sabad66
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13 years ago hey Matt, I'm working on an emailing library right now that you can use for this. It's ready to go, just waiting for the application config file feature to be puleld into the mainline since it will depend on it (for the email password). Here's the API for it that I'm going to put in the README:
Email Utilities
A library that can be used to send emails on behalf of the system. It is specifically set up for use with a gmail account. The application configuration file (config.js) should have the following settings defined in order for this to work: email_account: "someone@something.com" // civicconnect@gmail.com is set-up and ready to use email_password: "****" // If you don't know the password, email me at sabad66@hotmail.com to find out smtp_server_name: "smtp.gmail.com" // That is the smtp server (outgoing mail server) for gmail
Email Utilities API
Load the email utilities library: var emailUtil = require('emailUtil');
- emailUtil.sendPlainTextEmailToUserId(userId, subject, body, function(error, success) {}) - Sends a plain text email to the given userId. The body parameter should be plain text (i.e. no html tags)
- emailUtil.sendHTMLEmailToUserId(userId, subject, body, function(error, success) {}) - Sends an HTML formatted email to the given userId. The body parameter may contain html formatting (i.e body = 'hi friend!')
- emailUtil.sendPlainTextEmailToAddress(toEmailAddress, subject, body, function(error, success) {}) - Sends a plain text email to the given email address. The body parameter should be plain text (i.e. no html tags)
- emailUtil.sendHTMLEmailToAddress(toEmailAddress, subject, body, function(error, success) {}) - Sends an HTML formatted email to the given email address. The body parameter may contain html formatting (i.e body = 'hi friend!')
Notes
Please be careful not to commit your config.js file with the password in there.
Sometimes emails take a few seconds to send, so it's probably better NOT to render any page responses inside the callbacks. Instead, render the page outside the callback like this:
emailUtil.sendPlainTextEmailToUserId(999, 'Confirm Email', 'Please click the follwoing link to confirm your email.', function(error, success) {
if (error)
util.log('error sending the confirmation email');
else if (!success)
util.log('Email was not sent successfully');
else
util.log('Confirmation email sent successfully!');
});
response.render('confirmationSent.html');Other things besides rendering response should probably still be inside the callback function.
mmalinao
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