Nodemailer: ECONNREFUSED

Question

I don't know what I'm missing, I use the Nodemailer example:

var nodemailer = require("nodemailer");

// create reusable transport method (opens pool of SMTP connections)
var smtpTransport = nodemailer.createTransport("SMTP",{
    service: "Gmail",
    auth: {
        user: "[email protected]",
        pass: "userpass"
    }
});

// setup e-mail data with unicode symbols
var mailOptions = {
    from: "Fred Foo ✔ <[email protected]>", // sender address
    to: "[email protected], [email protected]", // list of receivers
    subject: "Hello ✔", // Subject line
    text: "Hello world ✔", // plaintext body
    html: "<b>Hello world ✔</b>" // html body
}

// send mail with defined transport object
smtpTransport.sendMail(mailOptions, function(error, response){
    if(error){
        console.log(error);
    }else{
        console.log("Message sent: " + response.message);
    }

    // if you don't want to use this transport object anymore, uncomment following line
    //smtpTransport.close(); // shut down the connection pool, no more messages
});

I just changed the user and pass in auth to my gmail account info (also tried with their values), and I changed the "to" email address to my email address. I get:

{ [Error: connect ECONNREFUSED]
  code: 'ECONNREFUSED',
  errno: 'ECONNREFUSED',
  syscall: 'connect' }

What am I missing? I don't see anything in the documentation that says I need to do anything more than this, so why won't it work? Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

It was a firewall issue. Turns out there was nothing wrong with the code, I just didn't understand what the error message implied.

Answer 2

Following step:

1. Login gmail account.

2. Enable pop3 in settings tabs

3. Enable less secure apps at: Enable less secure apps for gmail account

4. Display Unlock Captcha at: Display unlock Captcha

5. Defined email option and sending

   var mailOptions = {
       host: 'smtp.gmail.com',
       port: 465,
       secure: true, // use SSL
       auth: {
           user: '[email protected]',
           pass: 'password'
       }
   }    
   
   mailer = nodemailer.createTransport(mailOptions);
   
   mailer.sendMail({
   ....
   }, function(err, response) {
           if (err) {
                console.log(err);
           }
           console.log(response);
   });
   

Hope this block code help you.