I'm using nodemailer for email submission and running from my localhost. I have email services created manually in the following dir /api/email/services/Email.js
const nodemailer = require('nodemailer');
const transporter = nodemailer.createTransport({
host: 'example.com',
port: 587,
secure: false,
auth: {
user: 'user',
pass: 'password',
},
});
module.exports = {
send: (from, to, subject, html) => {
const options = {
from,
to,
subject,
html
};
return transporter.sendMail(options);
},
};
So then I can use it like strapi.services.email.send(from, email, subject, html);
Usually, I write my html template in the code line const html = '<p>Email testing</p>' to be passed in the email services. But I don't want to do this for every email submission from different controllers.
So, I created a html template in /config/email-templates/custom-email.html and tried to call it like const html = path.join(__dirname + '/../../../config/email-templates/custom-email.html');.
When I run it, the email can be sent successfully but it cannot render the html. Instead of a rendered html, it's showing the full path of the custom-email.html as the email message. Is this method possible to achieve in strapi?
Instead of passing the path to the file, you need to pass the actual content. In the first case const html = '<p>Email testing</p>' , you are actually passing the content , but in the second case you are passing the file path.
Modified send method could look something like below:
send: (from, to, subject, htmlpath) => {
const readHTMLFile = (path, callback)=> {
fs.readFile(path, {encoding: "utf-8"}, function (err, html) {
if (err)
return callback(err);
else
return callback(null, html);
});
}
readHTMLFile(htmlpath, function(err, html) {
const options = {
from,
to,
subject,
html
};
return transporter.sendMail(options);
}); }