Dynamic Email Configuration Using Globals

[only-issues]

Hello PayloadCMS community and team,

Currently, I notice that email configuration is required during startup, which means the email settings must be hard-coded or stored in the .env file. Is there a way to store email configuration in Globals instead? I would like the nodemailerAdapter to automatically reinitialize with the new email settings whenever I update the email configuration in Globals.

[jmbriccola-ma]

Hi! I tried a few methods, this one seems to work fine for me. I'm using resend but I don't see why it couldn't work with Nodemailer.

`import { BasePayload, getPayload } from 'payload'
import { resendAdapter } from '@payloadcms/email-resend'
import configPromise from '@payload-config'
import { InitializedEmailAdapter } from 'node_modules/payload/dist/email/types'

export const emailConfig = async (payload: BasePayload) => {
const { email: s } = await payload.findGlobal({
slug: 'settings',
overrideAccess: true,
depth: 0,
})
if (!s?.enabled || !s?.resendApiKey || !s?.defaultFromAddress || !s?.defaultFromName) return

// Create the EmailAdapter factory
const factory = resendAdapter({
apiKey: s.resendApiKey,
defaultFromAddress: s.defaultFromAddress,
defaultFromName: s.defaultFromName,
})

// Initialize the EmailAdapter factory with the context (=> InitializedEmailAdapter)
type EmailAdapterFactory = (args: { payload: BasePayload }) => InitializedEmailAdapter
const init = factory as unknown as EmailAdapterFactory
const instance = init({ payload }) // <- questa è l'istanza con .sendEmail

// Sobstitute the instance used by Payload at runtime
payload.email = instance
payload.sendEmail = instance.sendEmail.bind(instance)
}

export const sendEmailFromPayload = async ({
payload,
...mail
}: {
payload?: BasePayload
to: string
subject: string
html?: string
text?: string
}) => {
if (!payload) payload = await getPayload({ config: configPromise })
if (!payload.email || payload.email.name === 'console') {
await emailConfig(payload)
}
await payload.sendEmail(mail)
}
`

It surely could be done in a better way, but I'm not that expert.

[AdrianMaj]

Hey @only-issues, I've already implemented exactly what you need in my payload-ecommerce-template

But from my experiences you are not able to reinitialize original nodemailerAdapter - you have to override payload.sendEmail with your own implementation, same with reset password logic etc.

• Global config
• nodemailer setup
• custom reset password link