diff --git a/config.example.json b/config.example.json
index c424251..bda8b62 100644
--- a/config.example.json
+++ b/config.example.json
@@ -1,8 +1,10 @@
 {
     "options": {
         "parallel_nodes": 2,
-        "parallel_node_tasks": 5
+        "parallel_node_tasks": 5,
+        "separate_into_tables": false
     },
+
     "smtp": {
         "host": "",
         "port": "",
@@ -11,6 +13,7 @@
         "password": "",
         "email_from": ""
     },
+
     "nodes": [
         {
             "name":  "Main Connection",
@@ -19,7 +22,7 @@
             "mail": {
                 "enabled": true,
                 "email_to": "",
-                "email_cc": ""
+                "email_cc": []
             },
 
             "hostname": "localhost",
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 49ed5f9..2efd93a 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 {
   "dependencies": {
-    "mysql": "^2.18.1"
+    "@types/nodemailer": "^6.4.4",
+    "mysql": "^2.18.1",
+    "nodemailer": "^6.6.3"
   }
 }
diff --git a/src/helper/config.ts b/src/helper/config.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8cafdd1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/helper/config.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,144 @@
+/**
+ * A Collection of settings
+ */
+interface ConfigOptions {
+    /**
+     * The number of nodes that will be ran in parallel, 
+     * if the number of nodes is smaller than the parallels, 
+     * it will simply divide them evenly and ignore extra parallels
+     */
+    parallel_nodes:      number,
+
+    /**
+     * The amount of tasks that a node parallel can run at once,
+     * these basically are mysql_dump processes.
+     */
+    parallel_node_tasks: number,
+
+    /**
+     * This option should be set to ON if you would like the dumps
+     * to only export tables.
+     */
+    separate_into_tables: boolean,
+}
+
+/**
+ * Basic configuration interface for the mailer
+ */
+interface SMTPConfig {
+    /**
+     * The email address to globally use for sending 
+     * out email from.
+     */
+    email_from : string,
+    /**
+     * Email username login details
+     */
+    username   : string,
+    /**
+     * Email password login details
+     */
+    password   : string,
+    /**
+     * The SMTP host of the email
+     */
+    host       : string,
+    /**
+     * The port to send to, common ports are 465 ( ssl ), 587 for TLS
+     */
+    port       : string,
+    /**
+     * Secure Connection
+     */
+    ssl        : boolean,
+}
+
+interface NodeConnectionMail {
+    /**
+     * Enable or disable email sending
+     */
+    enabled : boolean,
+    /**
+     * The main user to send out the email to
+     */
+    email_to: string,
+    /**
+     * A list of email addresses to CC into the email
+     */
+    email_cc: Array<string>,
+}
+
+interface DatabaseFilter {
+    /**
+     * A filter where anything inside of it is going to be ignored
+     */
+    blacklist?: null | Array<string>,
+    /**
+     * A filter where anything out of it will be ignored
+     */
+    whitelist?: null | Array<string>,
+}
+
+/**
+ * A Node Connection for the database backup
+ */
+interface NodeConnection {
+    /**
+     * The name for the connection to be identified by
+     */
+    name      : string,
+    /**
+     * Send out console debug messages
+     */
+    debug     : string,
+    /**
+     * Keep a log file for this connection independently
+     */
+    log       : boolean,
+    /**
+     * Mail configuration details
+     */
+    mail?     : NodeConnectionMail | null,
+    /**
+     * Ip Address of the database
+     */
+    hostname  : string,
+    /**
+     * The username for the database connection
+     */
+    username  : string,
+    /**
+     * The password to connect to the database with
+     */
+    password  : string,
+    /**
+     * The database filter, this can contain a blacklist or a whitelist.
+     */
+    databases?: DatabaseFilter
+}
+
+interface ConfigObject {
+    /**
+     * A list of global settings for the behaviour
+     * of the exporter
+     */
+    options: ConfigOptions,
+
+    /**
+     * SMTP details for sending out email notifications
+     * for real-time updates on erros, health, and backups.
+     */
+    smtp:    SMTPConfig,
+
+    /**
+     * An array of Node connections that we should backup
+     */
+    nodes:   Array<NodeConnection>
+}
+
+
+export function getConfig() : ConfigObject | null {
+
+    
+    return null;
+}
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diff --git a/src/models/mail_model.ts b/src/models/mail_model.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1a47273
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/models/mail_model.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+import nodemailer from "nodemailer";
+
+function getTransporter() {
+    
+}
+
+export function sendMail(mailContent: string, toAddress: string, ccAddresses?: Array<string>) {
+
+}
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