How to send an email to a default address in a contact form

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Hi,
I have created a contact us form in my app and I want to send an email with the input details to a predefined address, in the background, when the user clicks submit. Can anyone point me in the direction of a good tutorial please ? I’ve been looking on line and haven’t found anything I could use. Thanks

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You can’t send an email automatically in the background using the phone’s email client. You can open the email client with an email prefilled out using Linking (https://docs.expo.io/versions/latest/workflow/linking/) and providing a typical email link (like one used on a web page):

Linking.openURL(
      `mailto:support@someplace.com?subject=Help Me!`)

If you want to automatically send emails, you’ll need to get a server involved that has access to an SMTP server or a service for sending emails. An example would be a Heroku app with the Mailgun addon: Mailgun - Add-ons - Heroku Elements

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