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Need a advise regarding why to use SMTP?

I made a contact form on my website and need to submit it to my proton mail using Node.JS and express.

Do I need an SMTP server? Can I do it without SMTP or not? Because it'll be very focused and not that big. It'll only send forms to my email.

Solution

  • The Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) is an internet standard communication protocol for electronic mail transmission. Mail servers and other message transfer agents use SMTP to send and receive mail messages.

    SMTP is a mail transport system and yes, is required to send email.

    You can either set up a send-only mail server (e.g Postfix Mailserver), or use the general purpose sendmail if you are just sending email to yourself.

    You can also use your own email/password with nodejs, if you use gmail/yahoo etc, as long as you get your settings right.