Create a Private Email API for Free

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Top comments (10)

Stan Kukučka • May 9

@steeve this is cool. Good for SSG websites.

Neurabot • May 30

What's SSG acronym ?

Stan Kukučka • May 30

@heyeasley it's a "static site generator".

Neurabot • May 30

Thank. Brilliant.

Steeve • May 10

Thank Stan! Yes, I have 4 SSG websites hosted on CDN, all using the Email API server for 2 years now: it works great for SEO, loading time, almost no maintenance, and cost nothing.

Stan Kukučka • May 10

@steeve I would love to try it. But not clear what to implement on the website side (SSG). The Github repo seems to explain how to run the server only.

Steeve • May 10

On the website side, you just have to make a POST HTTP request to the API server, for instance:

 await fetch('https://mailerapi.domain.com/send', {
     method: 'POST',
     headers: {
          Accept: 'application/json',
          'Content-Type': 'application/json'
     },
     body: JSON.stringify({
         from: "email-sender@domain",
         to: "email-receiver@domain",
         subject: "Email subject",
         text: "Content of the email as text",
         html: "Content of the email as HTML"
    })
})

Notes:

For creating the content of the Email, I searched Email template online, then I adapted with JSFiddle to preview the result.
The from is the email address linked to the SMTP server
The to could be your personal email address