This nodejs (Express JS) application will be used as mail gateway to hide sensitive information from the frontend. It is built as API gateway which receives a post request and enriches the message with the sensitive data and forwards everything to the mail gateway via SMTP provider.
This repository was originally forked from 🔗 schadokar/nodemailer-app and enhanced with a couple of code snippets and a MCaptcha integration.
Clone the repository to your local folder:
git clone <reponame>
Install the nodejs dependencies with npm.
npm i
Configure the application by using environment variables or a .env file with the following parameters.
SMTP_USER=<SMTP_USER>
SMTP_PASS=<SMTP_PASSWORD>
SMTP_DOMAIN=<SMTP_DOMAIN>
SMTP_PORT=<Port to be used e.g. 25>
[email protected],
MCAPTCHA_SECRET=verylongstringoflettersandnumbers
MCAPTCHA_URL=https://yoururl.tld/Dev mode:
npm run dev
Productive:
npm run start
POST http://<hostname>:3000/api/v1/sendmail
REQUESTBODY
{
"from": "[email protected]",
"subject": "Subject for the mail",
"message": {
"test1":"test1Value",
"test2":"test2Value"
},
"captcha_token": "yourretrievedtokenfromMCaptcha",
"captcha_sitekey": "yourpublicsitekeyfromMCaptcha",
}