Is there an equivalent nodejs PHP mail () function

Question

I come from the world of PHP, and I'm used to using mail () to send quick diagnostic emails on occasion. Is there a module or method in the standard NodeJS library, which is roughly equivalent to this?

Answer 1

Nodemailer is a popular, stable and flexible solution:

• http://www.nodemailer.com/
• https://github.com/andris9/Nodemailer

Full usage looks something like this (the top bit is just configured, so you will only need to do this once for the application):

var nodemailer = require("nodemailer"); // create reusable transport method (opens pool of SMTP connections) var smtpTransport = nodemailer.createTransport("SMTP",{ service: "Gmail", auth: { user: " [e-mail] ", pass: "userpass" } }); // setup e-mail data with unicode symbols var mailOptions = { from: "Fred Foo ✔ < [e-mail] >", // sender address to: " [e-mail] , [e-mail] ", // list of receivers subject: "Hello ✔", // Subject line text: "Hello world ✔", // plaintext body html: "<b>Hello world ✔</b>" // html body } // send mail with defined transport object smtpTransport.sendMail(mailOptions, function(error, response){ if(error){ console.log(error); }else{ console.log("Message sent: " + response.message); } // if you don't want to use this transport object anymore, uncomment following line //smtpTransport.close(); // shut down the connection pool, no more messages }); 

Answer 2

Sure:

 const nodemailer = require('nodemailer'); const transporter = nodemailer.createTransport({sendmail: true}, { from: ' [e-mail] ', to: ' [e-mail] ', subject: 'test', }); transporter.sendMail({text: 'hello'}); 

Also see Configuring sendmail inside the docker container