Is SMTP required? about nodemailer HOT 7 CLOSED

Hi

Nodemailer requires SMTP and can't send e-mails without it. There are other e-mail libs though that use sendmail instead of SMTP (for example https://github.com/aheckmann/node-email) or you can do it yourself with

require("child_process").exec("mail -s \"something\" ... ")

I might add sendmail support to Nodemailer in the future but so far haven't thought about it.

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Well now I thought about it and adding sendmail support seems highly locigal as the main goal for Nodemailer is to send e-mails and the exact way to do it is irrelevant. So whenever I have the free time I'll add the support for it.

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Thanks for the input! I'm still rather new to the email stuff and all I know is that I have postfix setup correctly using DKIM and SPF. So the concept of "connecting" using full SMTP seemed like a waste of resources.

I'll look forward to your additions as having valid UTF-8 email (unlike the library you linked too) is very useful for my apps.

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Hi,

I added sendmail support - just use

nodemailer.sendmail = true;

instead of

nodemailer.SMTP = ...

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Wow, that was quick! Thanks!

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@andris9 how to nodemailer with postfix?

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Wow, this worked for me. I have Postfix/OpenDKIM, so every message I send attaches the DKIM header.
My personal email accounts work great using SMTP/StartTLS. For some reason, Nodemailer wont play nice with it, even though I am connecting to Postfix with the same configuration as Thunderbird.

Switching over to another MTA was the answer for me. By using sendmail, then including the nodemailer DKIM attribute, I am now able to send the correct DKIM signature! Without the sendmail attribute below, it would send the signature twice under the Postfix/OpenDKIM setup, causing a failure.

sendmail: app.nconf.get('ENV') == 'LIVE' ? true : false,
dkim: {
    domainName: 'mydomain.io',
    keySelector: 'mail',
    privateKey: require('fs').readFileSync('data/mail.private')
}

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