The Email Destination allows you send an email to yourself — the email address tied to the account you signed up with — at any step of a workflow.
You can use this to email yourself when you receive a specific event, for example when a user signs up on your app. You can send yourself an email when a cron job finishes running, or when a job fails. Anywhere you need an email notification, you can use the Email Destination!
# Adding an Email Destination
# Adding an Email Action
- Add a new step to your workflow
- Select the Send Yourself an Email Action. You can modify the Subject and the message (either Plain Text or HTML) however you want.
# Using $.send.email in workflows
You can send data to an Email Destination in Node.js code steps, too, using the $.send.email() function. This allows you to send emails to yourself programmatically, if you need more control than actions provide.
$.send.email() takes the same parameters as the corresponding action:
export default defineComponent({
async run({ steps, $ }) {
$.send.email({
subject: "Your subject",
text: "Plain text email body",
html: "HTML email body"
});
}
});
The html property is optional. If you include both the text and html properties, email clients that support HTML will prefer that over the plaintext version.
Like with any $.send function, you can use $.send.email() conditionally, within a loop, or anywhere you'd use a function normally in Node.js.
# Using $.send.email in component actions
If you're authoring a component action, you can deliver data to an email destination using $.send.email.
$.send.email functions the same as $.send.email in workflow code steps:
export default defineComponent({
async run({ steps, $ }) {
$.send.email({
subject: "Your subject",
text: "Plain text email body",
html: "HTML email body"
});
}
})
# Delivery details
All emails come from notifications@pipedream.com.