node-mailgun
This library provides simple access to Mailgun's API for node.js applications.
It's MIT licensed, and being used in production over at Hipsell.
Installation
npm install mailgun
Or you can just throw mailgun.js
into your application. There are
no dependendies outside of node's standard library.
Note: master
on Github is going to be untested/unstable at times,
as this is a small enough library that I don't want to bother
with a more complicated repo structure. As such, you should
really only rely on the version of `mailgun` in `npm`, as
I'll only ever push stable and tested code there.
Usage
At the time of writing, Mailgun's documentation is actually incorrect in places, which is unfortunate. As such, I'm going to re-document everything in this README according to the actual way it's implemented innode-mailgun
, which itself
is based off the implementation from Mailgun's github account, and not the API
docs on the site.
Initialization
Access to the API is done through a Mailgun object. It's instantiated like so:var mg = new Mailgun('api-key');
Sending Email
Mailgun's API provides two methods for sending email: raw, and text. Both of them are exposed here.sendText
Sends a simple plain-text email. This also allows for slightly easier sending of Mailgun options, since withsendRaw
you have to set them
in the MIME body yourself.
sendText(sender, recipients, subject, text, [servername=''], [options={}], [callback(err)])
sender
- Sender of the message; this should be a full email address
(e.g. `example@example.com`).
recipients
- A string (example@example.com
) or array of strings (['a@example.com', 'b@example.com']
)
of recipients; these can be email addresses *or* HTTP URLs.
subject
- Message subject
text
- Message body text
servername
- The name of the Mailgun server. If you only have
one server on your Mailgun account, this can be omitted.
Otherwise, it should be set to the server you want to
send from.
options
- Optional parameters. See Mailgun's API docs for details on
these. At the time of writing, the only supported value is
`headers`, which should be a hash of additional MIME headers
you want to send.
callback
- Callback to be fired when the email is done being sent. This
should take a single parameter, `err`, that will be set to
the status code of the API HTTP response code if the email
failed to send; on success, `err` will be `undefined`.
Example
sendText('sender@example.com',
['recipient1@example.com', 'http://example.com/recipient2'],
'Behold the wonderous power of email!',
{'X-Campaign-Id': 'something'},
function(err) { err && console.log(err) });
sendRaw
Sends a raw MIME message. Don't just use this with text; instead, you should either build a MIME message manually or by using some MIME library such as andris9's mailcomposer module https://github.com/andris9/mailcomposer (FWIW mailcomposer is the same module used by the popular nodemailer module http://github.com/andris9/Nodemailer).sendRaw(sender, recipients, rawBody, [servername], [callback(err)])
sender
- Sender of the message; this should be a full email address
(e.g. `example@example.com`)
recipients
- A string (example@example.com
) or array of strings (['a@example.com', 'b@example.com']
)
of recipients; these can be email addresses *or* HTTP URLs.
rawBody
- MIME message to send
servername
- The name of the Mailgun server. If you only have
one server on your Mailgun account, this can be omitted.
Otherwise, it should be set to the server you want to
send from.
callback
- Callback to be fired when the email is done being sent. This
should take a single parameter, `err`, that will be set to
the status code of the API HTTP response code if the email
failed to send; on success, `err` will be `undefined`.
Note: Sending a message via raw MIME lets you use Mailgun's built-in
templating shinies. Check out the [Mailgun Docs](http://documentation.mailgun.net/Documentation/DetailedDocsAndAPIReference#Message_Templates)
for details.
Example
sendRaw('sender@example.com',
['recipient1@example.com', 'http://example.com/recipient2'],
'From: sender@example.com' +
'\nTo: ' + 'recipient1@example.com, http://example.com/recipient2' +
'\nContent-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8' +
'\nSubject: I Love Email' +
'\n\nBecause it\'s just so awesome',
function(err) { err && console.log(err) });
Email Addresses
Mailgun allows sender and recipient email addresses to be formatted in several different ways:'John Doe' <john@example.com>
"John Doe" <john@example.com>
John Doe <john@example.com>
<john@example.com>
john@example.com
Mailgun Headers
Mailgun understands a couple special headers, specified viaoptions
when using
sendText
, or in the MIME headers when using sendRaw
. These are defined
below.
X-Mailgun-Tag
- Used to tag sent emails (defined in Mailgun.MAILGUN_TAG
)
X-Campaign-Id
- Used for tracking campaign data (defined in Mailgun.CAMPAIGN_ID
)
Example
Here's a complete sending example.var Mailgun = require('mailgun').Mailgun;
var mg = new Mailgun('some-api-key');
mg.sendText('example@example.com', ['Recipient 1 <rec1@example.com>', 'rec2@example.com'],
'This is the subject',
'This is the text',
'noreply@example.com', {},
function(err) {
if (err) console.log('Oh noes: ' + err);
else console.log('Success');
});
Routing
Mailgun lets you route incoming email to different destinations. TODO - more docscreateRoute
Creates a new route. TODO - more docscreateRoute(pattern, destination, [callback(err, id)])
TODO - document arguments
deleteRoute
Deletes the route with the specified ID if it exists, otherwise fails silently.deleteRoute(id, [callback(err)])
id - Route ID, as returned by getRoutes()
or createRoute
.
Callback to be fired when the deletion is completed. This callback
takes a single argument, `err`, that will be set to an Error object
if something went wrong with the deletion. If the deletion succeeded, or
no route existed with the specified ID, `err` will be `undefined`.
getRoutes
Gets a list of all routes.getRoutes(callback(err, routes))
callback
- Callback to be fired when the request has finished. This
should take two parameters: `err`, which will hold either an
HTTP error code, or an error string on failure; and `routes`,
which will be a list of routes on success. Routes returned
through this callback will be objects with three fields: `pattern`,
`destination`, and `id`.
Example
getRoutes(function(err, routes) {
if (err) console.log('Error:', err);
for (var i=0; i<routes.length; i++) {
console.log('Route');
console.log(' Pattern:', routes[i].pattern);
console.log(' Destination:', routes[i].destination);
console.log(' Id:', routes[i].id);
}
});