Set up Nodemailer

[michellelin1]

Instructions

We’re going to use nodeMailer to notify the admins of AISS when someone has created an account and is waiting for approval. In this task, you’re going to…

• Set up the nodeMailer route
• Set up the transporter

Notes

• The credentials for the account to send emails from are already in the backend .env.
  • The password on the .env is an App password to give nodeMailer access to the account, not the actual Google password.
• The transporter will throw an error if the given email does not exist.
• The verifyToken is a part of the authentication process, so it can be omitted until authentication is done.

Acceptance Criteria

• The route is able to receive the email template and send the email to the email passed through the payload.

Resources

• Nodemailer Documentation
• PNP Nodemailer Example
• PNP Transporter Example

links to frontend issue ctc-uci/aiss-frontend#2

As always feel free to message Michael and Michelle if you have any questions