Error: connect ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:465 nodemailer

Question

I was using my gmail account to send an smtp alert messages to my users email . Example, registration or account blocked etc. I am using a nodemailer and was email were sent

Answer 1

I have faced the same error, this worked for me

try {
            var transporter = nodemailer.createTransport({
                service: 'gmail',
                port:465,
                secure: true, // true for 465, false for other ports
                logger: true,
                debug: true,
                secureConnection: false,
                auth: {
                    user: 'test@gmail.com', // generated ethereal user
                    pass: '*****', // generated ethereal password
                },
                tls:{
                    rejectUnAuthorized:true
                }
            })

         var info = await transporter.sendMail({
                from: 'myuser@outlook.com', // sender address
                to: 'anotheruser@hotmail.co.uk', // list of receivers
                subject: 'Test Email', // Subject line
                text: 'Hello world ?' // plain text body
                html: output, // html body
        });
        }
       catch(error) {
                console.log(error)
       }

Answer 2

Thank you for your time guys. Below is what works for me .

nodemailer.createTransport('smtps://user%myDomain.com:pass@smtp.gmail.com');

changed to

var smtpConfig = {
    host: 'smtp.gmail.com',
    port: 465,
    secure: true, // use SSL
    auth: {
        user: 'user@myDomain.com',
        pass: 'pass@pass'
    }
};
var transporter = nodemailer.createTransport(smtpConfig);

I Found the example above on the doc https://github.com/nodemailer/nodemailer . I am suspecting this may happened to you if your password contained @ symbol considering u and the smtps link. Its therefore advisable to split it into an object without the @ symbol interfering with your smtps url. This is my guess thought. Nonetheless the above solution works for me. Plus don't forget to allow less secure apps from your google console.

Answer 3

Adding a config for Bluehost for anyone using it.

let transporter = nodemailer.createTransport({
    host: 'box1109.bluehost.com',
    port: 465,
    secure: true,
    auth: {
        user: 'someusername@somewebsite.com',
        pass: 'yourpassword'
    }
});

You can verify the options using the verify() method.

transporter.verify((err, success) => {
    if (err) console.error(err);
    console.log('Your config is correct');
});

If you are experiencing this error, make sure that the host property is set properly.

console.log(transporter.options.host);

I spent 20 minutes on this error to find out that the host property was undefined (I was using an environment variable to port it into the config).

Answer 4

I was using secure: false and I faced the same issue on production and below was the solution that worked for me:

const transporter = nodemailer.createTransport({
  host: <hostname>,
  port: 25,
  secure: false,
  logger: true,
  debug: true,
  ignoreTLS: true // add this 
});

Hope this will help someone.