Use Smtp Client To Send Email Without Providing Password

I'm using nodemailer to try to send an email to myself via commandline: var nodemailer = require('nodemailer'); // config var smtpConfig = { host: 'smtp.myhost.com', port:

Solution 1:

Try port 587.

Here are my gmail settings.

smtpServerName="smtp.gmail.com" 
portNumber="587" 
authenticationMode="SSL" 
smtpUserName="somebody@gmail.com" 
smtpUserPassword="xxxxxxxxxx"

I would experiment with ssl: false and ssl: true

nodemailer.SMTP = {
    host: 'smtp.gmail.com',
    port: 587,
    ssl: false,
    use_authentication: true,
    user: 'my.username@gmail.com',
    pass: 'my.password'
}

Make sure you read this:

https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/6010255

It looks like there are two ways with gmail.

Port 587 is (non ssl) but with TLS.

Port 465 is SSL (but not TLS).

Go figure.

    //singleServer = new SmtpServerSettings("smtp.gmail.com",
    //      "myname@gmail.com", "587", AuthenticationType.Basic,
    //    "myname@gmail.com", "mypassword", "");

    //singleServer = new SmtpServerSettings("smtp.gmail.com",
    //      "myname@gmail.com", "465", AuthenticationType.SSL,
    //      "myname@gmail.com", "mypassword", "");