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Discussion on: Sending Client-side Emails using EmailJs in ReactJs App

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Sergey Khomushin

Indeed, someone could copy your code, but they will only be able to send your templates, with your content, and will not be able to send a custom email with their own content (spam). Which is absolutely not interesting for spammers. A better way to think of EmailJS in terms of security is not as a service that allows you to send email from Javascript, but rather as a service that allows you to create a predefined set of emails via the dashboard, and then just trigger the emails from the Javascript. This is quite similar to how emails are usually sent via a proprietary server code, and also to the way products like Intercom or customer.io are working.

Additionally, we've also developed various tools to prevent abuse – for instance, we have IP based rate limits to prevent bots from spamming, a whitelist of origin, and also support reCAPTCHA tests to make sure that a human is sending the email (although it's up to the developer to turn this feature on).

Please note, EmailJS send endpoints don't require authentication, so you can make the call to our API without worrying about security. The keys in the network tab are public keys.

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Adarsh Goyal

it supports only reCAPTCHA v2 not v3 why ? @xr0master

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Sergey Khomushin

In order not to go deep into the reasons, I will simply answer that there are several problems.

  • V3 does not have a checkbox, and the invisible captcha is difficult to install
  • V3 sometimes gives a low scope for real people.

As a result, our customers will contact our support team instead of Google support, which is why we decided not to add it yet.

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Adarsh Goyal

ok

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PhyberApex

I see! Thanks for chiming in. Good to see even the devs of the service care enough to address possible issues! Kudos!

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Sergey Khomushin

These are issues of absolutely any public API. The same public API from Google Maps is no exception, as well as someone's own development. Unfortunately. Therefore, we do our best to make the price of hacking more expensive than the profit.