In my application im using mailgun module to send and receive emails using node.js.I don't know how to receive the incoming emails.I created route to receive the incoming email.but its not working.
Mailgun is simply posting URL encoded form data.
Check out this discussion on receiving POST data in node.js: How do you extract POST data in Node.js?
Also it's worth noting that for whatever mail-header-related reasons, if you have mailgun set to forward something to a#b.com, then messages sent from a#b.com will not show up back in your inbox. Send mail from a different address. Note that mailgun can sometimes tell if you're using the Send As feature in gmail, and will know your main address.
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I need to build an email backend that can receive email, send email, store them in the db, like other all email services, such as Gmail or Yahoo.
Which module should I use to build such app? I searched about this, but it's all about nodemailer, which is just a sending module.
Depends on what you actually want with the backend.
For parsing mail messages i should use a package like mailparser. It tries to parse the source in different objects. Like to, cc, bcc, attachments, body etc.
For loading the messages, you can use one of the several IMAP clients. Store them with the mysql package.
Sending ofcourse with nodemailer.
The big question stays, what is the purpose of the backend. Creating a mail backend is not a easy task. Loading from IMAP and sending by SMTP is not the problem. But if you want create a service like Gmail or Yahoo, you need think about a lot aspects, like SPAM protection, queueing of mail, throttling of the outgoing mail and a lot more.
I want to forward any sms messages incoming to my Twilio (virtual) number to an email address using Twilio functions. How would I go about that?
Twilio developer evangelist here.
You absolutely can forward incoming SMS messages to email using Twilio Functions. I actually wrote a blog post on how to forward SMS as email. This particular post uses the SendGrid API to send the message, the full code is available, with instructions, on GitHub.
If you wanted to use a different service to send the email you can. There is a pull request right now that I need to review where someone added SparkPost support. As long as you have a service that you can call as an HTTP API, then you can use the code and just adjust the payload.
Let me know if that helps at all.
So, I've been making some research on this, and found these info:
Whenever a message is sent to a twilio number, also an http request is sent to the twilio server, and this server saves the message that was sent to the number.
To access that message that server is holding
We are using this code down below.
const MessagingResponse = require('twilio').twiml.MessagingResponse;
const response = new MessagingResponse();
const message = response.message();
message.body('Hello World!');
response.redirect('https://demo.twilio.com/sms/welcome');//you need to have your own document
console.log(response.toString());
The message is being redirected to the link that we have specified there, and it must be a twilio link, you can create a link from here
And all you have to do is read the message and enjoy it! For more info, please see https://www.twilio.com/docs/api/twiml/sms/your_response
I'm trying to use the emailjs (https://github.com/eleith/emailjs) for sending emails in nodejs.
I want to check if email exists before sending it and I do not want to send an email to know this.
So, My question is: How to check if an email address exists on the remote server?
At the network level, receiving and sending email are different operations. In a typical email client (like outlook or a wwebmail program) they appear integrated, but that is an elaborate illusion.
Your question mentioned a npm module to use SMTP to send emails. That's the way email clients do it.
Email clients use the POP3 protocol and sometimes the IMAP protocol to read messages from mailboxes on email servers. Some npm modules handling pop3 are available for node.js, and you can use one. But you will have to create the code to "know this email exists" as you put it in your question. You will read emails from the mailbox -- all of them! -- and examine them for the information you need to "know this email exists." If the inbox you read also belongs to a person, you need to be careful to tell POP3 to leave the messages on the server.
I am new to node.js where in my requirement is to grab received email subject, attachment and email body using node.js I am not able to find any solutions. Can anyone suggest me what kind of approach I should take.
I've read that nodemailer only permits to send mail (if I m not wrong).
You should use a librarie that allow you to receive message, like using POP3 protcole (https://www.npmjs.com/search?q=pop3)
So i have an website, abc.com. If someone sends an email at support#abc.com i want to receive it at gmail address or whatever address i chose. Then if i reply to that email it in gmail then it should send either using gmail or mandrill. And from of the email should show up as support#abc.com.
This is my first time tackling email. And i have no clue.
So far i understand i need something to take emails in, send emails out, and then there is smtp server.
I get that nodemailer fulfils the role needed by two of the first things..But rest is confusing.
I know this sounds vague but as front end jquery dev i never thought of this much. So be patient and understand like with http protocol i have not much of understanding on this. This question could be many questions however i don't know what those question need to be.