hof-emailer

HOF Emailer

An emailer service for HOF applications.

Installation

$ npm install hof-emailer --save

Usage

// first create an emailer instance
const Emailer = require('hof-emailer');
const emailer = new Emailer({
  from: '[e-mail]',
  transport: 'smtp',
  transportOptions: {
    host: 'my.smtp.host',
    port: 25
  }
});

// then you can use your emailer to send emails
const to = '[e-mail]';
const body = 'This is the email body';
const subject = 'Important email!'
emailer.send(to, body, subject)
  .then(() => {
    console.log(`Email sent to ${to}!`);
  });

Options

• from: : Address to send emails from. Required.
• transport: : Select what mechanism to use to send emails. Defaults: 'smtp'.
• transportOptions: : Set the options for the chosen transport, as defined below. Required.
• layout: : Optional path to use a custom layout for email content.

Transports

The following transport options are available:

smtp

nodemailer-smtp-transport

Options

• host : Address of the mailserver. Required.
• port <String|Number>: Port of the mailserver. Required.
• ignoreTLS : Defaults to false.
• secure : Defaults to true.
• auth.user : Mailserver authorisation username.
• auth.pass : Mailserver authorisation password.

ses

nodemailer-ses-transport

Options

• accessKeyId : AWS accessKeyId. Required.
• secretAccessKey : AWS accessKeyId. Required.
• sessionToken
• region . Defaults to 'eu-west-1'.
• httpOptions
• rateLimit
• maxConnections

debug

A development option to write the html content of the email to a file for inspection.

transport: 'debug'

debug options

• dir : The location to save html to. Default: ./.emails. This directory will be created if it does not exist.
• open : If set to true, will automatically open the created html file in a browser.

debug example

transport: 'debug'
transportOptions: {
  dir: './emails',
  open: true
}

stub

Disables sending email. No options are required.