Mail

Email sending helper built on top of nodemailer and email-templates

It doesn't do anything fancy, it simply makes it quicker to get started. In the future, this will become the place with all the best practices so that doesn't need to be replicated across multiple projects.

Installation

Install the module as a git npm module. For example, to install v0.2.0 use the following command:

$ npm install --save git+ssh://[email protected]:jksdua__common/mail.git#v0.2.0

Usage

Step 1 - Create the mail client

var templatesDir = __dirname + '/templates';

var mail = require('js_mail')({
	templates: { dir: templatesDir },
	transport: require('nodemailer-smtp-transport')()
});

Step 2 - Send emails and have fun!

yield mail.send({
	template: {
		name: 'template-a',
		locals: { some: 'param', another: 'param' }
	},
	mail: {
		from: '[email protected]',
		to: '[email protected]'
	}
});

API Documentation

Mail()

Mail client

@class Mail
@constructor
@param {Object} options Mail client options
	@param {Object} options.templates Templates options
		@param {String} options.templates.dir Directory with templates
	@param {Object} options.transport Transport instance

@example
	var path = require('path');

	var templatesDir = path.join(__dirname, '/templates');

	var mail = require('js_mail')({
		templates: { dir: templatesDir },
		transport: require('nodemailer-stub-transport')()
	});

options

Options used to initialise the instance

@property options

transport

Mail transport used to send emails

@property transport

template

Loaded email templates

@property template

schema

Schema for args passed to various methods

@property schema
@type Object

defaults

Default options for various methods

@property defaults
@type Object

init()

Initialises email - loads templates

@method init
@async

@example
	yield mail.init();

send()

Sends an email

@method send
@param {Object} options Sending mail options
	@param {Object} options.template Template options
		@param {String} options.template.name Name of the template
		@param {Object} options.template.locals Locals passed to the renderer
	@param {Object} options.mail Mail options. See `nodemailer` for details.
@async

@example
	yield mail.send({
		template: {
			name: 'pasta-dinner',
			locals: { firstName: 'John', lastName: 'Smith' }
		},
		mail: {
			from: '[email protected]',
			to: '[email protected]',
			subject: 'Hello world!'
		}
	});

Generated using the following command:

> ./node_modules/.bin/markdox index.js

Test

Tests can be run using mocha

$ git clone [email protected]:jksdua__common/mail.git

$ npm install

$ npm test

Changelog

v0.2.0 (28 January 2015)

• Bumped dependencies

v0.1.0 (9 September 2014)

• Updated nodemailer version

v0.0.1 (7 September 2014)

• Initial commit