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authorSteve Manuel <nilslice@gmail.com>2016-11-09 18:09:36 -0800
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+## Email
+
+I needed a way to send email from a [Ponzu](https://ponzu-cms.org) installation
+running on all kinds of systems without shelling out. `sendmail` or `postfix` et
+al are not standard on all systems, and I didn't want to force users to add API
+keys from a third-party just to send something like an account recovery email.
+
+### Usage:
+`$ go get github.com/nilslice/email`
+
+```go
+package main
+
+import (
+ "fmt"
+ "github.com/nilslice/email"
+)
+
+func main() {
+ msg := email.Message{
+ To: "you@server.name", // do not add < > or name in quotes
+ From: "Name <me@server.name>", // ok to format in From field
+ Subject: "A simple email",
+ Body: "Plain text email body. HTML not yet supported, but send a PR!",
+ }
+
+ err := msg.Send()
+ if err != nil {
+ fmt.Println(err)
+ }
+}
+
+```
+
+### Under the hood
+`email` looks at a `Message`'s `To` field, splits the string on the @ symbol and
+issues an MX lookup to find the mail exchange server(s). Then it iterates over
+all the possibilities in combination with commonly used SMTP ports for non-SSL
+clients: `25, 2525, & 587`
+
+It stops once it has an active client connected to a mail server and sends the
+initial information, the message, and then closes the connection.
+
+Currently, this doesn't support any additional headers or `To` field formatting
+(the recipient's email must be the only string `To` takes). Although these would
+be fairly strightforward to implement, I don't need them yet.. so feel free to
+contribute anything you find useful.
+
+#### Warning
+Be cautious of how often you run this locally or in testing, as it's quite
+likely your IP will be blocked/blacklisted if it is not already. \ No newline at end of file