Node Js Easiest Ways To Send Free and Paid Email.

Node Js Easiest Ways To Send Free Email.

     there are so many options in node js to send mail. here we got to figure out which way is best suitable for us.you need to figure out our requirement if you are at a beginner state or you just want to experiment. then you can choose a free email service. but if you are running your business through this then you should go for paid service.

Free mail service

Advantages

• no need to pay.
• good at the beginner level.
• we can experiment with it.
• we can understand how the mail system works free of cost.
• most of the free mail libraries allow you to send the MIME file type.

Disadvantages

• cannot verify sent or not. 
• security risk always is there because most of the free service doesn't get frequent security patches.
• no report generated regarding mail sent.
• if you send mail frequently it will be considered as spam.

List of free libraries 

• nodemailer
• emailjs

Example

    almost all websites nowadays making use of email service to notify, marketing, customer relationship, etc. reason can be anything but always at the beginning we Search for free solutions. there are free ways to send email using node.js. I tried almost every single way. most of the time I got suggestions to use nodemailer but it never worked for me. I found the node mailer a little inconsistent and unpredictable. 

but here I brought you something different and the easiest one.

References: https://stackoverflow.com/a/63842902/8539104

Using emailjs 

Install :

  npm i emailjs@1.0.11

Code

var email = require('emailjs');
function sendMail(serverName){
var server = email.server.connect({
  user: 'your-mail',
  password: 'your-password',
  text: serverName+'restarted at '+new Date(),
  host: 'smtp.gmail.com',
  ssl: true
});
server.send({
  from: 'NodeJS',
  to: 'Wilson ',
  cc: '',
  subject: "Server Restarted"
}, function (err, message) {
  console.log(err || message);
});
}
     

Dos :

1) keep the password encrypted

Don'ts : 

1) Don't send emails in a loop or too frequently otherwise Gmail will consider that you are

spamming and it will block your email address for a few hours.

Free + Paid mail service

       there are some paid mail service providers in the market some of them charge money at the beginning but most of them offer a plan of the trial period or some of them add limits of free mail if you cross a certain limit then you need pay otherwise within the limit you can use that service for free. limits of free mail different for different service providers I have seen it varying between 100-200 free emails per month. 

Advantages

• guarantee service.
• you get a report of all sent mail.
• to try we get some monthly free messages.
• most of mail service provider takes care of security measures.
• if you follow a given guideline then there are fewer chances of receiving a spam tag.

Disadvantages

• not found

List of Libraries

• sendergrid
• postmarkapp