Migration

This migration document applies Migrating from Nodemailer 2 to Nodemailer 3 and to a lesser extent to 4

Nodemailer v3 has dropped some features that were available in Nodemailer v2 and also introduced some new ones.

• All dependencies were dropped. There is exactly 0 dependencies needed to use Nodemailer. This brings the installation time of Nodemailer from NPM to less than 2 seconds
• All templating is gone. It was too confusing to use and to be really universal a huge list of different renderers would be required. Nodemailer is about email, not about parsing different template syntaxes
• No NTLM authentication. It was too difficult to re-implement. If you still need it then it would be possible to introduce a pluggable SASL interface where you could load the ntlm module in your own code and pass it to Nodemailer. Currently this is not possible. (Nodemailer 5 supports NTLM through an authentication addon)
• OAuth2 authentication is built in and has a different configuration. You can use both user (3LO) and service (2LO) accounts to generate access tokens from Nodemailer. Additionally there’s a new feature to authenticate differently for every message – useful if your application sends on behalf of different users instead of a single sender.
• Delivery status notifications added to Nodemailer
• Improved DKIM signing of messages. Previously you needed an external module for this and it did quite a lousy job with larger messages
• Stream transport to return a RFC822 formatted message as a stream. Useful if you want to use Nodemailer as a preprocessor and not for actual delivery.
• Sendmail transport built-in, no need for external transport plugin
• Improved Calendaring. Provide an ical file to Nodemailer to send out calendar events.