Nodemailer is a module for Node.js applications to allow easy as cake email sending. The project got started back in 2010 when there was no sane option to send email messages, today it is the solution most Node.js users turn to by default.
npm install nodemailer
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Using the email accounts registered with EmailEngine, you can receive and send emails. EmailEngine supports OAuth2, delayed sends, opens and clicks tracking, bounce detection, etc. All on top of regular email accounts without an external MTA service.
If you are able to run Node.js version 6 or newer, then you can use Nodemailer. There are no platform or resource specific requirements. All public Nodemailer methods support both callbacks and Promises (if callback is omitted). You need to have at least Node v8.0.0 if you want to use async..await with Nodemailer.
In short, what you need to do to send messages, would be the following:
This is a complete example to send an email with plain text and HTML body using Ethereal Email.
const nodemailer = require("nodemailer");
const transporter = nodemailer.createTransport({
host: "smtp.ethereal.email",
port: 587,
secure: false, // Use `true` for port 465, `false` for all other ports
auth: {
user: "maddison53@ethereal.email",
pass: "jn7jnAPss4f63QBp6D",
},
});
// async..await is not allowed in global scope, must use a wrapper
async function main() {
// send mail with defined transport object
const info = await transporter.sendMail({
from: '"Maddison Foo Koch 👻" <maddison53@ethereal.email>', // sender address
to: "bar@example.com, baz@example.com", // list of receivers
subject: "Hello ✔", // Subject line
text: "Hello world?", // plain text body
html: "<b>Hello world?</b>", // html body
});
console.log("Message sent: %s", info.messageId);
// Message sent: <d786aa62-4e0a-070a-47ed-0b0666549519@ethereal.email>
}
main().catch(console.error);
Output of the the example script as shown by the Ethereal mail catching service:
Nodemailer source can be found from Github.
Nodemailer is created by Andris Reinman. The Nodemailer logo was designed by Sven Kristjansen.