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Asked: 2026-06-02T16:31:34+00:00

I am trying to use gmail smtp using node_mailer . I get following error

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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.

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  1. Editorial Team

    A couple things:

    1. Your code as written will throw an interpreter error and not run. (No quotes around an email address, for instance.)
    2. 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.)

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