.