How do I receive emails in my web application?

Question

I am making a web application (front-end in Vuejs/Quasar and server in Hapijs) and I need it in addition to send also receive emails. I am sending it through the Nodemailer library, and it is working smoothly. What do I need to do to receive it?? Use API?? Create a server on the Google Cloud Platform and integrate with the Gmail API?? Where do I find good tutorials for this?? I am a beginner in programming, I apologize if the question seems meaningless, but I’m having a lot of difficulty in this task.

Answer 1

I found that I don’t need to create server in the cloud or anything like that, all I need to do is create a POP or IMAP receiving service, depending on which one fits the need best. For sending you can use the Nodemailer library, for receiving I am using the Node-imap, and to parse the emails when I catch them from Gmail using the Node-imap, I use the mailParser, which is from the same creator of Nodemailer. I just want to share this knowledge with that in the future can have the same doubt as me and end up here in your searches for the internet.