Send email with nodemailer, and insert form data into mysql db - mysql

Question

Trying to setup a form that receives user input for a beta testing email list, which will send me an email with the user's information, and store the same form data into a mysql database.
I have the mysql connection and query inside the same route as the nodemailer objects, but when the form is submitted I get an error saying that "admin is not defined". This is the admin inside the transporter object. I thought it might cause problems if two different objects (tranporter and connection) have the same property name, so I changed the conventional nodemailer 'user' inside the transporter to 'admin'.
const express = require("express");
const app = express();
const nodemailer = require("nodemailer");
const bodyParser = require("body-parser");
const mysql = require("mysql");
app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({extended: true}));
// send "Beta" email when user signs up to the email list using the "Beta" form
app.post("/register", function(req, res){
// connect to database
const connection = mysql.createConnection({
host: "localhost",
user: "root",
password: "PASSWORD",
database: "DATABASE_NAME"
});
// insert statement
let insert = "INSERT INTO Beta_Testers(First_Name, Last_Name, Beta_Email) VALUES ('" + req.body.First_Name + "', '" + req.body.Last_Name + "', '" + req.body.Beta_Email + "')";
// execute the insert statement
connection.query(insert);
// disconnect from database
connection.end();
// nodemailer objects
let mailOpts, transporter;
// email transporter
transporter = nodemailer.createTransport({
host: 'smtp.gmail.com',
port: 3000, // changed from 465
secure: true,
auth: {
admin: "GMAIL_USER",
pass: "PASSWORD"
}
});
// email credentials
mailOpts = {
from: req.body.First_Name + " " + req.body.Last_Name + " <" + req.body.Beta_Email + ">",
to: admin,
subject: "You have a new BETA tester!",
text: `${req.body.Beta_Email} has signed up to be a BETA tester for WEBAPP_NAME. Please confirm sucessful registration into DATABASE_NAME.`
};
// send email and verify contact
transporter.sendMail(mailOpts, function(err, res) {
if (err) {
res.render("contact-failure");
} else {
res.render("contact-success");
}
});
});
ReferenceError: admin is not defined

Answer 1

The Error is in : "to: admin"
It should contain an email to which email will be sent. These are the mail_options and the option "to" need to be set with an email like "abc#xyz.com".
You can set :-
to: req.body.email