Node Emailer

Node emailer allows you to send HTML based emails with or without attachments.

You can visit npm for more info on node-email-sender package

To use the package in your app

Run npm install node-email-sender

Import Package

Import this package where you want to use Email service.

var emailer = require('node-email-sender');

Creating email configuration

Save this configuration in your existing configuration file or create a new one. Use this configuration in the file from which you want to send mail and simply pass the object in the mail function as a parameter.

emailConfig = {
    emailFrom: 'EMAIL_FROM_ID', (MANDATORY)
    transporterConfig: {
        service: 'SERVICE_PROVIDER', (MANDATORY)
        auth: {
            user: 'EMAIL_ACCOUNT', (MANDATORY)
            pass: 'EMAIL_PASSWORD' (MANDATORY)
        },
        port: 'EMAIL_POST', (OPTIONAL) | (Default: 587 for unsecured and 465 for secured connection)
        host: 'HOST_OR_IP_NAME', (OPTIONAL) | (Default: localhost)
        secure: 'EMAIL_SECURITY', (OPTIONAL) | (Default: false)
        tls: 'SECURE_SOCKET_CONSTRUCTOR', (OPTIONAL) | (Default: false)
    }
}

Using the Node Emailer

Use this code snippet to call the emailer class function.

let response = emailer.sendMail({
    emailConfig: 'EMAIL_SERVER_AND_CONFIGURATION', (MANDATORY) | (Configuration need to be saved and imported)
    to: 'TO_EMAIL', (MANDATORY)
    subject: 'EMAIL_SUBJECT', (MANDATORY)
    content: 'EMAIL_CONTENT', (MANDATORY)
    attachments: '[ATTACHMENT ARRAY]' (OPTIONAL) | FORMAT - {filename:'file.txt', path:'/path/to/file.txt'}
});

Sample code to run

var sendMail = require('node-email-sender');

let emailConfig = {
    emailFrom: '[email protected]',
    transporterConfig: {
        service: 'gmail',
        auth: {
            user: '[email protected]',
            pass: 'sample-password'
        }
    }
}

var response = sendMail.sendMail({
    emailConfig: emailConfig,
    to: '[email protected]',
    subject: 'Sample subject',
    content: 'Sample content',
});

console.log(response);