strapi-provider-email-nodemailer

This release of the nodemailer provider for Strapi is compatible with Strapi 3.x

Installation

npm i strapi-provider-email-nodemailer-tmpl

Configuration

In your config/plugins.js file:

module.exports = ({ env }) => ({
  email: {
    provider: 'nodemailer',
    providerOptions: {
      host: env('SMTP_HOST', 'smtp.example.com'),
      port: env('SMTP_PORT', 587),
      auth: {
        user: env('SMTP_USERNAME'),
        pass: env('SMTP_PASSWORD'),
      }
      // ... any custom nodemailer options
    },
    settings: {
      defaultFrom: 'hello@example.com',
      defaultReplyTo: 'hello@example.com',
      //absolute path where templates are stored
      tmplRoot: path.join(__dirname, 'emails'),
      tmplName: 'base'
    }
  }
});

Check out the available options for nodemailer: https://nodemailer.com/about/

Development mode

You can override the default configurations for specific environments. E.g. for NODE_ENV=development in config/env/development/plugins.js:

module.exports = ({ env }) => ({
  email: {
    provider: 'nodemailer',
    providerOptions: {
      host: 'localhost',
      port: 1025,
      ignoreTLS: true,
    },
  },
});

The above setting is useful for local development with maildev.

Custom authentication mechanisms

It is also possible to use custom authentication methods. Here is an example for a NTLM authentication:

const nodemailerNTLMAuth = require('nodemailer-ntlm-auth');

module.exports = ({ env }) => ({
  email: {
    provider: 'nodemailer',
    providerOptions: {
      host: env('SMTP_HOST', 'smtp.example.com'),
      port: env('SMTP_PORT', 587),
      auth: {
        type: 'custom',
        method: 'NTLM',
        user: env('SMTP_USERNAME'),
        pass: env('SMTP_PASSWORD')
      },
      customAuth: {
        NTLM: nodemailerNTLMAuth
      }
    },
    settings: {
      defaultFrom: 'hello@example.com',
      defaultReplyTo: 'hello@example.com',
    }
  }
});

Usage

To send an email from anywhere inside Strapi:

await strapi.plugins['email'].services.email.send({
    to: 'someone@example.com',
    from: 'someone2@example.com',
    subject:  'Hello world',
    text:  'Hello world',
    html:  `<h4>Hello world</h4>`
  });

The following fields are supported:

Field	Description
from	Email address of the sender
to	Comma separated list or an array of recipients
replyTo	Email address to which replies are sent
cc	Comma separated list or an array of recipients
bcc	Comma separated list or an array of recipients
subject	Subject of the email
text	Plaintext version of the message
html	HTML version of the message
attachments	Array of objects See: https://nodemailer.com/message/attachments/

Troubleshooting

Check your firewall to ensure that requests are allowed. If it doesn't work with

port: 465,
secure: true

try using

port: 587,
secure: false

to test if it works correctly.

Links

• Strapi website
• Strapi community on Slack
• Strapi news on Twitter

Resources

• MIT License