I am creating a route on an API which features sending an email when a user signs up. I am using nodemailer and google app password to achieve this. It was working perfectly until February 3rd 2023 that was the last use of the password. However, I did not change any code the connection simply just stopped working.
This is how my code is formatted:
const transporter = nodemailer.createTransport({
service: 'gmail',
auth: {
user: process.env.GOOGLE_EMAIL,
pass: process.env.GOOGLE_APP_PASSWORD
},
});
const mailOptions = {
from: process.env.GOOGLE_EMAIL,
to: "user#gmail.com",
subject: 'Test Email',
html: "<h1>Email is sent<h1>"
};
transporter.sendMail(mailOptions, function (error, info) {
if (error) {
console.log(error);
} else {
console.log('Email sent: ' + info.response);
}
});
I have also tried this format but it doesn't work either:
const transporter = nodemailer.createTransport({
host: "smtp.gmail.com",
port: 587, // or 465
secure: true,
auth: {
user: process.env.GOOGLE_EMAIL,
pass: process.env.GOOGLE_APP_PASSWORD
}
});
const mailOptions = {
from: process.env.GOOGLE_EMAIL,
to: "user#gmail.com",
subject: 'Test Email',
html: "<h1>Email is sent<h1>"
};
transporter.sendMail(mailOptions, function (error, info) {
if (error) {
console.log(error);
} else {
console.log('Email sent: ' + info.response);
}
});
In either case the error I receive after trying to send an email with either format is the following:
Error: Connection timeout
at SMTPConnection._formatError (/workspace/elana-backend/node_modules/nodemailer/lib/smtp-connection/index.js:787:19)
at SMTPConnection._onError (/workspace/elana-backend/node_modules/nodemailer/lib/smtp-connection/index.js:773:20)
at Timeout.<anonymous> (/workspace/elana-backend/node_modules/nodemailer/lib/smtp-connection/index.js:232:22)
at listOnTimeout (node:internal/timers:559:17)
at processTimers (node:internal/timers:502:7) {
code: 'ETIMEDOUT',
command: 'CONN'
}
The first block of code was working perfectly fine up until recently. I thought a possible password change may have revoked the app password because I noticed that in google app password documentation. Therefore, I also created a new app password but it still appeared with the same issue.
Edit -
Are you using an App Password to make these requests? This password is used to connect applications to your Google account and WILL NOT allow you to login/authenticate with your Google account
Have you tried using a service account with domain-wide delegation to send the email?
I use a similar piece of code to send emails (as users in our Google Workspace) when a Slack message is posted in a channel, however I struggled to have success authenticating using basic authentication like you are above. Instead I took a suggestion from #Linda Lawton - DalmTo in this question. Below I am using OAuth2.0 to impersonate a service account that is authorized through domain-wide delegation to send emails as users in the workspace. Sample code:
const transport = nodemailer.createTransport({
service: 'Gmail',
auth: {
type: 'OAuth2',
user: process.env.GOOGLE_EMAIL,
//Derived from Service Account
serviceClient: privatekey.client_id,
privateKey: privatekey.private_key
}
})
const mail_options = {
from: process.env.GOOGLE_EMAIL,
to: 'test#gmail.com',
subject: 'Test Mail',
html: '<h1> Test Email </h1>',
}
transport.sendMail(mail_options, function(error, result){
if(error){
console.log('Error: ' + error);
}else{
console.log('Result: ' + result);
}
transport.close();
})
Google has some confusing, but well written documentation on using domain-wide delegation in your workspace here. If you are not familiar with Google Cloud services there might be some other resources to catch up on with as well
You might also need to add the transport.close() method in the body of the callback in your .sendMail() method
References
OAuth2.0 with Service Accounts
Domain-Wide Delegation with Service Account
Domain-Wide Delegation
Service Accounts
I am trying to use nodemailer on replit, and I am having some issues here is my code:
const transporter = nodemailer.createTransport({
service: 'gmail',
user: 'email',
pass: 'password'
});
const mailOptions = {
from: 'SENDER-EMAIL',
to: 'RECIPIENT-EMAIL',
subject: 'SUBJECT',
text: 'EMAIL BODY',
};
transporter.sendMail(mailOptions,(err,res)=>{
if(err){
console.log(err);
}
else {
console.log('The email was sent successfully');
}
});
obviously I don't have "email and "password" in my code but I don't want to put my actual credentials in here.
I have tried several forms of this, and every question and troubleshooting guide I have seen has said that I either need to disable 2fa, or allow less secure apps to sign in, but I have done both, and it still give me an error saying:
"Error: Mail command failed: 530-5.7.0 Authentication Required. Learn more at
530 5.7.0 https://support.google.com/mail/?p=WantAuthError h19-20020a05620a401300b006eed47a1a1esm9834891qko.134 - gsmtp"
why is this happening still?
