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

And install smtp module as dependency:

npm install smtp

var nodemailer = require('nodemailer');

var transporter = nodemailer.createTransport({
  service: 'gmail',
  type: "SMTP",
  host: "smtp.gmail.com",
  secure: true,
  auth: {
    user: 'writeYourGmailId@gmail.com',
    pass: 'YourGmailPassword'
  }
});

var mailOptions = {
  from: 'xyz.khan704@gmail.com',
  to: 'azran.khan704@gmail.com',
  subject: 'Sending Email to test Node.js nodemailer',
  text: 'That was easy to test!'
};

transporter.sendMail(mailOptions, function(error, info){
  if (error) {
    console.log(error);
  } else {
    console.log('Email sent');
  }
});

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