Send emails & text messages

All applications need to send an email at one point.

You can send an email via StaticBackend’s server-side libraries by calling one function.

Since v1.3 you may send SMS / text messages from server-side calls using a ROOT_TOKEN.

Send email

Requires a root token: Sending email from server-side

HTTP request:

POST /sudo/sendmail

Format: JSON

Body:

name type description
fromName string From name
from string From email
to string To email
subject string Subject of the email
body string Body of the email (HTML version)
replyTo string Reply to email

Example:

curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
     -H "SB-PUBLIC-KEY: your-pub-key" \
     -H "Authorization: Bearer root-token" \
		 -X POST \
		 -d '{"from": "a@b.com", "to": "b@a.com", "subject": "hello", \
		 "body": "<h1>hello</h1>", "replyTo": "me@domain.com"}' \
     https://na1.staticbackend.com/sudo/sendmail
const data = {
	fromName: "Homer Simpson",
	from: "hsimpson@domain.com",
	to: "mrburns@domain.com",
	subject: "I quit",
	body: "<p>I leave my job at the plant</p>",
	replyTo: "flanders@domain.com"
}
const res = await bkn.sendMail(rootToken, data);
if err := backend.SendMail(
	rootToken, 
	"from@domain.com", 
	"From Name",
	"to@domain.com",
	"Subject here",
	"<p>body</p>",
	"reply@to.com"); err != nil {
		//...
	}

Send SMS / text message

Requires a root token: A Twilio account and active phone number is required for this function.

HTTP request:

POST /sudo/sendmail

Format: JSON

Body:

name type description
accountSID string Twilio AccountSID
authToken string Twilio AuthToken
toNumber string Destination phone number i.e. +12325554321
fromNumber string Twilio phone number
bodyy string Body of the text message

Example:

curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
     -H "SB-PUBLIC-KEY: your-pub-key" \
     -H "Authorization: Bearer root-token" \
		 -X POST \
		 -d '{"accountSID": "get-this-on-twilio", \ 
		 "authToken": "from-twilio", \
		 "toNumber": "+17975557654", \
		 "fromNumber": "+12325554321", \
		 "body": "Your auth code is: 123456"' \
     https://na1.staticbackend.com/extra/sms
const data = {
	accountSID: "get-this-from-twilio",
	authToken: "from-twilio",
	toNumber: "+17975557654",
	fromNumber: "+12325554321",
	body: "Your auth code is: 123456",
}
const res = await bkn.sudoSendSMS(rootToken, data);
data := backend.SMSData{
	AccountSID: "get-this-from-twilio",
	AuthToken: "from-twilio",
	ToNumber: "+17975557654",
	FromNumber: "+12325554321",
	Body: "Your auth code is: 123456",
}
if err := backend.(	rootToken, data); err != nil {
	// handle error here
}

Response:

HTTP status > 299 = error

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