postmark-email

Server-side wrapper around Postmark API to send and handle an email response.

usage

npm install postmark-email //or bun install 

Get an API key from Postmark and create a .env file with the following values:

SEND_EMAIL=true
POSTMARK_API_KEY=xxxxx-xxx-xxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx
[email protected]

Then in your server JS do:

require('dotenv').config() //< not needed in Bun 

//Make sure your dot env is loaded BEFORE requiring:
const { sendEmail, handleEmailRes } = require('postmark-email')            

const send = () => //hypothetical fn to send the delivery status back
//ie- to your client-side UI 


const result = await sendEmail({
  to: '[email protected]', 
  subject : 'Welcome', 
  TextBody: `Hello there,

  how do you do? 

  Goodbye.`
}) 

if( handleEmailRes(result) ) {
  send({ ok: true }) 
} else {
  send({ msg : 'There was a problem sending the email' })
}               

sendEmail will send your email object using a from field based on your .env setting or otherwise you can override it using a from property in said email object.

handleEmailRes will also console out the status of if the email was sent or not plus any error so that you don't have to console out those yourself.

If handleEmailRes(resultFromSendEmail) is falsey there was an error so you can easilybubble that up to your client if need be.

If you supply the original email obj to handleEmailRes ex: handleEmailRes(resultFromSendEmail, originalEmailObj) the final output msg will include the originalEmailObj.to property.