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Nodemailer: SMTP Transport

  • What is it?
    • Allows you to pipeline emails from NodeJS to an SMTP account for sending
  • Outlook
    • Difficulties: Worked great with outlook until Outlook locked our account
      • Most personal email providers like outlook, gmail etc consider services like nodemailer “less secure” and will send to associated emails to spam box or lock accounts
  • Email API Services
    • Email API services are commonly used in practice with nodemailer
      • Difficulties: Most of the services require payment (sendgrid, mailgun, postmark, twilio)
    • Mailtrap
      • Email API service with a free tier
      • Requires a custom domain or subdomain to be configured to nodemailer via DNS settings
      • Difficulties: Unable to configure and connect to our Heroku subdomain

Nodemailer: Sendmail Transport

  • What is it?
    • Allows you to pipeline emails from NodeJS to the Unix Sendmail command in order to send emails
  • Difficulties:
    • Difficult to test on windows without Unix
      • Requires Windows Subsystem for Linux or similar installation in order to run Unix Sendmail (Can be configured via the Nodemailer Application as well).
    • Unable to test on Heroku
      • Deploying and testing on Heroku proved to be more difficult than expected and we were not able to sufficiently test Nodemailer with the Sendmail protocol

Options for Continued Development

  • Nodemailer Application
    • Nodemailer application allows you to create a local SMTP server to upload emails to. This catches emails sent from NodeJS and saves them to disk. They then can be uploaded in “batches” to a SMTP server for sending.
    • Allows for easier testing and scalability, alongside Nodemailer Sendmail or SMTP Transport
    • https://www.nodemailer.com/
  • Node-sendmail
  • Email JS
  • Nodemailer - other transports
    • Nodemailer supports a few other transports such as AWS SES transport
    • Further research needed
  • Node email-templates