Receiving email in Node.js

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foobar picture foobar · Mar 9, 2011 · Viewed 58.9k times · Source

I see a lot of Node.js modules out there that sends mail through SMTP.

But is there a module to receive mail?

Answer

schaermu picture schaermu · Mar 9, 2011

You are looking for an e-mail client library. Currently, there are 2 options (as mentioned here):

I never used them before, but usage is pretty straight forward (according to the docs). node-imap seems to be the more stable library and it has been tested against gmail. If IMAP is an option in your environment, i'd stick with node-imap.

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