diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 46158bf..6c8de50 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -10,3 +10,4 @@ npm-debug.log
 webpage/js/env_variables.js
 client/dist
 src/webserver/access.log
+conf/development.json
diff --git a/client/app/components/MovieObject.jsx b/client/app/components/MovieObject.jsx
index 51a98d4..b3e48af 100644
--- a/client/app/components/MovieObject.jsx
+++ b/client/app/components/MovieObject.jsx
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ class MovieObject {
 		if (this.matchedInPlex) {
 			returnList.push(<button onClick={() => this.requestExisting(this)}>Request anyway</button>)
 		} else {
-			returnList.push(<button onClick={() => this.requestMovie(this)}>Request</button>)
+			returnList.push(<button onClick={() => this.requestMovie(this.id)}>Request</button>)
 		}
 
 		returnList.push(<span>{this.overview}</span>);
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 463031b..6d7198c 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -2,18 +2,19 @@
     "name": "node-api",
     "main": "src/webserver/server.js",
     "scripts": {
-    	"start": "cross-env SEASONED_CONFIG=conf/development.json NODE_PATH=. node src/webserver/server.js"
+        "start": "cross-env SEASONED_CONFIG=conf/development.json NODE_PATH=. node src/webserver/server.js"
     },
     "dependencies": {
-        "express": "~4.0.0",
-        "mongoose": "~3.6.13",
         "body-parser": "~1.0.1",
         "cross-env": "^3.1.3",
-	"sqlite": "^2.5.0",
-	"request": "^2.81.0", 
-	"python-shell": "^0.4.0",
-	"moviedb": "^0.2.7",
-    	"node-cache": "^4.1.1",
-	"request-promise": "^4.2"
+        "express": "~4.0.0",
+        "mongoose": "~3.6.13",
+        "moviedb": "^0.2.7",
+        "node-cache": "^4.1.1",
+        "nodemailer": "^4.0.1",
+        "python-shell": "^0.4.0",
+        "request": "^2.81.0",
+        "request-promise": "^4.2",
+        "sqlite": "^2.5.0"
     }
 }
diff --git a/src/plex/mailTemplate.js b/src/plex/mailTemplate.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a62e177
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/plex/mailTemplate.js
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+class mailTemplate {
+	
+	constructor(mediaItem) {
+		this.mediaItem = mediaItem;
+		this.posterURL = 'https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w600/';
+	}
+
+	toText() {
+		return this.mediaItem.title + ' (' + this.mediaItem.year + ')'; // plain text body
+	}
+
+	toHTML() {
+		const info = { 
+			name: this.mediaItem.title,
+			year: '(' + this.mediaItem.year + ')',
+			poster: this.posterURL + this.mediaItem.poster
+		}
+
+		return `
+			<h1>${info.name} ${info.year}</h1>
+			<img src=${info.poster}>
+		`
+	}
+}
+
+module.exports = mailTemplate;
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/plex/requestRepository.js b/src/plex/requestRepository.js
index a4f1872..a15a8d5 100644
--- a/src/plex/requestRepository.js
+++ b/src/plex/requestRepository.js
@@ -8,7 +8,11 @@ const tmdb = new TMDB(configuration.get('tmdb', 'apiKey'));
 var Promise = require('bluebird');
 var rp = require('request-promise');
 
+const MailTemplate = require('src/plex/mailTemplate')
+
 var pythonShell = require('python-shell');
+const nodemailer = require('nodemailer');
+
 
 class RequestRepository {
 
@@ -60,24 +64,57 @@ class RequestRepository {
 	sendRequest(identifier) {
 		// TODO try a cache hit on the movie item
 
-		console.log(identifier)
 		tmdb.lookup(identifier).then(movie => {
 			console.log(movie.title)
 
-			var options = {
-			args: [movie.title, movie.year, movie.poster]
-			}
 
-			pythonShell.run('sendRequest.py', options, function (err, results) {
-				if (err) throw err;
-				// TODO Add error handling!! RequestRepository.ERROR
-				// results is an array consisting of messages collected during execution
+			// create reusable transporter object using the default SMTP transport
+			let transporter = nodemailer.createTransport({
+			    host: configuration.get('mail', 'host'),
+			    port: 26,
+			    ignoreTLS: true,
+			    tls :{rejectUnauthorized: false},
+			    secure: false, // secure:true for port 465, secure:false for port 587
+			    auth: {
+			        user: configuration.get('mail', 'user'),
+			        pass: configuration.get('mail', 'password')
+			    }
+			});
 
-				console.log('results: %j', results)
-			})
-			return true;
+			const mailTemplate = new MailTemplate(movie)
+
+			// setup email data with unicode symbols
+			let mailOptions = {
+				// TODO get the mail adr from global location (easy to add)
+			    from: 'MovieRequester <support@kevinmidboe.com>', // sender address
+			    to: 'kevin.midboe@gmail.com', // list of receivers
+			    subject: 'Download request', // Subject line
+			    text: mailTemplate.toText(),
+			    html: mailTemplate.toHTML()
+			};
+
+			// send mail with defined transport object
+			transporter.sendMail(mailOptions, (error, info) => {
+			    if (error) {
+			        return console.log(error);
+			    }
+			    console.log('Message %s sent: %s', info.messageId, info.response);
+			});
+
+			// var options = {
+			// args: [movie.title, movie.year, movie.poster]
+			// }
+
+			// pythonShell.run('sendRequest.py', options, function (err, results) {
+			// 	if (err) throw err;
+			// 	// TODO Add error handling!! RequestRepository.ERROR
+			// 	// results is an array consisting of messages collected during execution
+
+			// 	console.log('results: %j', results)
+			// })
 		})
 
+		return Promise.resolve();
 		
 	}