Attachment is not working properly in node-mailer?

Question

Hi Am using node mailer to send mails.. It works fine with out attachment.But whenever i give some attachment it takes the default content 'data' as its content.. How should i avoid this..

My node mail function is looks like this...

function sendMail(toMailId, subject, body) {
    for (var i = 0; i < 1; i++) {
        email.send({
            ssl: true,
            host: DbConfig.mailConfig.host,              
            port: DbConfig.mailConfig.port,             
            domain: DbConfig.mailConfig.domain,        
            to:  DbConfig.mailConfig.to,
            from: DbConfig.mailConfig.from,
            subject: subject,
            reply_to: DbConfig.mailConfig.reply_to,
            body: body,
            authentication: DbConfig.mailConfig.authentication, 
            username: DbConfig.mailConfig.username,            
            password: DbConfig.mailConfig.password,
             attachments: [  
        {   
            filename: "helloworld.txt",
            content : 'data'    
        }   
        ],
           debug: DbConfig.mailConfig.debug                 
        },
  function (err, result) {
      if (err) { console.log(err); }
  });
    }
}

My problem is when i open the attachment after mail receives in my inbox, it simply shows data in the body. other than that it displays nothing. when i remove content means it throws error..

My Json will look like this:

{ 
 "mongodbUrl":"mongodb://USERID:PWD@localhost:27017/DBNAME",
 "mailConfig" :{
             "to":"someone@gmail.com",
             "host": "smtp.gmail.com",            
             "port": 465,                    
             "domain": "[127.0.0.1]",           
             "from":"sender@gmail.com" ,
             "subject":"This is my mail subject,
              "reply_to": "sender@gmail.com",
              "authentication": "login",       
              "username": "sender@gmail.com",         
               "password": "pswd",   
               "debug": true      

}
}

When i send PDF files means it is not opening.. When send text files means it is opening with the 'content data'.. how can handle this?

Answer 1

I think you are using Marak/node_mailer instead of andris9/Nodemailer. The first repo itself says its deprecated and points to the second one as you can see in its github page.

Project deprecated in favor of nodemailer

You can install Nodemailer via

npm install nodemailer

or from the github repo. And the exposed mailer function will be sendMail instead of send.

you can see more example of attaching files with emails in this folder.