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[![Go Report Card](https://goreportcard.com/badge/github.com/wneessen/go-mail)](https://goreportcard.com/report/github.com/wneessen/go-mail) [![Build Status](https://api.cirrus-ci.com/github/wneessen/go-mail.svg)](https://cirrus-ci.com/github/wneessen/go-mail) <a href="https://ko-fi.com/D1D24V9IX"><img src="https://uploads-ssl.webflow.com/5c14e387dab576fe667689cf/5cbed8a4ae2b88347c06c923_BuyMeACoffee_blue.png" height="20" alt="buy ma a coffee"></a>
The main idea of this library was to provide a simple interface to sending mails for
my [JS-Mailer](https://github.com/wneessen/js-mailer) project. It quickly evolved into a
full-fledged mail library.
my [JS-Mailer](https://github.com/wneessen/js-mailer) project. It quickly evolved into a full-fledged mail library.
go-mail follows idiomatic Go style and best practice. It's only dependency is the Go Standard Library.
It combines a lot of functionality from the standard library to give easy and convenient access to
mail and SMTP related tasks.
go-mail follows idiomatic Go style and best practice. It's only dependency is the Go Standard Library. It combines a lot
of functionality from the standard library to give easy and convenient access to mail and SMTP related tasks.
Parts of this library (especially some parts of [msgwriter.go](msgwriter.go)) have been forked/ported from the
[go-mail/mail](https://github.com/go-mail/mail) respectively [go-gomail/gomail](https://github.com/go-gomail/gomail)
which both seems to not be maintained anymore.
## Features
Some of the features of this library:
* [X] Only Standard Library dependant
* [X] Modern, idiomatic Go
* [X] Sane and secure defaults
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* [X] Support for attachments and inline embeds
* [ ] Support for different encodings (existing but not fully tested)
go-mail works like a programatic email client and provides lots of methods and functionalities you would
consider standard in a MUA.
go-mail works like a programatic email client and provides lots of methods and functionalities you would consider
standard in a MUA.
## Examples
The package is shipped with GoDoc example code for difference scenarios. Check them out on its
[GoDoc page](https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/wneessen/go-mail#pkg-examples)
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if err := m.To(`"Max Mastermind <rcpt@example.com>"`); err != nil {
fmt.Printf("failed to set TO address: %s\n", err)
os.Exit(1)
}
}
m.CcIgnoreInvalid("cc@example.com")
// Set a subject line
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if err != nil {
fmt.Printf("failed to create new mail client: %s\n", err)
os.Exit(1)
}
}
// Now that we have our client, we can connect to the server and send our mail message
// via the convenient DialAndSend() method. You have the option to Dial() and Send()
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if err := c.DialAndSend(m); err != nil {
fmt.Printf("failed to send mail: %s\n", err)
os.Exit(1)
}
}
fmt.Println("Mail successfully sent.")
}