strapi-provider-email-sendmail

Deprecation Warning :warning:

Hello! We have some news to share,

We’ve decided it’ll soon be time to end the support for strapi-provider-email-sendmail.

After years of iterations, Strapi is going to V4 and we won’t maintain V3 packages when it’ll reach its end-of-support milestone (~end of Q3 2022).

If you’ve been using strapi-provider-email-sendmail and have migrated to V4 (or if you want to), you can find the equivalent and updated version of this package at this URL and with the following name on NPM: @strapi/provider-email-sendmail.

If you’ve contributed to the development of this package, thank you again for that! We hope to see you on the V4 soon.

The Strapi team

Resources

• License

Links

• Strapi website
• Strapi community on Slack
• Strapi news on Twitter

Prerequisites

You need to have the plugin strapi-plugin-email installed in you Strapi project.

Installation

# using yarn
yarn add strapi-provider-email-sendmail

# using npm
npm install strapi-provider-email-sendmail --save

Configuration

| Variable | Type | Description | Required | Default | | ----------------------- | ----------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | -------- | --------- | | provider | string | The name of the provider you use | yes | | | providerOptions | object | Will be directly given to require('sendmail'). Please refer to sendmail doc. | no | {} | | settings | object | Settings | no | {} | | settings.defaultFrom | string | Default sender mail address | no | undefined | | settings.defaultReplyTo | string | array | Default address or addresses the receiver is asked to reply to | no | undefined | | providerOptions.dkim | object | boolean | DKIM parameters having two properties: { privateKey, keySelector } | no | false |

:warning: The Shipper Email (or defaultfrom) may also need to be changed in the Email Templates tab on the admin panel for emails to send properly

Example

Path - config/plugins.js

module.exports = ({ env }) => ({
  // ...
  email: {
    provider: 'sendmail',
    settings: {
      defaultFrom: '[email protected]',
      defaultReplyTo: '[email protected]',
    },
  },
  // ...
});

Example with DKIM

Using DKIM (DomainKeys Identified Mail) can prevent emails from being considered as spam. More details about this subject can be found in the discussion on the Strapi forum: Unsolved problem: emails goes to spam!

Generate the keys using OpenSSL

openssl genrsa -out dkim-private.pem 1024
openssl rsa -in dkim-private.pem -pubout -out dkim-public.pem

Path - config/plugins.js

module.exports = ({ env }) => ({
  // ...
  email: {
    provider: 'sendmail',
    providerOptions: {
      dkim: {
        privateKey: 'replace-with-dkim-private-key',
        keySelector: 'abcd', // the same as the one set in DNS txt record, use online dns lookup tools to be sure that is retreivable
      },
    },
    settings: {
      defaultFrom: '[email protected]',
      defaultReplyTo: '[email protected]',
    },
  },
  // ...
});