Send an email on Sails.JS using Mailgun? - sails.js

Question

I'm trying to send an email on Sails.JS but I don't know how to do it. I saw a lot of tutorials but none of the tutorials helped me to send an email. I can send an email with the console using curl.
I tried to configure Mailgun but I don't have a Domain. I'm trying to do it free and I'm also very new on Mailgun and Sails.JS. My purpose is to send an email on Sails.JS, but I don't know how.

Answer 1

Follow the steps below to send email from sailsjs using mailgun
Install mailgun module
npm install mailgun-js --save
Create custom variables in config/custom.js file
mailgunDomain: 'yourmailgundomain',
mailgunSecret: 'yourmailgunkey',
mailgunFrom:'yourmailgunfrommail',
Create a helper
sails generate helper send-single-email
var mailgun = require('mailgun-js')({apiKey: sails.config.custom.mailgunSecret, domain: sails.config.custom.mailgunDomain});
module.exports = {
friendlyName: 'Send single email',
description: '',
inputs: {
options:{
type:'json'
}
},
exits: {
},
fn: async function (inputs, exits) {
mailgun.messages().send(inputs.options, function (error, body) {
if(error){
return exits.error(error)
}
// All done.
return exits.success(body);
});
}
};
Call your helper from any controller
await sails.helpers.mail.sendSingleEmail({
to:'destination#email.com',
from:sails.config.custom.mailgunFrom,
subject:'Subject',
text:'Your message'
})

Answer 2

To use Mailgun, you'll need to sign up for an account. (While this is a paid service at higher usage levels, you should be able to use Mailgun as much as you need to in development without having to provide any credit card information.)
After you've created an account, you'll need to add your Mailgun domain and API secret to your custom config. (In development, this will be either in config/custom.js, or in a local.js file you add to your config/ folder. For your staging or production deployment, you'll want to set these using system environment variables -- aka "config variables" in Heroku.)
If you already own a domain for your app, you can follow Mailgun's instructions for configuring a sending domain.
Otherwise, to send emails from this app without configuring a sending domain, you can use the sandbox domain & test API secret that comes with your Mailgun account. Just be sure to configure the authorized recipents for your sandbox domain first, or there will be errors from the endpoints that attempt to send emails.
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