@strapi/provider-email-nodemailer

Resources

• LICENSE

Links

• Strapi website
• Strapi documentation
• Strapi community on Discord
• Strapi news on Twitter

Installation

# using yarn
yarn add @strapi/provider-email-nodemailer

# using npm
npm install @strapi/provider-email-nodemailer --save

Example

Path - config/plugins.js

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module.exports = ({ env }) => ({
  // ...
  email: {
    config: {
      provider: 'nodemailer',
      providerOptions: {
        host: env('SMTP_HOST', 'smtp.example.com'),
        port: env('SMTP_PORT', 587),
        auth: {
          user: env('SMTP_USERNAME'),
          pass: env('SMTP_PASSWORD'),
        },
        // ... any custom nodemailer options
      },
      settings: {
        defaultFrom: 'hello@example.com',
        defaultReplyTo: 'hello@example.com',
      },
    },
  },
  // ...
});

Check out the available options for nodemailer: https://nodemailer.com/about/

Development mode

You can override the default configurations for specific environments. E.g. for NODE_ENV=development in config/env/development/plugins.js:

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module.exports = ({ env }) => ({
  email: {
    config: {
      provider: 'nodemailer',
      providerOptions: {
        host: 'localhost',
        port: 1025,
        ignoreTLS: true,
      },
    },
  },
});

The above setting is useful for local development with maildev.

Custom authentication mechanisms

It is also possible to use custom authentication methods. Here is an example for a NTLM authentication:

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const nodemailerNTLMAuth = require('nodemailer-ntlm-auth');

module.exports = ({ env }) => ({
  email: {
    config: {
      provider: 'nodemailer',
      providerOptions: {
        host: env('SMTP_HOST', 'smtp.example.com'),
        port: env('SMTP_PORT', 587),
        auth: {
          type: 'custom',
          method: 'NTLM',
          user: env('SMTP_USERNAME'),
          pass: env('SMTP_PASSWORD'),
        },
        customAuth: {
          NTLM: nodemailerNTLMAuth,
        },
      },
      settings: {
        defaultFrom: 'hello@example.com',
        defaultReplyTo: 'hello@example.com',
      },
    },
  },
});

Usage

:warning: The Shipper Email (or defaultfrom) may also need to be changed in the Email Templates tab on the admin panel for emails to send properly

To send an email from anywhere inside Strapi:

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await strapi.plugin('email').service('email').send({
  to: 'someone@example.com',
  from: 'someone2@example.com',
  subject: 'Hello world',
  text: 'Hello world',
  html: `<h4>Hello world</h4>`,
});

The following fields are supported:

Troubleshooting

Check your firewall to ensure that requests are allowed. If it doesn't work with

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port: 465,
secure: true

try using

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port: 587,
secure: false

to test if it works correctly.