Nodemailer with ZOHO mail

Question

I'm trying to setup ZOHO mail with Nodemailer. The mail is configured correctly and I'm using following code to send the mail:

var transporter = nodemailer.createTransport({
    host: 'smtp.zoho.eu',
    port: 465,
    secure: true, //ssl
    auth: {
            user:'[email protected]',
            pass:'supersecretpassword'
    }
});


sendMail = function(req,res) {


var data = req.body;

transporter.sendMail({
    from: data.contactEmail,
    to: '[email protected]',
    subject: data.contactSubject,
    text: data.contactMsg
});

res.json(data);

};

I contacted official support but no response so far. Maybe someone here has experience with it. The problem is that when using these settings I get a message that relaying is disallowed for the address in variable 'data.contactEmail'. When I change the from e-mail also to [email protected] I do receive the e-mail but of course I do not know who sent it and can't reply to it.

Anyone who knows how to make the 'from' address work with unknown addresses? Like [email protected] ?

Answer 1

Solution :

You should make an email account for your server : [email protected]

When you are going to relay the mail craft a custom MAILBODY containing the subject and message

var MAILBODY ='\n[suject]:\n'+data.contactSubject+'\n\n[msg]:\n'+data.contactMsg;

So you will be sending the original contactEmail as the subject of the mail and using the mail's text (body) to se the message subject and the message content.

transporter.sendMail({
    from: '[email protected]',
    to: '[email protected]',
    subject: data.contactEmail,
    text: MAILBODY
});

Reason of Solution :

Example bot account will be able of sending the email to yourself with all the details you really need. (because you control that email account / your domain)