Sending email from Nuxt site using the Strapi email plugin

[ozed-dev]

Is it possible to?

I just need to send data from the contact form on the site to the administrative email. I don't want to create a separate service for this, especially since Strapy has his own solution. But I don't understand how to use it directly from the frontend.

As far as I can see, we do not have access to $strapi.plugins['email']... I can only create a collection like Messages. Then submit the new post to the collection from the contact form. And on the Strapi side create a trigger (idk how) for sending a letter when a new post created in this collection?

Am I thinking right? Maybe there is some simpler solution or a ready-made example of such an approach?

[mctweb]

You could just add a new route to an existing collection. Then link this route to a new controller, which you call your email service from. There is no need to add a whole collection unless you plan on storing these emails in your database.

[benjamincanac]

@vogordin The Email plugin adds a send route which you can use directly from your frontend:

await this.$strapi.$http.$post('/email', { to: '', subject: ``, text: `` })

Don't forget to authorize this route in your Strapi Admin.