I am trying to implement nodemailer in my nodejs app to send emails.

Here is my code

var express = require('express');
var nodemailer = require('node-mailer');

var app = express();
app.post('/contact/send', function(req, res) {
var transporter = nodemailer.createTransport({
    service: 'Gmail',
    auth: {
        user: 'myEmailIdHere',
        pass: 'myPassword'
    }
});

var mailOptions = {
    from: 'myName <myEmailIdHere>',
    to: 'myOtherEmailIdHere',
    subject: 'Website Submission',
    text: 'You have a submission with the following details... Name: ' + req.body.name + ' Email: ' + req.body.email + ' Message: ' + req.body.message,
    html: '<p>You have a submission with the following details...</p><ul><li>Name: ' + req.body.name + '</li><li>Email: ' + req.body.email + '</li><li>Message: ' + req.body.message + '</li></ul>'
};
transporter.sendMail(mailOptions, function(error, info) {
    if (error) {
        console.log(error);
        res.redirect('/');
    } else {
        console.log('Message Sent: ' + info.response);
        res.redirect('/');
    }
})

After submitting the form, i am getting the error as

"TypeError: nodemailer.createTransport is not a function"

Can someone help me figure out how to make the code work with nodemailer?

I am trying to implement nodemailer in my nodejs app to send emails.

Here is my code

var express = require('express');
var nodemailer = require('node-mailer');

var app = express();
app.post('/contact/send', function(req, res) {
var transporter = nodemailer.createTransport({
    service: 'Gmail',
    auth: {
        user: 'myEmailIdHere',
        pass: 'myPassword'
    }
});

var mailOptions = {
    from: 'myName <myEmailIdHere>',
    to: 'myOtherEmailIdHere',
    subject: 'Website Submission',
    text: 'You have a submission with the following details... Name: ' + req.body.name + ' Email: ' + req.body.email + ' Message: ' + req.body.message,
    html: '<p>You have a submission with the following details...</p><ul><li>Name: ' + req.body.name + '</li><li>Email: ' + req.body.email + '</li><li>Message: ' + req.body.message + '</li></ul>'
};
transporter.sendMail(mailOptions, function(error, info) {
    if (error) {
        console.log(error);
        res.redirect('/');
    } else {
        console.log('Message Sent: ' + info.response);
        res.redirect('/');
    }
})

After submitting the form, i am getting the error as

"TypeError: nodemailer.createTransport is not a function"

Can someone help me figure out how to make the code work with nodemailer?

• javascript
• node.js
• express
• node-modules
• nodemailer

3 Answers 3

use this var nodemailer = require('nodemailer');

Seems you have done

npm install node-mailer --save

which is this library : https://www.npmjs./package/node-mailer

While you are trying to follow instructions for this library : https://www.npmjs./package/nodemailer

For your code to work do

npm install nodemailer --save

Then require module as

var nodemailer = require('nodemailer')

Do not put hyphen between node-mailer it is a different module.

nodemailer and node-mailer are two different modules. You should use the right one.

var nodemailer = require('nodemailer');

Also, make sure nodemailer is installed using npm i