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node-red-contrib-email
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node-red-contrib-email
SMTP email node for Node-RED
Installation
You can install by using the Menu - Manage Palette option, or running the following command in your Node-RED user directory - typically ~/.node-red
cd ~/.node-red
npm install --save node-red-node-email
Requirements
NodeJS version >= 6.0.0
Node-RED >= 2.0.0
SMTP Config Node
- host - is the hostname or ip address to connect to
- port - is the port to connect to
- secure – if true the connection will use TLS when connecting to server. If false (the default) then TLS is used if server supports the STARTTLS extension. In most cases set this value to true if you are connecting to port 465. For port 587 or 25 keep it false
- auth - authentication 'none' or 'login'
Send Mail Node Input
- from - The email address of the sender. All email addresses can be plain ‘sender@server.com’ or formatted '“Sender Name” sender@server.com', see Address object for details
- to - Comma separated list or an array of recipients email addresses that will appear on the To: field
- cc - Comma separated list or an array of recipients email addresses that will appear on the Cc: field
- bcc - Comma separated list or an array of recipients email addresses that will appear on the Bcc: field
- subject - The subject of the email
- text - The plaintext version of the message as an Unicode string, Buffer, Stream or an attachment-like object ({path: ‘/var/data/…'})
- html - The HTML version of the message as an Unicode string, Buffer, Stream or an attachment-like object ({path: ‘http://…'})
- attachments - An array of attachment objects (see Using attachments for details). Attachments can be used for embedding images as well.
msg.payload will used as mail.text or mail.html, depending on content-type field is set to text, html or amp.
Use the node form to define the fields or let the form fields empty and use msg.email instead:
msg.email = {
from: "foo@example.com",
to: "bar@example.com",
subject: "Test",
text: "This is my mail",
attachments: [
{
// utf-8 string as an attachment
filename: "text1.txt",
content: "hello world!",
},
{
// binary buffer as an attachment
filename: "text2.txt",
content: new Buffer("hello world!", "utf-8"),
},
{
// file on disk as an attachment
filename: "text3.txt",
path: "/path/to/file.txt", // stream this file
},
{
// filename and content type is derived from path
path: "/path/to/file.txt",
},
{
// stream as an attachment
filename: "text4.txt",
content: fs.createReadStream("file.txt"),
},
{
// define custom content type for the attachment
filename: "text.bin",
content: "hello world!",
contentType: "text/plain",
},
{
// use URL as an attachment
filename: "license.txt",
path: "https://raw.github.com/nodemailer/nodemailer/master/LICENSE",
},
{
// encoded string as an attachment
filename: "text1.txt",
content: "aGVsbG8gd29ybGQh",
encoding: "base64",
},
{
// data uri as an attachment
path: "data:text/plain;base64,aGVsbG8gd29ybGQ=",
},
{
// use pregenerated MIME node
raw:
"Content-Type: text/plain\r\n" +
"Content-Disposition: attachment;\r\n" +
"\r\n" +
"Hello world!",
},
],
};
example for amp message
msg.email = {
from: "Nodemailer <example@nodemailer.com>",
to: "Nodemailer <example@nodemailer.com>",
subject: "AMP4EMAIL message",
text: "For clients with plaintext support only",
html: "<p>For clients that do not support AMP4EMAIL or amp content is not valid</p>",
amp: `<!doctype html>
<html ⚡4email>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<style amp4email-boilerplate>body{visibility:hidden}</style>
<script async src="https://cdn.ampproject.org/v0.js"></script>
<script async custom-element="amp-anim" src="https://cdn.ampproject.org/v0/amp-anim-0.1.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<p>Image: <amp-img src="https://cldup.com/P0b1bUmEet.png" width="16" height="16"/></p>
<p>GIF (requires "amp-anim" script in header):<br/>
<amp-anim src="https://cldup.com/D72zpdwI-i.gif" width="500" height="350"/></p>
</body>
</html>`,
};
Send Mail Node Output
output msg.payload includes the result, the exact format depends on the transport mechanism used
msg.payload.messageId- most transports should return the final Message-Id value used with this propertymsg.payload.envelopeincludes the envelope object for the messagemsg.payload.acceptedis an array returned by SMTP transports (includes recipient addresses that were accepted by the server)msg.payload.rejectedis an array returned by SMTP transports (includes recipient addresses that were rejected by the server)msg.payload.pendingis an array returned by Direct SMTP transport. Includes recipient addresses that were temporarily rejected together with the server response response is a string returned by SMTP transports and includes the last SMTP response from the server
FAQs
SMTP email node for Node-RED
The npm package node-red-contrib-email receives a total of 106 weekly downloads. As such, node-red-contrib-email popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that node-red-contrib-email demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 0 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
Package last updated on 29 Apr 2023
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