Email

The Email node provides both input and output of emails. The node is available on NPM at:

• node-red-node-email

As of 2016-03-06, the node has dependencies on:

• nodemailer
• imap

Reading emails

The current implementation uses the IMAP protocol to interact with a back-end IMAP provider. The very last email seen is received and the message added to an emitted event. If the email body is plain text, it is added to msg.payload. If the email body is HTML, it is added to msg.html.

Future enhancements

There are a number of potential enhancements available to the email node that can be addressed. These include:

• Support of IMAP that is not over SSL/TLS.
• Support for self-certified SSL certificates.
• Support for attachment processing.
• Support for POP3 as well as IMAP.
• Support for more than just last message processing.

Related forum posts and issues:

• [Retrieving email attachments using the email input node](https://groups.google.com/d/msg/node-red/UMIJyGVab-A/mLG7quyKBAAJ