Email Sender with Node.js

Easily scalable & automated Emailing App.

Email Sender App built using:

• Node.js
• Nodemailer
• Dotenv
• File System (fs)
• Path
• PM2 Process Management (daemon process manager)
• Node-Cron

Install dependencies, create an addressBook.json & .env file (the addressBook.json receives email data as an array), add the necessary user email & password data to the .env file, and change the appropiate variables in the emailSender.js file so that the app can grab files from the correct directory.

To install & run the app, use the following command:

npm install
node emailSender.js

To run the app in the background, check to see if PM2 is installed locallly on your machine, if not, install it globally using the following command:

npm install pm2 -g

To run the app in the background, use the following command:

pm2 start emailSender.js

To stop the app from running in the background, use the following command:

pm2 stop emailSender.js

To check the status of the app, use the following command:

pm2 status