how to send an email in nodejs - node.js

Question

I read the following, Sending emails in Node.js? but I'm looking for a way to send an email, not through an smtp server. As in the linux envirement you have different options such as sendmail and others
I could ofc use the environment I'm in to make use of the already existing functionality, but I would be interested to learn how one would dispatch the email using only js, if even possible..
I set up an smtp server using the smtp module: https://github.com/andris9/smtp-server why I'm interested in the delivery part of a server I already setup.

Answer 1

Take a look at node-mailer. You can set it up without smtp server. https://github.com/nodemailer/nodemailer

Answer 2

var nodemailer = require('nodemailer');
var send = require('gmail-send');
var mailserverifo = nodemailer.createTransport({
service: 'gmail',
host : "smtp.gmail.com",
port : "465",
ssl : true,
auth: {
user: 'email#gmail.com',
pass: 'password#'
}
});
var Mailinfo = {
from: 'email#gmail.com',
to: 'email#info.com',
subject: 'Testing email from node js server',
text: 'That was easy!'
};
mailserverifo.sendMail(Mailinfo, function(error, info){
if (error) {
console.log(error);
} else {
console.log('Email Send Success: ' + info.response);
}
});
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Answer 3

You can use sendmail in Node js. I'v using it and it's working fine for me.
npm install sendmail --save
const sendmail = require('sendmail')();
sendmail({
from: 'no-reply#yourdomain.com',
to: 'test#qq.com, test#sohu.com, test#163.com ',
subject: 'test sendmail',
html: 'Mail of test sendmail ',
}, function(err, reply) {
console.log(err && err.stack);
});
https://www.npmjs.com/package/sendmail

Answer 4

First:Install nodemailernpm install nodemailer
Then put this into your node file:
var nodemailer = require('nodemailer');
var http = require('http');
var url = require('url');
console.log("Creating Transport")
var transporter = nodemailer.createTransport({
service:'Hotmail',
auth: {
user:'salace2008765#outlook.com',
pass: 'alice123#'
}
});
var mailOptions = {
from:'salace2008765#outlook.com',
to: 'jerome20090101#gmail.com',
subject: 'This is a test: test',
text:'TgK'
}
console.log("Sending mail")
transporter.sendMail(mailOptions, function(error, info) {
if (error) {
console.log(error);
} else {
console.log('Email sent: ' + info.response)
}
})
It usally works
Sources:W3Schools and Nodemailer's official site