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How to use Resend as email provider?

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generator101last year
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Has anyone used resend as email provider? I was reading this

https://payloadcms.com/docs/email/overview#use-an-email-service

but has anyone used resend with payload?



any docs about setting up this will be great

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    denolfe
    last year

    Hey @generator101, we use Resend behind the scenes for Payload Cloud. I can point you to some code that should get you 90% of the way there.



    Here is the code to configure the nodemailer transport config for Resend:

    https://github.com/payloadcms/plugin-cloud/blob/main/src/email.ts#L64-L150

    You should be able to grab that code, make a few modifications, then pass into the

    email

    property on

    init

    .

    https://payloadcms.com/docs/email/overview#configuration


    You can strip out most things related to Payload Cloud custom domains and swap some env vars.



    How to use Resend as email provider?

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    generator101last year

    @denolfe thank you, I got it working using the code you provided, thank you again

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    denolfe
    last year

    Awesome!



    @generator101 If you could share the code, that would be helpful for other people wanting to do the same! 👍



    We'd likely add this to our docs as well

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    generator101last year

    @denolfe sure, here is my transport





    I configured it like this in server



    const email = emailTransport({
            config: {
                fromName: process.env.RESENT_FROM_NAME,
                fromAddress: process.env.RESENT_FROM_EMAIL,
            },
            apiKey: process.env.RESEND_API_KEY,
            defaultDomain: process.env.RESEND_DOMAIN,
        })


    environmental variables can be set for these



    RESEND_API_KEY=
    RESEND_DOMAIN=
    RESENT_FROM_NAME=
    RESENT_FROM_EMAIL=
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    markatomniuxlast year

    Hey @generator101 would you mind also including a copy of any code you used to create the email? I'm about to start implementing Resend in our environment and an example with Hooks would be great

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    generator101last year
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    markatomniuxlast year

    Thanks @generator101. Do you use React Email as well?

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    generator101last year

    No, but i was thinking of using it in future

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    markatomniuxlast year

    @generator101 I wanted to share this, I incorporated React Email alongside resend. If anyone following this thread wants to try, install react-email in your Payload project and create an

    emails

    folder in your src directory.



    I have a file in here called transport, where I use the code from

    https://discord.com/channels/967097582721572934/1129596553011658943/1132327692218417162

    and I have another folder called

    templates

    . Inside of templates, create a new React Email component like this;



    import { Html } from '@react-email/html'
    import { Text } from '@react-email/text'
    import { render } from '@react-email/render'
    
    type Props = {
        name: string;
    }
    
    const Template: FC<Props> = ({ name }) => {
    
        return (
            <Html>
                <Text>Hello, {name}</Text>
            </Html>
        )
    }
    
    export default function (data: Props) {
        return render(<Template {...data} />);
    }


    When using Payload.sendEmail, pass the render function into the html prop like this;



    import TestEmail from '../email/templates/TestEmail
    
    ...
    
    payload.sendEmail({
        to: 'test@email.com',
        from 'contact@mywebsite.com',
        subject: 'Test',
        html: TestEmail({ name: 'John Doe'     })
    });


    Remember to install all react email components as needed, follow the docs -

    https://react.email/docs/components/html

    Hope this helps anyone in the future!

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    denolfe
    last year

    That's great! Incorporating React Email was on our list of things to get going 👍

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    fatso8855last year

    Re-opening this conversation. I followed how all the above was built but I get an error when building my project:



    my build commands from

    package.json

    :


    "build:payload": "cross-env PAYLOAD_CONFIG_PATH=src/payload.config.ts payload build",
     "build:server": "tsc",


    the error I get:


    src/email/transport.ts(104,62): error TS2339: Property 'error' does not exist on type 'CreateEmailResponse'.


    Any help would be appreciated.



    I fixed the

    tsc

    compiler error.



    For anyone else who comes across this:



    replace the

    if

    block on line 103 with this:



    if ('error' in sendResponse as any) {
        return callback(
            new Error('Error sending email', { cause: (sendResponse as any).error}),
            null
        )
    }
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    aaronksaunderslast year

    is there any place where there is a complete example on how to implement this? I seem like a series of snippets from seperate comments and I am not sure which ones are needed for a complete solution?

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    denolfe
    last year

    Are you attempting to use Resend specifically or another provider?

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    aaronksaunderslast year

    Resend

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    denolfe
    last year

    Resend recently released this example for nodemailer:

    https://github.com/resendlabs/resend-nodemailer-smtp-example


    You'd then pass the transport into the init function as the docs say here:

    https://payloadcms.com/docs/email/overview#use-a-custom-nodemailer-transport


    Poaching some snippets from both pages:



      const transport = nodemailer.createTransport({
        host: 'smtp.resend.com',
        secure: true,
        port: 465,
        auth: {
          user: 'resend',
          pass: 're_123456789',
        },
      });


    payload.init({
      email: {
        fromName: 'Admin',
        fromAddress: 'admin@example.com',
        transport,
      },
      // ...
    })
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    aaronksaunderslast year

    That’s what I did 👍🏿 - just wasn’t sure if that was the best approach since it seemed too simple and there was such a long thread

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    markatomniuxlast year

    I have an article that you can use to get started too. Be aware though, it uses Payload V1, so there may be some slight differences;



    https://www.omniux.io/blog/payload-react-email-create-dynamic-emails
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    aaronksaunderslast year

    Thanks, The transport configuration is all that is really needed for the basics, will take a look if I decide I need something more complex

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    markatomniuxlast year

    No worries, the article include transport setup with resend too 😊

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    manny_49461last year

    Thank y'all for this, really helped me set up Resend on Payload

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    generator10111 months ago

    @Mark | Omniux do you have one for version 2? I am upgrading my payload from 1 to 2 and although I am sending emails, I get errors



    ERROR (payload): Failed to send mail to [EMAIL], subject: Reset your password


    err: {


    "type": "Error",


    "message": "Error sending email",


    "stack":


    Error: Error sending email



    oh looks like resend also updated their package

    https://resend.com/docs/send-with-nodejs

    , I updated it to

    const { error } = await resend.emails.send

    in case some one comes to this error

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    markatomniux11 months ago

    thanks @generator101, i'm going to be reviewing this example in a few weeks as I will be implementing a slightly more advanced version with Payload 2

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    macca9811 months ago

    Hello everyone! I don't know if it's the right thread but I'll try anyway, I'm using Resend alongside with nodemailer and payload to send emails. I configured the transport as described by @denolfe , then I've put inside a

    beforeOperation

    hook the

    payload.sendEmail({})

    line (it's just for testing), but the Email is not being sent. I tried if Resend standalone it's working through their library and it is, I also tried to use nodemailer standalone and it's working, but from Payload it doesn't send any email (I'm testing it in development environment), does some of you have any suggestions?



    Update, it works:


    I've put the

    from

    key into the

    payload.sendEmail({})

    message and now it works, but from the documentation here (

    https://payloadcms.com/docs/email/overview#sending-mail

    ) it says it's not needed, since is setup into the

    email

    field inside

    payload.init

    , any thoughts on this?



    Update 2: using

    payload.sendEmail({})

    as described in update1 works, but it doesn't fire the verify email on collection creation (I've put

    verify

    on true in the collection)

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    denolfe
    11 months ago

    @Macca I'd say go ahead and create an issue on GitHub, and we can update the docs if necessary

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