Sending email

  • SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) allows to send emails
  • MSA (Mail Submission Agent) delivers emails through trusted channels. Handles temporary outages & bounced emails (eg. SendGrid, Gmail)
  • nodemailer is an npm package to send emails by Andris Reinman

HTML Email

  1. app.post('/cart/checkout', (req, res) => {
  2.   var cart = req.session.cart;
  3.   if(!cart) next(new Error('Cart does not exist'));
  4.   var name = req.body.name || '', email = req.body.email || '';
  5.     // input validation
  6.     if (!email.match(VALID_EMAIL_REGEX))
  7.       return res.next(new Error('Invalid email address.'));
  9.     // assign a random cart ID; normally we would use a database ID here
  10.     cart.number = Math.random().toString().replace(/^0\.0*/, '');
  11.   cart.billing = {
  12.     name,
  13.     email
  14.   };
  15.   res. render('email/cart-thank-you', { layout: null, cart: cart },
  16.     (err, html) => {
  17.       if(err) console.log('error in email template');
  18.       mailTransport.sendMail({
  19.         from: '"Meadowlark Travel": info@meadowlarktravel.com',
  20.         to: cart.billing.email,
  21.         subject: 'Thank You for Book your Trip with Meadolark',
  22.         html,
  23.         generateTextFromHtml: true
  24.       }, (err) => {
  25.         if (err) console.error('Unable to send confirmation: ' + err.stackk);
  26.       })
  27.     }
  28.   )
  29.   res.render('cart-thank-you', {cart})
  30. });