Send an html email from the command line via Mandrill. Useful for rapidly testing html emails.

mandrill-send.js

var email = require('mandrill-send')('MANDRILL_API_KEY');
var fs = require('fs');

require.extensions['.html'] = function (module, filename) {
    module.exports = fs.readFileSync(filename, 'utf8');
};

var htmlEmail = require("PATH_TO_FILE.HTML");

email({
  from: 'FROM_NAME <[email protected]>',
  to: [{ name: 'TO_NAME', email: '[email protected]' }],
  subject: Date(),
  html: htmlEmail
}, function(err){
  if (err) console.error(err);
  console.log('Sent!');
});