Send transactional emails with Mailgun

To use the Mailgun integration to send transactional emails 3 environment variables are required:

MAILGUN_API_KEY - Your Mailgun API key is found on the Mailgun API security page.
MAILGUN_URL - This value can only be one of 2 values. https://api.mailgun.net if you're using the US infrastructure or https://api.eu.mailgun.net if you're using the EU infrastructure. The default value is https://api.mailgun.net.
MAILGUN_DOMAIN - If you connected your custom domain to Mailgun this value should be your custom domain. Otherwise, it will be a sandbox domain provided by Mailgun e.g. sandbox5519009eb6444178dc94b9214036072.mailgun.org.

Once you configured these values as environment variables you can use the two functions to either send plain text emails or pre-built template emails.

To send plain text emails use the following function:

import { sendPlainTextMail } from '@/utils/emails/mailgun'

...

await sendPlainTextMail(
  'to-email@test.com',                      // to email address
  'from-email@test.com',                    // from email address - usually an email address from your company
  'Subject of email',                       // email subject
  'Email body - hey this is a test email',  // plain text body of email
)

To send an email using a pre-built Mailgun template use the following function:

import { sendTemplateMail } from '@/utils/emails/mailgun'

...

await sendTemplateMail(
  'to-email@test.com',                // to email address
  'from-email@test.com',              // from email address - usually an email address from your company
  'Subject of email',                 // email subject
  'email-template-name',              // name of email template on Mailgun
  {                                   // dynamic template data configured in Mailgun email templates
    propName1: 'test value',
    propName2: 'another test value',
  }
)

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