express-email with nodemailer

description

This is a simple email sender using express and nodemailer

usage

1. clone this repo
2. run npm install
3. create a .env file in the root directory and add the following:

MAIL_DRIVER=smtp
MAIL_HOST=smtp.gmail.com
MAIL_PORT=587
MAIL_USERNAME=your email address
MAIL_PASSWORD=your password
MAIL_ENCRYPTION=tls
MAIL_FROM=your email address
MAIL_FROM_NAME=your name

4. run npm start
5. open http://localhost:3000/v1/email/send in your postman
6. send a POST request with the following body:

{
    "to": "your email address",
    "subject": "your subject",
    "text": "your text"
}

7. check your email

reference

• nodemailer
• express
• body-parser
• dotenv
• nodemon
• postman

author

• GitHub
• LinkedIn

version

1.0.0