Your user and password need to be in an auth property:
const transporter = nodemailer.createTransport({
service: 'gmail',
auth: {
user: 'email',
pass: 'password'
}
});
I use a Microsoft 365 Outlook account hosted on GoDaddy.
I am attempting to have my Node server send an email to my Outlook account when user clicks the [contact us] button. The code is below:
const nodemailer = require('nodemailer');
app.post('/contact', function(req, res){
res.send(JSON.stringify(req.body));
//generate email
let transporter = nodemailer.createTransport({
host: 'smtp.office365.com',
port: 587,
secure: false,
auth: {
user: 'myemail#mysite.com',
pass: 'mypass'
}
});
const mailOptions = {
from: '"Administrator" <myemail#mysite.com>',
to: 'myemail#mysite.com',
subject: "Someone has messaged your website",
html: "<p>Name: " + req.body.fullName + "<br>Email: " + req.body.email + "<br>Message: " + req.body.msg + "</p>"
};
transporter.sendMail(mailOptions, function (err, info) {
if(err)
console.log(err)
else
console.log(info.messageId);
});
});
The error that is being logged to console is:
'451 4.7.0 Temporary server error. Please try again later. PRX4 [CO2PR04CA0181.namprd04.prod.outlook.com]'
UPDATED 7/13
Another error message which may be more useful (as is first line in error stack) is the following:
at SMTPConnection._formatError
I am using this function to send mail to outlook, try and see if it works.
The only missing thing I can suspect is tls.
module.exports.sendEmail = function (options) {
if(!options){
throw new Error("invalid options");
} else if(!options.auth) {
throw new Error("missing user and pass");
}
var transporter = nodemailer.createTransport({
host: 'smtp.office365.com', // Office 365 server
port: 587, // secure SMTP
secure:false, // false for TLS -
auth: options.auth,
tls: {ciphers: 'SSLv3'} // <<< try adding it
});
transporter.sendMail({
from: options.from,
sender: options.sender,
replyTo: options.replyTo,
to: options.to,
subject: options.subject,
cc:options.cc,
bcc:options.bcc,
text:options.text,
html:options.html,
attachments:options.attachments,
}, function (err, info) {
if (err && options.onError) {
options.onError(err);
}
else if(options.onSuccess) {
options.onSuccess(info);
}
});
}
****** caller ******
nodeoutlook.sendEmail({
auth: {
user: "user#outlook.com",
pass: "********"
},
from: 'from#outlook.com',
to: 'to#gmail.com',
subject: 'subject',
html: '<b>html</b>',
text: 'text',
replyTo: 'replyTo#gmail.com',
attachments: [],
onError: (e) => console.log(e),
onSuccess: (i) => console.log(i)
}
Understand this is a pretty lame answer....but its the truth!!
Im changed the password (mypass) for my email account then it worked.
i tried nodemailer but its not working. i want to send email to user through my node js website. can anyone please help me to get it done
//code
var nodemailer = require('nodemailer');
var transporter = nodemailer.createTransport({
service: 'gmail',
auth: {
user: 'youremail#gmail.com',
pass: 'yourpassword'
}
});
var mailOptions = {
from: 'youremail#gmail.com',
to: 'myfriend#yahoo.com',
subject: 'Sending Email using Node.js',
text: 'That was easy!'
};
transporter.sendMail(mailOptions, function(error, info){
if (error) {
console.log(error);
} else {
console.log('Email sent: ' + info.response);
}
});
In my experience sending emails can be made a lot easier by outsourcing the work to a provider like https://www.mailgun.com, the cost is $0.0008 per email. The reason for this is not only simplicity but deliverability. So many people have sent so many fake and junk emails over the years, emails often end up in spam folders when the server is not set up correctly. Things like adding SPF records to domains can obviously help but in all honesty, I now just use a sending provider.
Try this. The port is important to be 465.
var transporter = nodemailer.createTransport({
service: 'gmail',
auth: {
user: 'youremail#gmail.com',
pass: 'yourpassword'
},
port: 465,
secure: true,
tls: {
rejectUnauthorized: false
}
});
I've set up a basic NodeJS server (using the nodemailer module) locally (http://localhost:8080) just so that I can test whether the server can actually send out emails.
If I understand the SMTP option correctly (please correct me if I'm wrong), I can either try to send out an email from my server to someone's email account directly, or I can send the email, still using Node.js, but via an actual email account (in this case my personal Gmail account), i.e using SMTP. This option requires me to login into that acount remotely via NodeJS.
