Use Nodemailer to send an email

In this blog, we will learn how to send emails using Nodemailer. This is a module that allows us to easily send emails in NodeJS applications.

What is Nodemailer?

• Nodemailer is a simple module to send emails for NodeJS applications.
• It is a single module with zero dependencies.
• Using Nodemailer, we can send different types of data through the emails like plain text, HTML content, etc.
• We can also attach pdf, word documents to our email.
• It uses different types of transport methods like SES transport, SMTP transport, etc. SMTP transport method is used as default transport.
• It focuses heavily on Security.
• It has Unicode support for any characters, including emojis.
• It has OAuth2 authentication.

Limitations

• It requires NodeJS version 6.0.0 or newer.
• Bulk emails are not allowed to be sent.

Implementing Nodemailer

Prerequisites

• NodeJS v6.0.0 or newer

> Configure Gmail SMTP to send emails through Nodemailer