Best practice to send emails from AppGyver

#1

Hey guys. I want to send an invitation email from my app on a button click. I wanted to use SendGrid but I am guessing it’s impossible to do so directly from AppGyver due to this:

Is there already a best practice integration or solution for sending email from AppGyver?

Alternatively, does anyone know if SendGrid can be made to work? I tried via HTTP request module but I just receive ‘TypeError: Failed to fetch. Does the server allow CORS?’

Otherwise I guess I have to go refresh my Lambda knowledge and make a request to a Lambda function from AppGyver and make the request to SendGrid from there, right?

#2

Actually, nevermind, I just created an API in Xano which calls Sendgrid instead!

#3

I use Sendgrid directly from Appgyver with no problem with HTTP Request flow function.

#4

Oh really? Is it secure? Maybe you could share a screenshot of your set-up.

#5

Sure!
Here is my simple UI to make an email (with optional attachments):

UI
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So what I did was create an Email Object variable with all the fields that SendGrid wants. This one includes attachments field. If there are no attachments then i have another Email Object variable without this field:
Email Object

Here is where I set the values of this Email Object:

Email Object2
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So here is the overall flow. It checks if there are attachments or not, because if not then SendGrid doesnt want the attachments field in the email object and I have to send a different Email Object without an attachment field:

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Here is how I set Attachments, using the Pick files flow function, convert it to Base64:

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And save the output to an attachments List variable:
Page attachments

The HTTP POST request looks like this:

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This is the Header part:
Header

And that’s it! It just works like that.

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Contact form in app
#6

Omg, thank you so much for all the effort of sharing this!

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#7

Hi John!

Thank your for sharing this. I had follow these steps and
Can I use free domain email address like Gmail or Yahoo? because SendGrid didn’t allow me to use those mails.

Best regards,
Jaya seelan

#8

Im not sure, ive never tried those domains before.

#9

DO you have a domain?

#10

I use sendgrid with my models.

#11

No, I don’t have any domains.

#12

So it only works with its own domain

#14

John, thanks for posting this, really helpful. Can confirm this still works as of 4/29/2022 :slight_smile:

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