A Tiny Email Sending Webserver
Send emails from any contact form on your website.
WARNING: Utilizing this software requires comfort with setting up NodeJS apps and general dev ops knowledge.
Getting Started
Copy config/index.example.js to config/index.js and edit the values to suit your needs.
Start the express server with npm start
You'll need to deploy this NodeJS app to a cloud computing platform and make it publicly accessible so you can send it a request from your client side.
The Problem
I didn't want to use a third party form creator and go through their servers to send myself emails from a contact form on my own website.
Instead, I decided to deploy this tiny email-sending webserver on the cloud and provide my configurations in config.js. Now, in my client-side form, I simply have to approve the client-side origin as an approved origin in config/index.js and send a POST request to this server and call it a day.
The webserver uses nodemailer and is set up to work with the gmail SMTP protocol. I'd recommend creating a new gmail account for the specific purpose of sending you emails on behalf of your website.
API
This app runs on process.env.PORT or on port 9999 if PORT is not defined in the environment.
POST to /contact
expected body
name : STRING
email : STRING
message: STRING
response
success : BOOLEAN
error : STRING