Using this together with email-templates

[cfmdmedia]

Hi,
is there a way to use this library together with https://github.com/forwardemail/email-templates?
Because I want to send pre-designed HTML Emails generated with dynamic parameters by Pug.
The sendMail function in your code only accepts parameters for building the HTML Email there.

Also I want to separate Server & Client in two separated Docker containers.Do I have to pay special attention to anything?

Do you have a real example of use for this library?

Thanks a lot!

[dr.dimitru]

Hello @cfmdmedia ,

Yes, only if you wish to render emails using email-templates, and then send using mail-time.

Let me know if you need more details

[dr.dimitru]

Also I want to separate Server & Client in two separated Docker containers.

This is exactly the case for this library

Do I have to pay special attention to anything?

Just make sure they are using same MongoDB, and client is set as {type: 'client'}, same for server. Let me know if you have more questions

[dr.dimitru]

Do you have a real example of use for this library?

Using it for years since it's first release. There's evidence other folks using it too.
Issues were pretty active at the some point, now it's in a stable state

[cfmdmedia]

Thanks for the quick answer.
email-templates can return a string with the HTML, but I'm not sure what to pass as a template in the sendMail function, because the string contains a complete HTML page. Should I just pass {{{html}}} then?
Is the mail queue actually stored in a separate collection in MongoDB or does it influence existing collections?
Thank you again.

[dr.dimitru]

@cfmdmedia

email-templates can return a string with the HTML

Just use returned HTML string as { html } option (no template needed):

const mailQueue = new MailTime({
    db, // MongoDB
    type: 'server', // server or client
    transports, // your SMTP and/or direct transports
    from(transport) {
      // To pass spam-filters `from` field should be correctly set
      // for each transport, check `transport` object for more options
      return '"Awesome App" <' + transport.options.from + '>';
    }
});

// as simple as:
mailQueue.sendMail({
  to: '[e-mail]',
  subject,
  html: htmlGeneratedByEmailTemplate // <-- here
});

Is the mail queue actually stored in a separate collection in MongoDB or does it influence existing collections?

Yes, separate collection. See this line of code.

[cfmdmedia]

Thanks again for the quick help!

[dr.dimitru]

@cfmdmedia I'm glad this was quickly solved

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