Username and Password not accepted when using nodemailer?

Question

This is my settingController:

var sendSmtpMail = function (req,res) {
  var transport = nodemailer.createTransport({
  service:\'gmail\',
   auth: {
                 


        

Answer 1

If you have enabled 2-factor authentication on your Google account you can't use your regular password to access Gmail programmatically. You need to generate an app-specific password and use that in place of your actual password.

Steps:

• Log in to your Google account
• Go to My Account > Sign-in & Security > App Passwords
• (Sign in again to confirm it's you)
• Scroll down to Select App (in the Password & sign-in method box) and choose Other (custom name)
• Give this app password a name, e.g. "nodemailer"
• Choose Generate
• Copy the long generated password and paste it into your Node.js script instead of your actual Gmail password. (You don't need the spaces.)

Your script will now look like this:

var transporter = nodemailer.createTransport({
  service: 'gmail',
  auth: {
    user: 'YOUR-GMAIL-USERNAME@gmail.com',
    pass: 'YOUR-GENERATED-APP-PASSWORD'
  }
});

I hope this helps someone.