Updating config management for SMTP as well as finalising the work around generating and sending emails.

packages/worker/src/api/controllers/admin/configs.js

@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ const {
   getConfigParams,
   determineScopedConfig,
 } = require("@budibase/auth").db
+const { Configs } = require("../../../constants")
+const email = require("../../../utilities/email")
 
 const GLOBAL_DB = StaticDatabases.GLOBAL.name
 
@@ -22,6 +24,13 @@ exports.save = async function(ctx) {
     })
   }
 
+  // verify the configuration
+  switch (type) {
+    case Configs.SMTP:
+      await email.verifyConfig(configDoc)
+      break;
+  }
+
   try {
     const response = await db.post(configDoc)
     ctx.body = {

packages/worker/src/api/controllers/admin/email.js

@@ -1,10 +1,14 @@
 const CouchDB = require("../../../db")
 const { StaticDatabases, determineScopedConfig } = require("@budibase/auth").db
-const { EmailTemplatePurpose, TemplateTypes, Configs } = require("../../../constants")
+const {
+  EmailTemplatePurpose,
+  TemplateTypes,
+  Configs,
+} = require("../../../constants")
 const { getTemplateByPurpose } = require("../../../constants/templates")
 const { getSettingsTemplateContext } = require("../../../utilities/templates")
 const { processString } = require("@budibase/string-templates")
-const nodemailer = require("nodemailer")
+const { createSMTPTransport } = require("../../../utilities/email")
 
 const GLOBAL_DB = StaticDatabases.GLOBAL.name
 const TYPE = TemplateTypes.EMAIL
@@ -14,15 +18,7 @@ const FULL_EMAIL_PURPOSES = [
   EmailTemplatePurpose.PASSWORD_RECOVERY,
 ]
 
-function createSMTPTransport(config) {
+async function buildEmail(purpose, email, user) {
-  const transport = nodemailer.createTransport({
-    port: config.port,
-    host: config.host,
-
-  })
-}
-
-exports.buildEmail = async (email, user, purpose) => {
   // this isn't a full email
   if (FULL_EMAIL_PURPOSES.indexOf(purpose) === -1) {
     throw `Unable to build an email of type ${purpose}`
@@ -37,7 +33,7 @@ exports.buildEmail = async (email, user, purpose) => {
   const context = {
     ...(await getSettingsTemplateContext()),
     email,
-    user,
+    user: user || {},
   }
 
   body = await processString(body, context)
@@ -51,14 +47,24 @@ exports.buildEmail = async (email, user, purpose) => {
 }
 
 exports.sendEmail = async ctx => {
-  const { groupId, email, purpose } = ctx.request.body
+  const { groupId, email, userId, purpose } = ctx.request.body
   const db = new CouchDB(GLOBAL_DB)
   const params = {}
   if (groupId) {
     params.group = groupId
   }
   params.type = Configs.SMTP
+  let user = {}
+  if (userId) {
+    user = db.get(userId)
+  }
   const config = await determineScopedConfig(db, params)
   const transport = createSMTPTransport(config)
+  const message = {
+    from: config.from,
+    subject: config.subject,
+    to: email,
+    html: await buildEmail(purpose, email, user),
+  }
+  await transport.sendMail(message)
 }
-

packages/worker/src/api/routes/admin/configs.js

@@ -10,7 +10,9 @@ function smtpValidation() {
   return Joi.object({
     port: Joi.number().required(),
     host: Joi.string().required(),
-    from: Joi.string().email().required(),
+    from: Joi.string()
+      .email()
+      .required(),
     secure: Joi.boolean().optional(),
     selfSigned: Joi.boolean().optional(),
     auth: Joi.object({

packages/worker/src/api/routes/admin/email.js

@@ -15,7 +15,10 @@ function buildEmailSendValidation() {
   }).required().unknown(true))
 }
 
-router
+router.post(
-  .post("/api/admin/email/send", buildEmailSendValidation(), controller.sendEmail)
+  "/api/admin/email/send",
+  buildEmailSendValidation(),
+  controller.sendEmail
+)
 
 module.exports = router

packages/worker/src/utilities/email.js

@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+const nodemailer = require("nodemailer")
+
+exports.createSMTPTransport = (config) => {
+  const options = {
+    port: config.port,
+    host: config.host,
+    secure: config.secure || false,
+    auth: config.auth,
+  }
+  if (config.selfSigned) {
+    options.tls = {
+      rejectUnauthorized: false,
+    }
+  }
+  return nodemailer.createTransport(options)
+}
+
+exports.verifyConfig = async config => {
+  const transport = exports.createSMTPTransport(config)
+  await transport.verify()
+}