Safely store the nodemailer password
I have an application that sends mail using nodemailer .
transporter = nodemailer.createTransport({
service: 'Gmail',
auth: {
user: "email",
pass: "what here?"
}
});
I want to keep the open app in the app, just for it (along with no plain text password anywhere).
I know about nodemailler-direct, but is there a better option here? I also thought about asking the server console for a password, but this is inconvenient.
Is there a "correct" or standard way to do such a thing?
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Use environment variables:
transporter = nodemailer.createTransport({
service: process.env.NODEMAILER_SERVICE,
auth: {
user: process.env.NODEMAILER_USER,
pass: process.env.NODEMAILER_PASS
}
});
You can set these variables on the server and the application will pick them up. For example:
NODEMAILER_SERVICE="Gmail"
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