Pooled SMTP

If pooling is used then Nodemailer keeps a fixed amount of connections open and sends the next message once a connection becomes available. It is mostly useful when you have a large number of messages that you want to send in batches or your provider allows you to only use a small amount of parallel connections.

To use pooled connections use the following options in transport configuration

  • pool – set to true to use pooled connections (defaults to false) instead of creating a new connection for every email
  • maxConnections – is the count of maximum simultaneous connections to make against the SMTP server (defaults to 5)
  • maxMessages – limits the message count to be sent using a single connection (defaults to 100). After maxMessages is reached the connection is dropped and a new one is created for the following messages
Deprecated options

The following options are deprecated and will be removed from future versions of Nodemailer.

  • rateDelta – defines the time measuring period in milliseconds (defaults to 1000, ie. to 1 second) for rate limiting
  • rateLimit – limits the message count to be sent in rateDelta time. Once rateLimit is reached, sending is paused until the end of the measuring period. This limit is shared between connections, so if one connection uses up the limit, then other connections are paused as well. If rateLimit is not set then sending rate is not limited

Methods

transporter.isIdle()

Returns true if there are available connection slots

transporter.close()

If transporter uses pooling then connections are kept open even if there is nothing to be sent. Connections that idle for longer than the socketTimeout will be closed automatically and reopened once there’s more mail to send. You can also use transporter.close() to clean up all connections.

let transporter = nodemailer.createTransport({pool: true,...});
// ...
transporter.close();

Events

Event:‘idle’

Emitted by the transporter object if connection pool has free connection slots. Check if a connection is still available with isIdle() method (returns true if a connection is still available). This allows to create push-like senders where messages are not queued into memory in a Node.js process but pushed and loaded through an external queue.

let messages = [..."list of messages"];
transporter.on("idle", function () {
  // send next message from the pending queue
  while (transporter.isIdle() && messages.length) {
    transporter.sendMail(messages.shift());
  }
});