Not able to connect to outlook.com SMTP using Nodemailer

Question

I am creating the transport object like this.

var transport = nodemailer.createTransport(\"SMTP\", {
        host: \"smtp-mail.outlook.com\", // hostname
                


        

Answer 1

I was having the same issue until I stumbled upon https://github.com/andris9/Nodemailer/issues/165

Try adding the tls cipher option to use SSLv3.

var transport = nodemailer.createTransport("SMTP", {
    host: "smtp-mail.outlook.com", // hostname
    secureConnection: false, // TLS requires secureConnection to be false
    port: 587, // port for secure SMTP
    auth: {
        user: "user@outlook.com",
        pass: "password"
    },
    tls: {
        ciphers:'SSLv3'
    }
});

Alternatively, for hotmail/live/outlook you can simply use

var transport = nodemailer.createTransport("SMTP", {
    service: "hotmail",
    auth: {
        user: "user@outlook.com",
        pass: "password"
    }
});