Unable to use gmail SMTP
gmail, node.js, smtp
Solution
A couple things:
- Your code as written will throw an interpreter error and not run. (No quotes around an email address, for instance.)
- That library hasn't been updated in a while. I highly recommend the actively-developed and similarly-named Nodemailer library that has shorthand for common services such as gmail's SMTP.
Full Disclosure: I contributed the Amazon SES functionality to Nodemailer (though a recent rewrite of the underlying architecture from 0.1.x to 0.3.x means I don't show up on `git blame`, anymore).
EDIT: I took a closer look at your code. Assuming you don't have the typos in your actual code, I suspect the following line is the culprit: `this.now.successfullySent(result);`
Basically, the callback function's `this` is not what you think it is. You'll want to cache the `this` object in its scope by assigning it to a variable like `self`. (Assuming we're not dealing with a problem in the underlying library.)
Problem
I am trying to use gmail smtp using `node_mailer`. I get following error on my nodejs logs (using nodester). Here is my code: ``` var email = require('mailer'); email.send({ host : "smtp.gmail.com", port : "465", ssl : true, domain : "domain.com", to : "emailId@gmail.com", from : "email@gmail.com", subject : "You have been registered", body: "<B>Hello! This is a test of the node_mailer.</B>", authentication : "login", // auth login is supported; anything else is no auth username : /* username */, password : /* password */ }, function(err, result){ if(err){ self.now.error(err); console.log(err); return;} else this.now.successfullySent(result); }); ``` I am not getting any error in the stack but email is not getting delivered. @work4liberty and @David Ellis. Thanks for both of yours inputs but it seems that the problem was not with my server code, I was sending incorrect value in emailId from my client-side javascript. `Nodemailer` did help me debug the issue with correct text in error.