Question

I come from the world of PHP and I’m accustomed to using mail() to send quick diagnostic emails on occasion.
Is there a module or method in the standar library of NodeJS that’s roughly the equivalent of 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 setup – so you would only have to do that once per app):

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
});