AWS Self Mail Sender

A simple utility for sending an email to yourself using AWS SES, perfect for use in "Contact Us" forms and similar scenarios. This package provides an easy-to-use function to send emails directly to your inbox, ensuring that you don't miss important messages from your users.

Features

• Send emails to yourself using AWS SES
• Ideal for "Contact Us" forms or similar use cases
• Easy to integrate into any Node.js project

Installation

To install the package, use npm:

npm install aws-self-mail-sender

or with yarn:

yarn add aws-self-mail-sender

Usage

First, you need to configure your AWS credentials to allow the package to send emails using AWS SES. This can be done by setting up environment variables:

AWS_REGION=your-aws-region
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=your-access-key-id
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=your-secret-access-key

[email protected]
AWS_SES_EMAIL_NAME=Your Name
AWS_SES_SUBJECT=New Contact Us Submission from [Your Website Name]

import { awsSesSelfMailSender, LanguageValidationRules, ValidationRules, createValidationRegex } from 'aws-self-mail-sender'

const fieldOptions = {
  emailFrom: {
    name: 'Email From',
    required: true,
    validation: true,
    minLength: 1,
    maxLength: 500,
    pattern: /^[a-z0-9._%+-]+@[a-z0-9.-]+\.[a-z]{2,4}$/i,
    errorMessage: 'Please provide a valid email address',
  },
  subject: {
    name: 'Subject',
    required: false,
    validation: true,
    pattern: createValidationRegex(LanguageValidationRules.LatinAlphabetPattern, LanguageValidationRules.EstonianPattern, ValidationRules.SpecialCharacterPattern),
    errorMessage: 'Please provide a valid subject',
  },
}

const emailRequest = {
  emailFrom: '[email protected]',
  subject: 'Contact Us Form Submission',
  message: 'This is a test message from the contact form.',
}

awsSesSelfMailSender(fieldOptions).sendMail(emailRequest)
  .then((response) => {
    console.log('Email sent successfully:', response);
  })
  .catch((error) => {
    console.error('Error sending email:', error);
  })

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for more details.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request or open an issue on GitHub if you find a bug or have a suggestion for improvement.