# Send emails using Nodemailer with SMTP

## Prerequisites

Before you start, you'll need:

- A Resend [API key](/guides/get-started-create-an-api-key)
- A [verified domain](/guides/get-started-add-a-domain)

:::::steps
::::step{title="Install"}
Get the [Nodemailer](https://www.npmjs.com/package/nodemailer) package.

:::code-group
```bash npm theme={"theme":{"light":"github-light","dark":"vesper"}}
npm install nodemailer
```

```bash yarn theme={"theme":{"light":"github-light","dark":"vesper"}}
yarn add nodemailer
```

```bash pnpm theme={"theme":{"light":"github-light","dark":"vesper"}}
pnpm add nodemailer
```

```bash bun theme={"theme":{"light":"github-light","dark":"vesper"}}
bun add nodemailer
```
:::
::::

:::step{title="Send email using SMTP"}
When configuring your SMTP integration, you'll need to use the following credentials:

- **Host**: `smtp.resend.com`
- **Port**: `465`
- **Username**: `resend`
- **Password**: `YOUR_API_KEY`

Then use these credentials to create a transport:

```js index.ts theme={"theme":{"light":"github-light","dark":"vesper"}}
import nodemailer from 'nodemailer';

async function main() {
  const transporter = nodemailer.createTransport({
    host: 'smtp.resend.com',
    secure: true,
    port: 465,
    auth: {
      user: 'resend',
      pass: 're_xxxxxxxxx',
    },
  });

  const info = await transporter.sendMail({
    from: 'onboarding@resend.dev',
    to: 'delivered@resend.dev',
    subject: 'Hello World',
    html: '<strong>It works!</strong>',
  });

  console.log('Message sent: %s', info.messageId);
}

main().catch(console.error);
```
:::
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## Examples

:::card{title="Nodemailer SMTP Example" href="https://github.com/resend/resend-nodemailer-smtp-example" icon="arrow-up-right-from-square"}
See the full source code.
:::

## Related pages

- [Send emails with SMTP](./get-started-send-with-smtp.md)
- [Send Auth0 transactional emails with Resend](./get-started-send-with-auth0.md)
- [Send emails using Customer.io with SMTP](./get-started-send-with-customer-io-smtp.md)
- [Send emails using Django with SMTP](./get-started-send-with-django-smtp.md)
- [Send emails using Laravel with SMTP](./get-started-send-with-laravel-smtp.md)
- [Send emails using Liferay with SMTP](./get-started-send-with-liferay-smtp.md)
- [Send emails using PHPMailer with SMTP](./get-started-send-with-phpmailer-smtp.md)
- [Send emails using Rails with SMTP](./get-started-send-with-rails-smtp.md)
- [Send emails using Retool with SMTP](./get-started-send-with-retool-smtp.md)
- [Send emails using Supabase with SMTP](./get-started-send-with-supabase-smtp.md)

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