How do I send email with JavaScript without opening the mail client?

Question

I\'m writing a HTML page with a registration button that should just silently send an email without opening the local mail client. Here is my HTML:

Answer 1

You need a server-side support to achieve this. Basically your form should be posted (AJAX is fine as well) to the server and that server should connect via SMTP to some mail provider and send that e-mail.

Even if it was possible to send e-mails directly using JavaScript (that is from users computer), the user would still have to connect to some SMTP server (like gmail.com), provide SMTP credentials, etc. This is normally handled on the server-side (in your application), which knows these credentials.

Answer 2

There needs to be some type of backend framework to send the email. This can be done via PHP/ASP.NET, or with the local mail client. If you want the user to see nothing, the best way is to tap into those by an AJAX call to a separate send_email file.

Answer 3

You cannot cause the user's browser to send email silently. That would be a horrible security problem as any website could use their system as a spam relay and/or harvest their email address.

You need to make an HTTP request to a server side process (written in the language of your choice) which sends the mail from your server.

Answer 4

I think you can use smtpjs.com

Answer 5

You need to do it directly on a server. But a better way is using PHP. I have heard that PHP has a special code that can send e-mail directly without opening the mail client.

Answer 6

You can't do it with client side script only... you could make an AJAX call to some server side code that will send an email...