Sending email via Node.js using nodemailer is not working

Question

I\'ve set up a basic NodeJS server (using the nodemailer module) locally (http://localhost:8080) just so that I can test whether the server can actually send ou

Answer 1

For debugging purpose it is handy to implement a callback function (they never do on the nodemailer github page) which shows the error message (if there is one).

transporter.sendMail({
    from: from,
    to: to,
    subject: subject,
    html: text
}, function(err){
    if(err)
        console.log(err);
})

It helped me solve my problem... Turns out newer versions are not working properly:

"Looks like nodemailer 1.0 has breaking changes so 0.7 must be used instead: http://www.nodemailer.com/

Message posted on nodemailer as of 12/17/15:

Do not upgrade Nodemailer from 0.7 or lower to 1.0 as there are breaking changes. You can continue to use the 0.7 branch as long as you like. See the documentation for 0.7 here."

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