Send email from server code

[Bruce Stuart]

As part of my app, I need to send emails out to users based on a schedule that they set ... For reminders, maintenance to data, etc.

Do you have any examples of other people here that have worked a similar challenge and posted a solution. I'd like to use send grid to do so if possible but don't know how to make the plugin available on the server side, etc.

Thanks in advance,
Bruce

[Jon Haider]

According to the documentation here, you can just use this code:

pre
var sendgrid = require('sendgrid')(api_user, api_key);

var payload = {
to: 'to@example.com',
from: 'from@other.com',
subject: 'Saying Hi',
text:'This is my first email through SendGrid'
}

sendgrid.send(payload, function(err, json) {
if (err) { console.error(err); }
console.log(json);
});
/pre

Seems pretty straightforward to use from the Server code. The other question is how would you set it up to send these emails on a schedule. There's a schedule building on the script side. Maybe this would be a good place to start.

[Bruce Stuart]

Jon,

Agreed - after your response (thanks much!) - I remembered back to one of the tutorials on sending password reminders using server code - and knew that i could find the code in the tutorial as well...

Here's the code from the tutorial....:

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var XHRResponse = XHR.send("POST", "[url=https://api.sendgrid.com/api/mail.send.json]https://api.sendgrid.com/api/mail.sen...[/url]", { 
     "parameters": { 
       "api_user": "Sendgrid username", 
       "api_key": "Sendgrid password", 
       "to": email, 
       "toname": "", 
       "subject": "Password Recovery", 
       "text": "Your recovery code is: " + secretCode + ". Copy and this code into the field provided.", 
       "from": "a href="mailto:admin@company.com" rel="nofollow"admin@company.com/a" 
     } 
   }); 

Thanks again - happy Monday, I'm off implementing the code ...

Bruce