Sending email
In many platforms, the ability to send email comes standard, but the Node approach leaves the email functionality to the developer.
Thankfully, there are some excellent module creators in the Node community who have already created modules for sending email. In this recipe, we'll be using the well-featured third-party nodemailer module to send an imaginary newsletter to a list of recipients.
Getting ready
In order to send an email, we'll need a functioning SMTP server that we can connect to. In a later recipe, we'll be creating our own SMTP server, but for now we'll have to acquire some details of our SMTP to use our client with.
If we have an email address, we have access to an SMTP server. We can find out the SMTP host address from our provider.
If required we can obtain access to an SMTP server by signing up for a Gmail account (at mail.google.com). Once we have an account, we can use smtp.gmail.com as the host, with our Gmail address as the username.
We'll create a new folder...
