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SMTP

A collection of 6 posts

Sending multiple emails in the same thread

Sending multiple emails in the same thread

Sometimes you might want to send emails that should end up in the same email thread, for example, follow-up emails. Surprisingly, there is (almost) no server-side threading support. Instead, everything related to threads is handled on the client side. In this case, we would have to compose our emails in

Mail merge with EmailEngine

While EmailEngine makes it easy to send regular email through the user's SMTP server with REST API calls, it is also possible to use mail merge. To use it, you need to drop all the regular To/Cc/Bcc addresses from the API request and replace them with an array

Sending replies and forwarding emails

While EmailEngine (a headless email client that allows accessing IMAP and SMTP accounts over REST API) can send regular emails where you provide all the details for the message yourself (recipients, subject line, and so on), two special modes help to achieve email-client-like behavior. These are "reply" and "forward" email

Nodemailer has zero dependencies

This post is not about EmailEngine but another software project I maintain – Nodemailer. It's a nifty module for Node.js (as you might assume from the name) that allows to send out emails. And in this post, I'll explain how and why I ended up having zero dependencies for Nodemailer

Using the EmailEngine API to send email

In this blog post, I'm walking through the required steps to register an account with EmailEngine and sending an email from that account. Step 1. Register a new account Register a new account with IMAP and SMTP settings (reference [https://api.emailengine.app/#operation/postV1Account]) curl -XPOST "http://127.0.

Transactional email service

EmailEngine is a self-hosted open-source application that provides a REST interface on top of any email account you can access, to read and send emails. Combining these features would give you a similar email sending experience you'd get from a transactional email service.