So in the server below I'm actually trying to use NodeJs to send an email from my personal email account to my personal email account.
Here's my simple server :
var nodemailer = require('nodemailer');
var transporter = nodemailer.createTransport("SMTP", {
service: 'Gmail',
auth: {
user: '*my personal Gmail address*',
pass: '*my personal Gmail password*'
}
});
var http = require('http');
var httpServer = http.createServer(function (request, response)
{
transporter.sendMail({
from: '*my personal Gmail address*',
to: '*my personal Gmail address*',
subject: 'hello world!',
text: 'hello world!'
});
}).listen(8080);
However, it's not working. I got an email by Google saying :
Google Account: sign-in attempt blocked
If this was you
You can switch to an app made by Google such as Gmail to access your account (recommended) or change
your settings at https://www.google.com/settings/security/lesssecureapps so that your account is no
longer protected by modern security standards.
I couldn't find a solution for the above problem on the nodemailer GitHub page. Does anyone have a solution/suggestion ?
Thanks! :-)
The answer is in the message from google.
Go to : https://www.google.com/settings/security/lesssecureapps
set the Access for less secure apps setting to Enable
For the second part of the problem, and in response to
I'm actually simply following the steps from the nodemailer github page so there are no errors in my code
I will refer you to the nodemailer github page, and this piece of code :
var transporter = nodemailer.createTransport({
service: 'Gmail',
auth: {
user: 'gmail.user#gmail.com',
pass: 'userpass'
}
});
It differs slightly from your code, in the fact that you have : nodemailer.createTransport("SMTP".
Remove the SMTP parameter and it works (just tested). Also, why encapsulating it in a http server? the following works :
var nodemailer = require('nodemailer');
var transporter = nodemailer.createTransport({
service: 'Gmail',
auth: {
user: 'xxx',
pass: 'xxx'
}
});
console.log('created');
transporter.sendMail({
from: 'xxx#gmail.com',
to: 'xxx#gmail.com',
subject: 'hello world!',
text: 'hello world!'
});
Outdated: refreshToken and accessToken no longer exist in JSON file output
For those who actually want to use OAuth2 / don't want to make the app "less secure", you can achieve this by
Search "Gmail API" from the google API console and click "Enable"
Follow the steps at https://developers.google.com/gmail/api/quickstart/nodejs. In the quickstart.js file, changing the SCOPES var from ['https://www.googleapis.com/auth/gmail.readonly'] to ['https://mail.google.com/'] in the quickstart js file provided as suggested in troubleshooting at https://nodemailer.com/smtp/oauth2/
After following the steps in (2), the generated JSON file will contain the acessToken, refreshToken, and expires attributes needed in the OAuth2 Examples for Nodemailer
This way you can use OAuth2 authentication like the following
let transporter = nodemailer.createTransport({
service: 'Gmail',
auth: {
type: 'OAuth2',
user: 'user#example.com',
clientId: '000000000000-xxx0.apps.googleusercontent.com',
clientSecret: 'XxxxxXXxX0xxxxxxxx0XXxX0',
refreshToken: '1/XXxXxsss-xxxXXXXXxXxx0XXXxxXXx0x00xxx',
accessToken: 'ya29.Xx_XX0xxxxx-xX0X0XxXXxXxXXXxX0x',
expires: 1484314697598
}
});
instead of storing your gmail password in plaintext and downgrading the security on your account.
i just set my domain to: smtp.gmail.com and it works. I am using a VPS Vultr.
the code:
const nodemailer = require('nodemailer');
const ejs = require('ejs');
const fs = require('fs');
let transporter = nodemailer.createTransport({
host: 'smtp.gmail.com',
port: 465,
secure: true,
auth: {
user: 'xxx#gmail.com',
pass: 'xxx'
}
});
let mailOptions = {
from: '"xxx" <xxx#gmail.com>',
to: 'yyy#gmail.com',
subject: 'Teste Templete ✔',
html: ejs.render( fs.readFileSync('e-mail.ejs', 'utf-8') , {mensagem: 'olá, funciona'})
};
transporter.sendMail(mailOptions, (error, info) => {
if (error) {
return console.log(error);
}
console.log('Message %s sent: %s', info.messageId, info.response);
});
my ejs template (e-mail.ejs):
<html>
<body>
<span>Esse é um templete teste</span>
<p> gerando com o EJS - <%=mensagem%> </p>
</body>
</html>
Make sure:
install ejs: npm install ejs --save
install nodemailer: npm install nodemailer --save
ping to smtp.gmail.com works: ping smtp.gmail.com
change xxx#gmail.com to your gmail email
change yyy#gmail.com to the email that you want to send a email
Enable less secure apps
Disable Captcha temporarily
have a nice day ;)
While the above answers do work, I'd like to point out that you can decrease security from Gmail by the following TWO steps.
