EmailJS – Send emails directly from JavaScript

Re:EmailJS – Send emails directly from JavaScript by mattkrea on Wednesday February 04, 2015 @07:47PM (#9001093)

What value does this provide on top postageapp's api? I have to imagine most companies would (read:should) standardize on one provider.

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Re:EmailJS – Send emails directly from JavaScript by sashagim on Thursday February 05, 2015 @10:21AM (#9003618)

Hey Matt, I'm one of the founders. All existing APIs require using a secret key, which you obviously wouldn't want to share in your front-end code. We overcome this by allowing sending only predefined templates, so for a "Share with a friend" feature you'd create a template called "share", and your call would look like -

  EmailJS.send("share",{"to": "[email protected]","message":"You have to check this out!"})

This should prevent using our service for spamming, and we'll also offer some tools like CAPTCHA image, or rate limiting, to deal with spam/abuse.

Let me know if you have any further questions!

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Re:EmailJS – Send emails directly from JavaScript by jozan on Wednesday February 04, 2015 @08:02PM (#9001147)

I'm not the author of EmailJS but it doesn't require any backend where as PostageApp does.

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Re:EmailJS – Send emails directly from JavaScript by mattkrea on Wednesday February 04, 2015 @08:47PM (#9001291)

Backend on top of the existing API? I must be missing something but I still don't understand how this is easier than just hitting the PostageApp or [insert competitor here] API directly.

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