Nodemailer: Easy e-mail sending from your Node.js applications

http://www.nodemailer.com/

by tilt • 12 years ago

82 31 12 years ago

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asadlionpk• 12 years ago

I used this in my product. Good work! :)

steveridout• 12 years ago

Me too, originally with gmail SMTP and now with Amazon SES.

Very easy to use and highly recommended!

lepture• 12 years ago

I've even created an Application based on Nodemailer: https://github.com/lepture/pigeon which will serve as a HTTP server.

dccoolgai• 12 years ago

Likewise...I thought it was already fairly widely used...in any case, it's the best of breed I've found: pretty well works as advertised.

ramoq• 12 years ago

I used this in some past work about a year ago. It's fantastic.

feralmoan2• 12 years ago

Same here, between Nodemailer and Haraka, SMTP relaying with node is a breeze

baudehlo2• 12 years ago

Thanks! (I wrote Haraka)

splatcollision• 12 years ago

Such a lovely logo. Compliments to the designer

cardamomo• 12 years ago

I'm familiar with this as one of the dependencies of Ghost. It was great to see that it includes sending via SES.

el_tone2• 12 years ago

The product itself looks great but am I missing something with the tagline? Surely it should be either "easy as pie" or "a piece of cake".

andris92• 12 years ago

I'm the author of Nodemailer. I'm not a native english speaker and I "borrowed" the tagline from a Node.js module by Marak Squires and didn't realize that "easy as cake" is not a widely used expression but something he probably made up himself.

el_tone2• 12 years ago

Fair enough, thanks for all your hard work btw!

chongli• 12 years ago

It's inadvertently brilliant! By being unusual, it draws attention to itself and thus to the project.

eknkc• 12 years ago

Been using it for re than a year. Sent more than a million newsletters over SES and SendGrid. Never had a problem.

Website does not seem to have a link to repo though: https://github.com/andris9/Nodemailer

ruethewhirled• 12 years ago

Thanks, was wondering if it was on github!

sehrope• 12 years ago

Nice module. Logo is pretty nifty too. The default "well known" server list is particularly useful.

If you happen to use this with AWS watch out though. It's hard coded to US east. If you're not in that region then you should configure the server manually to a local end point so that you don't have to pay for bandwidth. Would be a tad faster too.

[1] https://github.com/andris9/Nodemailer/blob/master/lib/wellkn...

bevacqua• 12 years ago

I wrote a module you can use on top of Nodemailer to send beautiful emails effortlessly.

https://github.com/bevacqua/campaign

https://github.com/bevacqua/campaign#using-nodemailer

lttlrck• 12 years ago

That looks really nice. I'll give it a go.

whileonebegin• 12 years ago

Is this really much easier than using https://www.npmjs.org/package/mailer? Also, unless nodemailer is written by the same developer as mailer, it appears they copied the tagline, "simple as cake".

        email.send({
            host : "smtp.gmail.com",              // smtp server hostname
            port : "465",                     // smtp server port
            ssl: true,
            domain : "localhost",            // domain used by client to identify itself to server
            to : "recipient@somewhere.com",
            from : 'sender@somewhere.com',
            subject : 'My Subject',
            body: 'Blah\nBlah\nBlah.,
            authentication : "login",        // auth login is supported; anything else is no auth
            username : '',
            password : ''
        },
        function (err, result) {
        });

andris92• 12 years ago

"mailer" and its derivatives are deprecated in favor of "nodemailer". Besides, "mailer" uses "nodemailer" as its backend (it used to have its own SMTP client but it had a lot of shortcomings), so it doesn't really count. You could as well create your own wrapper areound "nodemailer" that would be even easier to use.

kenperkins2• 12 years ago

Regardless of which package you use for delivering email, I can't recommend enough to put the email delivery code into an async job queue that automatically retries.

Even with major providers there are enough occasional blips that you don't want to impact delivery of your email. Additionally, it would allow you to decouple sending (popping from the queue) if you ever needed to delay it momentarily.

balls1872• 12 years ago

What async job queue do you recommend? Is it decoupled from your app server?

kenperkins2• 12 years ago

Ideally yes, it's running on a different machine. But most certainly a different process.

For the queue, I've wrapped redis and rabbitmq clients with a simple retry logic that re-enqueues the job on failure to send. It's about choosing what's right for your use case.

baudehlo2• 12 years ago

How about a mail server?

ladon86• 12 years ago

We've used Nodemailer in production at ClassDojo to send at least 100m emails - it's a great module.

singlow• 12 years ago

I started using this in all my node projects a couple years ago. It has been my favorite email library in any language I've used. I love the pre-configured services for gmail and sendgrid, etc. Surprised to see it posted - I figured everyone already was using it.

ThatGeoGuy• 12 years ago

This might be a minor comment, but I noticed you guys are using Node.js with Express.js to render nodemailer.com. You can (and maybe should) change the favicon from the default Express.js favicon.

You can do so by removing `app.use(express.favicon());` from the generated app.js file. At the very least, you could add your own favicon in your public/ folder to make the project page look (albeit in the most vain sense) more polished.

munimkazia• 12 years ago

This module is the main cog behind the email delivery service application in my organization, which I built over a year ago, and it has been supremely reliable while handling 40-50 million emails per month. Just my testimonial.

Nodemailer: Easy e-mail sending from your Node.js applications

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