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# Email
Thanks to the plugin `Email`, you can send email from your server or externals providers such as **Sendgrid**.
## Programmatic usage
In your custom controllers or services you may want to send email.
By using the following function, strapi will use the configured provider to send an email.
```js
await strapi.plugins['email'].services.email.send({
to: 'paulbocuse@strapi.io',
from: 'joelrobuchon@strapi.io',
replyTo: 'no-reply@strapi.io',
subject: 'Use strapi email provider successfully',
text: 'Hello world!',
html: 'Hello world!',
});
```
## Configure the plugin
The plugin provide you a setting page to be able to define the email provider you want to use.
You will also be able to add some configuration.
- Click on **Plugins** in the left menu
- Click on the cog button on the **Email** plugin line
## Install new providers
By default Strapi provides a local email system. You might want to send email with a third party.
You can check all the available providers developed by the community on npmjs.org - [Providers list](https://www.npmjs.com/search?q=strapi-provider-email-)
To install a new provider run:
:::: tabs
::: tab yarn
```
yarn add strapi-provider-email-sendgrid@beta --save
```
:::
::: tab npm
```
npm install strapi-provider-email-sendgrid@beta --save
```
:::
::::
::: tip
If the provider is not in the mono repo, you probably don't need `@beta` depending if the creator published it with this tag or not.
:::
Then, visit [http://localhost:1337/admin/plugins/email/configurations/development](http://localhost:1337/admin/plugins/email/configurations/development) on your web browser and configure the provider.
## Create new provider
If you want to create your own, make sure the name starts with `strapi-provider-email-` (duplicating an existing one will be easier), modify the `auth` config object and customize the `send` function.
Default template
```js
module.exports = {
provider: 'provider-id',
name: 'display name',
auth: {
config_1: {
label: 'My Config 1',
type: 'text',
},
},
init: config => {
return {
send: async options => {},
};
},
};
```
In the `send` function you will have access to:
- `config` that contain configuration you setup in your admin panel
- `options` that contain option your send when you called the `send` function from the email plugin service
To use it you will have to publish it on **npm**.
### Create a local provider
If you want to create your own provider without publishing it on **npm** you can follow these steps:
- Create a `providers` folder in your application.
- Create your provider as explained in the documentation eg. `./providers/strapi-provider-email-[...]/...`
- Then update your `package.json` to link your `strapi-provider-email-[...]` dependency to the [local path](https://docs.npmjs.com/files/package.json#local-paths) of your new provider.
```json
{
...
"dependencies": {
...
"strapi-provider-email-[...]": "file:providers/strapi-provider-email-[...]",
...
}
}
```
- Finally, run `yarn install` or `npm install` to install your new custom provider.