Sending (form-)mails from static websites with Go

• js-mailer

  2 6 8.0 Go

  A form mailer web service for JavaScript-based websites

js-mailer is a very simple, yet powerful, web service writting in Go that allows static websites to send forms via JavaScript’s fetch() or XMLHttpRequest APIs.

• Gomail

  2 4,197 0.0 Go

  The best way to send emails in Go.

  

In the first iterations of js-mailer I used the popular go-gomail/gomail package for handling the mail sending part. Unfortunately the project isn't maintained anymore and uses some pretty outdated opinions on how to handle the mail sending.

• WorkOS

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• go-mail

  8 456 8.6 Go

  📧 Easy to use, yet comprehensive library for sending mails with Go

Due to the above mentioned reasons and the lack of proper alternatives decided to write my own Go mail library. On a long weekend I started working on wneessen/go-mail and in the night of Sunday I had a kind of working prototype and I implemented it with js-mailer.

• Hugo

  548 72,452 9.8 Go

  The world’s fastest framework for building websites.

  

Even though this worked pretty well, over the years I started to dislike Wordpress. Also with all the needed plugins, the site became horribly slow (4-5 seconds per requests - I’ve never really figured out which plugin caused this slowness). So eventually I decided to replace the Wordpress with a static page generator: Hugo.

• formspree

  53 2,791 0.0 Python

  Discontinued The successor to this repository is actively maintained at https://formspree.io. Its source code is not available

  

So I had to use JavaScript and some kind of form mailer to send contact form requests. There are 3rd party services like https://formspree.io/ that are specialized on this, but since I don’t wanna invest money just to send forms and I also don’t trust the data privacy of such services (GDPR is a big thing in the EU you know 😉), I decided to write my own little web service for it.

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