AWS EMAIL RECEIVER

In order to receive emails, you should follow the instruction below

Installation

npm install aws-receive-email

Usage

const AWSEmailReceiver = require('email-receive');

AWSEmailReceiver.init(app,{"bucket":"","accessKeyId":"","secretAccessKey":""});
AWSEmailReceiver.emailReceived.subscribe(data=>{
	// console.log(data);
	AWSEmailReceiver.readEmail(data.to,data.mailId)
	.then(email => {
		console.log(email);
	})
	.catch(err => {
		console.log(err);
	});
});

DELETING EMAIL

AWSEmailReceiver.deleteEmail(data.to,data.mailId)
	.then(email => {
		console.log(email);
	})
	.catch(err => {
		console.log(err);
	});

EMAIL DATA

mail object

Parsed mail* object has the following properties

• headers – a Map object with lowercase header keys
• subject is the subject line (also available from the header mail.headers.get(‘subject’))
• from is an address object for the From: header
• to is an address object for the To: header
• cc is an address object for the Cc: header
• bcc is an address object for the Bcc: header (usually not present)
• date is a Date object for the Date: header
• messageId is the Message-ID value string
• inReplyTo is the In-Reply-To value string
• reply-to is an address object for the Cc: header
• references is an array of referenced Message-ID values
• html is the HTML body of the message. If the message included embedded images as cid: urls then these are all replaced with base64 formatted data: URIs
• text is the plaintext body of the message
• textAsHtml is the plaintext body of the message formatted as HTML
• attachments is an array of attachments

address object

Address objects have the following structure:

• value an array with address details

  • name is the name part of the email/group
  • address is the email address
  • group is an array of grouped addresses

• text is a formatted address string for plaintext context

html is a formatted address string for HTML context

AWS SETUP

• Login AWS console
• Open SES
• Click on "Rule Sets" below the "Email Receiving" section on the left menu
• Enter the rule set name
• Select the created rule set
• Click on "Create Rule" button on the opened window
• Enter the recipient email
• Once entered it will ask you to confirm domain by entering confirmation DNS record and MX record pointing to the amazon
• Once confirmation and MX record is completed you will see a verified sign beside the entered email
• Click on "Next" button bottom right-hand side of the screen to continue setting up the action
• From the dropdown of "Add action" select the "S3"
• Once you select "S3" it will show you different fields to fill
• Create a unique bucket name
• Enter a prefix (I use the same as email generally)
• Select and SNS (if don't have any follow below to create one)
  • Find SNS service section
  • Click on "Topics" from the left menu then click on the "Create Topic" button
  • Give your topic a proper name and display name
  • After the topic created select your topic and click on the "Create Subscription" button from the opened window
  • On this screen select HTTP or HTTPS from the protocol
  • Enter the main domain you are going to run the "aws-receive-email" module and add the "/aws-email-receiver" router to the URL it should look something like this (http://example.com/aws-email-receiver)
  • Once you click on "Create subscription" it will send a post request to that URL, if the app was already running with the module, it should verify subscription right away, otherwise; once you placed the app on the correct URL, you can select the subscription and click on "Request Confirmation" to trigger submission of SubscriptionConfirmation notification
• Once all setup completed on SES and SNS you can send a test email to receive a detail of email on your application and emails are stored on s3, there is also a function to delete the email as well.