textmail

Send emails using mailgun and plain text templates

installation

$ npm install textmail

usage

First create a mailer with some configuration:

var TextMail = require('textmail');
 
var mailer = TextMail({
    // mailgun domain here
    domain:'...',
 
    // mailgun key here
    key:'...',
 
    // the folder your templates live
    template_root:'...',
 
    // some base variables
    vars:{
        num:10
    }
})

Now you have a mailer - you can create 'emails' - these are functions that can be run to send the content to a recipient.

 
// create an email object that will render 'contact.txt' and 
// send it to 3 people with 'Contact Form Submission' as the subject
 
var contact = mailer.create('/contact.ejs', 'Contact Form Submission', [
    'admin1@domain.com',
    'admin2@domain2.net'
]);
 
app.use('/contactsubmit', function(req, res){
 
    var data = {
        'title':'Contact page'
    }
 
    data.timestamp = new Date().getTime();
 
    contact(data.email, data, function(error){
        console.log('emails sent');
    })
})
 

The templates are ejs files - this means you can pass data from the vars:

This is an email template for <%= title %>

It can also access root vars: <%= num %>

api

TextMail(options)

Create a new mailer with the following options:

• domain - your mailgun account domain
• key - your mailgun account key
• template_root - the folder to search for templates
• vars - vars to render for every template

var email = mailer.create(template, subject, to_emails)

Create a new email that will be sent to each email in the to_emails array.

The template can be a path relative to the 'template_root' or can be a full path.

The template is rendered using ejs.

email(from_address, vars, callback)

Send the email by running it as a function passing the from address and the extra variables to render into the template

email(from_address, to, vars, callback)

Add an extra email (or array of emails) to the list of address the email is sent to

license

MIT