- Nodemailer is a NodeJS library.
- Nodemailer is used to send mails programatically to an email address.
- The nodemailer service is written in the nodemailer.js file inside the service folder.
- In configuration the sender's email's corresponding account's hostname, SMTP address, username & password is needed to be passed.
- The above are the parameters required for running nodemailer.
- Fetch the SMTP server settings of your email service provider. For e.g. - Rediffmail
- Run npm install.
- Run npm start. The program will ask for the email address to send the message to.
- The well known SMTP services supported by Nodemailer are in this link. These services do not require any host or port settings. The user can directly pass in the service name.
- Apart from the well known services, the SMTP information needs to be there.
- Gmail, Yahoo and some other prominent email service providers need some additional settings for nodemailer to work.
- For e.g. - GMail
- If the Gmail account has two factor auth enabled, it will not work and you need to have an application specific password. For e.g. - Refer here
- For Gmail the user needs to create an app password which will be used instead of the original user's password so that nodemailer can access the email service.