How do I send an email with Dialoflow for Google actions

Question

I have looked all over to find a solution to run an intent that sends an email but cannot find any solutions. Can anyone help?

Answer 1

You can use nodemailer in your dialogflow webhook fulfillment intent to send emails.

Make sure to enable less secure apps here to use gmail to send emails.

Code for sending emails using nodemailer from your intent :

app.intent('sendMail', (conv, params) => {

      const nodemailer = require('nodemailer');
      const transporter = nodemailer.createTransport({
        service: 'gmail',
        auth: {
          user: '[email protected]',
          pass: 'yourPassword'
        }
      });

      var mailOptions = {
        from: '[email protected]',
        to: email, //receiver email 
        subject: 'Mail subject',
        text: 'mail body'
      };

      transporter.sendMail(mailOptions, function (error, info) {
        if (error) {
          console.log(error);
        } else {
          console.log('Email sent: ' + info.response);
        }
      });

});

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Hope that helps!