STEP #1
Google Account: sign-in attempt blocked If this was you You can switch to an app made by Google such as Gmail to access your account (recommended) or change your settings at https://www.google.com/settings/security/lesssecureapps so that your account is no longer protected by modern security standards.
STEP #2
In addition to enabling Allow less secure apps, you might also need to navigate to https://accounts.google.com/DisplayUnlockCaptcha and click continue.
You only need App password for google auth, then replace your google password in your code.
go here https://myaccount.google.com/apppasswords
sample code:
const nodemailer = require('nodemailer');
var transporter = nodemailer.createTransport({
service: "Gmail",
auth: {
user: 'example#gmail.com',
pass: 'app password here'
}
});
transporter.sendMail(option, function(error, info){
if (error) {
console.log(error);
} else {
console.log('Email sent: ' + info.response);
}
});
For debugging purpose it is handy to implement a callback function (they never do on the nodemailer github page) which shows the error message (if there is one).
transporter.sendMail({
from: from,
to: to,
subject: subject,
html: text
}, function(err){
if(err)
console.log(err);
})
It helped me solve my problem... Turns out newer versions are not working properly:
"Looks like nodemailer 1.0 has breaking changes so 0.7 must be used instead: http://www.nodemailer.com/
Message posted on nodemailer as of 12/17/15:
Do not upgrade Nodemailer from 0.7 or lower to 1.0 as there are breaking changes. You can continue to use the 0.7 branch as long as you like. See the documentation for 0.7 here."
I found this answer here
And install smtp module as dependency:
npm install smtp
var nodemailer = require('nodemailer');
var transporter = nodemailer.createTransport({
service: 'gmail',
type: "SMTP",
host: "smtp.gmail.com",
secure: true,
auth: {
user: 'writeYourGmailId#gmail.com',
pass: 'YourGmailPassword'
}
});
var mailOptions = {
from: 'xyz.khan704#gmail.com',
to: 'azran.khan704#gmail.com',
subject: 'Sending Email to test Node.js nodemailer',
text: 'That was easy to test!'
};
transporter.sendMail(mailOptions, function(error, info){
if (error) {
console.log(error);
} else {
console.log('Email sent');
}
});
Go to https://myaccount.google.com/lesssecureapps
and change it ON because
Some apps and devices use less secure sign-in technology, which makes your account more vulnerable. You can turn off access for these apps, which we recommend, or turn on access if you want to use them despite the risks.
You should not use gmail password for it anymore!
Recently google has provided a new method to use in 3rd party apps or APIs. You need to use App Password instead of the gmail password. But for creating it, you need to enable 2-step Authentication mode in your google account:
You can find steps here: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/185833?hl=en
try this code its work for me.
var http = require('http');
var nodemailer = require('nodemailer');
http.createServer(function (req, res) {
res.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'text/plain'});
var fromEmail = 'akarthi#xyz.com';
var toEmail = 'akarthi#xyz.com';
var transporter = nodemailer.createTransport({
host: 'domain',
port: 587,
secure: false, // use SSL
debug: true,
auth: {
user: 'fromEmail#xyz.com',
pass: 'userpassword'
}
});
transporter.sendMail({
from: fromEmail,
to: toEmail,
subject: 'Regarding forget password request',
text: 'This is forget password response from your app',
html: '<p>Your password is <b>sample</b></p>'
}, function(error, response){
if(error){
console.log('Failed in sending mail');
console.dir({success: false, existing: false, sendError: true});
console.dir(error);
res.end('Failed in sending mail');
}else{
console.log('Successful in sending email');
console.dir({success: true, existing: false, sendError: false});
console.dir(response);
res.end('Successful in sending email');
}
});
}).listen(8000);
console.log('Server listening on port 8000');
response:
Successful in sending email
{ success: true, existing: false, sendError: false }
{ accepted: [ 'akarthi#xyz.com' ],
rejected: [],
response: '250 2.0.0 uAMACW39058154 Message accepted for delivery',
envelope:
{ from: 'akarthi#xyz.com',
to: [ 'akarthi#xyz.com' ] },
messageId: '1479809555147-33de4987-29d605fa-6ee150f1#xyz.com' }
Adding to xShirase answer just providing screenshots where to enable. Also confirm in security that previous attempt was from you.
Xshirase deserves all upvotes.Iam just showing screenshot.
Here is best way send email using gmail
const transporter = nodemailer.createTransport({
service: 'gmail',
auth: {
user: '******#gmail.com',
pass: '**********',
},
});
use two authentication from google => security => app password and do fill some stuff get app password