I created a manual configuration similar to the one listed above by @Sanjeev. This works fine for sending on the command line
php bin/console swiftmailer:email: send
However I get no emails when using the UVdesk interface and I'm not seeing anything in the logs that tells me what's going on. Amazon Web Services (AWS) Simple Email Server is a requirement for us to deploy customer-facing solutions, so using Gmail for outgoing email won't work for us. I'm guessing it is something simple i'm overlooking. I've read about AWS SES requiring base64, so perhaps there's a config i need to do to force this, though i wouldn't think that would be an issue since I can send email through swiftmailer just fine using the command line.