How to create an automated email sender

readme.md

Instructions for emailing sillyness.

You will need a gmail account, best of creating a new one, I just appended robot* in front of my normal one. You then need to go to https://myaccount.google.com/lesssecureapps and switch this on (hence it best to create a new account).

start a new node app

node init -y

install the required dependencies

npm install express nodemailer node-cron

create the index.js file (see in gist)

then run the fun

node index.js

index.js

const cron = require("node-cron");
const express = require("express");
const nodemailer = require("nodemailer");

const app = express();

let transporter = nodemailer.createTransport({
  service: "gmail",
  auth: {
    user: "<robot.your.name@gmail.com>",
    pass: "<password-here>"
  }
});

/*
* * * * * *
| | | | | |
| | | | | day of week
| | | | month
| | | day of month
| | hour
| minute
second ( optional )

*/

cron.schedule("* * * * *", function() {
  let mailOptions = {
    from: "", // sender address
    to: "", // list of receivers
    subject: "Subject of your email", // Subject line
    html: "<p>Your html here</p>" // plain text body
  };

  transporter.sendMail(mailOptions, function(err, info) {
    if (err) console.log(err);
    else console.log(info);
  });
});

app.listen(3128);