mailbuild is a low level rfc2822 message composer. Define your own mime tree, no magic included.
mailbuild is a low level rfc2822 message composer. Define your own mime tree, no magic included.
This module requires TextEncoder and TextDecoder to exist as part of the StringEncoding API (see: MDN whatwg.org). Firefox 19+ is basically the only browser that supports this at the time of writing, while Chromium in canary, not stable. Luckily, there is a polyfill!
npm install --save mailbuild
This module has dependencies that will be fetched automatically.
Create a new Mailbuild object with
var builder = new Mailbuild(contentType [, options]);
Where
filename option if available)The same methods apply to the root node created with new Mailbuild() and to any child nodes.
Creates and appends a child node to the node object
node.createChild(contentType, options)
The same arguments apply as with new Mailbuild(). Created node object is returned.
Example
new Mailbuild("multipart/mixed").
createChild("multipart/related").
createChild("text/plain");
Generates the following mime tree:
multipart/mixed
↳ multipart/related
↳ text/plain
Appends an existing child node to the node object. Removes the node from an existing tree if needed.
node.appendChild(childNode)
Where
Method returns appended child node.
Example
var childNode = new Mailbuild("text/plain"),
rootNode = new Mailbuild("multipart/mixed");
rootnode.appendChild(childNode);
Generates the following mime tree:
multipart/mixed
↳ text/plain
Replaces current node with another node
node.replace(replacementNode)
Where
Method returns replacement node.
Example
var rootNode = new Mailbuild("multipart/mixed"),
childNode = rootNode.createChild("text/plain");
childNode.replace(new Mailbuild("text/html"));
Generates the following mime tree:
multipart/mixed
↳ text/html
Removes current node from the mime tree. Does not make a lot of sense for a root node.
node.remove();
Method returns removed node.
Example
var rootNode = new Mailbuild("multipart/mixed"),
childNode = rootNode.createChild("text/plain");
childNode.remove();
Generates the following mime tree:
multipart/mixed
Sets a header value. If the value for selected key exists, it is overwritten.
You can set multiple values as well by using [{key:"", value:""}] or
{key: "value"} structures as the first argument.
node.setHeader(key, value);
Where
Method returns current node.
Example
new Mailbuild("text/plain").
setHeader("content-disposition", "inline").
setHeader({
"content-transfer-encoding": "7bit"
}).
setHeader([
{key: "message-id", value: "abcde"}
]);
Generates the following header:
Content-type: text/plain
Content-Disposition: inline
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Message-Id: <abcde>
Adds a header value. If the value for selected key exists, the value is appended as a new field and old one is not touched.
You can set multiple values as well by using [{key:"", value:""}] or
{key: "value"} structures as the first argument.
node.addHeader(key, value);
Where
Method returns current node.
Example
new Mailbuild("text/plain").
addHeader("X-Spam", "1").
setHeader({
"x-spam": "2"
}).
setHeader([
{key: "x-spam", value: "3"}
]);
Generates the following header:
Content-type: text/plain
X-Spam: 1
X-Spam: 2
X-Spam: 3
Retrieves the first mathcing value of a selected key
node.getHeader(key)
Where
Example
new Mailbuild("text/plain").getHeader("content-type"); // text/plain
Sets body content for current node. If the value is a string, charset is added automatically
to Content-Type (if it is text/*). If the value is a Typed Array, you need to specify the charset yourself.
node.setContent(body)
Where
Example
new Mailbuild("text/plain").setContent("Hello world!");
Builds the rfc2822 message from the current node. If this is a root node, mandatory header fields are set if missing (Date, Message-Id, MIME-Version)
node.build()
Method returns the rfc2822 message as a string
Example
new Mailbuild("text/plain").setContent("Hello world!").build();
Returns the following string:
Content-type: text/plain
Date: <current datetime>
Message-Id: <generated value>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Hello world!
Generates a SMTP envelope object. Makes sense only for root node.
var envelope = node.generateEnvelope()
Method returns the envelope in the form of {from:'address', to: ['addresses']}
Example
new Mailbuild().
addHeader({
from: "From <from@example.com>",
to: "receiver1@example.com",
cc: "receiver2@example.com"
}).
getEnvelope();
Returns the following object:
{
"from": "from@example.com",
"to": ["receiver1@example.com", "receiver2@example.com"]
}
When setting address headers (From, To, Cc, Bcc) use of unicode is allowed. If needed
the addresses are converted to punycode automatically.
For attachments you should minimally set filename option and Content-Disposition header. If filename is specified, you can leave content type blank - if content type is not set, it is detected from the filename.
new Mailbuild("multipart/mixed").
createChild(false, {filename: "image.png"}).
setHeader("Content-Disposition", "attachment");
Obviously you might want to add Content-Id header as well if you want to reference this attachment from the HTML content.
Most probably you only need to deal with the following multipart types when generating messages:
Examples
One content node and an attachment
multipart/mixed
↳ text/plain
↳ image/png
Content node with referenced attachment (eg. image with Content-Type referenced by cid: url in the HTML)
multipart/related
↳ text/html
↳ image/png
Plaintext and HTML alternatives
multipart/alternative
↳ text/html
↳ text/plain
One content node with referenced attachment and a regular attachment
multipart/mixed
↳ multipart/related
↳ text/plain
↳ image/png
↳ application/x-zip
Alternative content with referenced attachment for HTML and a regular attachment
multipart/mixed
↳ multipart/alternative
↳ text/plain
↳ multipart/related
↳ text/html
↳ image/png
↳ application/x-zip
git clone git@github.com:whiteout-io/mailbuild.git
cd mailbuild
npm install && npm test
grunt dev
go to http://localhost:12345/example/ to run the example
go to http://localhost:12345/test/ to run the tests in your browser of choice
Copyright (c) 2013 Andris Reinman
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of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
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