Generating Emails Using Node.js
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an email program. It uses mailto URLs to do so. The advantage of this
approach is that you can manually check and edit such emails before
sending them.
Example: mailto:joe@example.com,jane@example.com?subject=hello&body=How%20are%20you%3F
Naturally, the same technique also works with other programming languages:
mailto URL syntax
"mailto:" recipients ( "?" key "=" value ("&" key "=" value)* )?- recipients: comma-separated email addresses (no spaces; Outlook needs semicolons instead of commas)
- value: should be URL-encoded (e.g. space becomes %20)
- key: subject, cc, bcc, body
Example: mailto:joe@example.com,jane@example.com?subject=hello&body=How%20are%20you%3F
Using mailto URLs on Node.js
The npm module openurl allows you to tell the operating system to open a URL. It also comes with a mailto() function that constructs well-formed mailto URLs. Example: require("openurl").mailto(["john@example.com", "jane@example.com"],
{ subject: "Hello!", body: "This is\na generated email!\n" });
Naturally, the same technique also works with other programming languages:
Node.js
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