How can i send emails without a server ? Only front-end Javascript with sendgrid or

Question

i was wondering lately how i could send emails with only a front-end language like Javascript through Email as a Service apps like sendgrid or mandrill or so.

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Answer 1

An alternative is to let each user use his or her own outgoing mail server, by using a mailto: link, which allows you to specify the header information and also a quasi-header named “body”, which puts the content you want into the message body.

Answer 2

Several suugestions

• dropbox forms via jotbox includes encryption and a paid SSL option
• sendgrid using parse cloud instructions
• third party service, eg 123contactform
• use a not-so-secure php form with extra javascript to mask the email address, see responses on this thread including Dave Jarvis' php code

Answer 3

You could use a serverless architecture with AWS Lambda functions written in JavaScript.

Answer 4

You can use FormSpree. Just provide the url in form action.

https://formspree.io/

Answer 5

You can use Smtp.js or emailjs for frontend.

Answer 6

If you'd like to keep the key secure you can use something like Aerobatic's HTTP Proxy to specify the key and proxy through the server environment.